Date: 21/02/2011

Public funding to support new rail freight schemes won a last-minute reprieve as MSPs agreed Scotland’s budget for next year. The minority SNP government had planned to freeze the freight facilities grant (FFG), which is designed to help curb lorry movements. [From Richard Buckby]

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