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Tram chiefs in dispute over revealing final cost of project

Officials in charge of Edinburgh’s crisis-hit tram project are locked in an internal feud over whether to come clean about how much it will eventually cost.

Senior council officials are understood to be at odds with the arm’s-length company overseeing development of Scotland’s biggest transport infrastructure project over proposals to borrow in excess of its £545 million budget to ensure that it is completed.