More Delays Feared After Tram 'Judge' Backs Foreign Contractors

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A NEW tram row blew up yesterday after developers of the scheme in the Scottish capital lost another round of their long-running legal battle with contractors.

An independent adjudicator has ruled against city council-owned TIE, the former Transport Initiatives Edinburgh, over GBP100,000 of disputed work near Haymarket. Sources close to TIE were reported to have claimed the decision meant the tram line builders could "hold the city to ransom" by downing tools every time a dispute arose over the cost of work.

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More Delays Feared After Tram 'Judge' Backs Foreign Contractors

However, sources close to the construction consortium, which comprises German firms Bilfinger Berger and Siemens and Spanish tram bu...

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