The seven-year-old hospital no one's even sneezed in.. GLASGOW HERALD CBI ready to extend 5% a voluntary I price restraint

Marathon Police inquiry at take-over held up But CARIE, Our oh weeds gro Hag ad he teep hospital Dundee, following or William Hamilton MP's appeal in the Commons for the hospital to be included in the Fraud Squad investigations into the Poulson bankruptcy. The multi-million pound construction has been Include it in fraud probe-MP SEVEN YEARS after SEVEN YEARS after the building of Dun- the building of Dundee's Ninewells hospital began, only the laundry and engineering workshops are in action and the cost has skyrocketed from £10m to an estimated £18.2m.

Now Fife's Labour No Clyde Marathon jobs on THE FIRST batch of 151 workers to be sacked from the Clydebank yard of the now defunct Upper Clyde Shipbuilders will not start work again on Monday as planned.

The Communist Party-led shop stewards' committee at the yard had accepted the redundancies in return for a promise from the TexasPRINT WORKERS from the occupied Briant Colour Printing plant in the Old Kent Road will stage a demonstration in London today. They will assemble at Temple Gardens, near Temple Tube, at 2.30 p.m. and march along Fleet Street to Clerkenwell Green. The Briant men have been in control of their premises for more than a month after being told the factory was facing bankruptcy and the staff was being made redundant. This week the firm's main creditor, paper merchants Robert Horne, threatened! to take legal action against the Work-in. NATES PAPERBACKS CENTRE 28 Charlotte St London W1 Ninewells urged MP William Hamilton has received an anonymous letter alleging that servants two toP have been in- LOC Scottish civil oeen volved with the hospital builders, Crudens Ltd.

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George Pottinger, permanent secretary at the Scottish Office, was suspended last week for Monday based Marathon Manufacturing Co to rehire the men after the end of the Glasgow Fair (holidays).

But the promise depended on a f12m handout from Tories ... and now the aid has hit a snag.

The Industry Bill under which the money was to be given has been overtaken by the parliamentary timetable and fears are growing that it will not become BEA EWSPAPERS Britain's major companies are to he asked to hold price increases to below for another three months when the voluntary price restraint initiative ent end of this month.

The Confederation of British Industry decided this resterdas after discussion be their executive council, and sent memorandum to Anthony Barher. Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Last night Mir Barher the natonalised san.mous wat the.e nad haen majord sappore a: he dustries would try 1o suncil meeting. hold their price increases In a starement the council • Ihe same leve.

aerced : he extensing had Treasury slatement, these not icen me expectalion that ethers hostlie! industrics teen con- willing or pite reframing aflation. intention that they will conThe council welcomed the ance of the priate sector. resumption tinue to match one peer"The Guernment we com: Trades I nion Congress and extensin of the (Bl. and summit price restraint scheme whin inc Can erament.

Thes thai Mr MICHAEL CL bould standing for seven years, but it has never seen a patien 'Herald' reports that only the laundry and engineering worl are operating. So who was it built for? And why has it been used when there is a shortage of hospitals?

This alleged conne his alleged connections with Yorkshire architect with Yorkshire arc John Poulson. Iohn Poulson.

Since their relationship began in 1960, when Pottinger was under Secretary at the Scottish Home Department, Poulson handed him £21,419 and a Rover car, it was revealed at Poulson's bankruptcy.

TURN TO p.10 law until after parliament's summer recess.

If the worst happens these men could be unemployed until October. The CP Stalinists will almost certainly sidestep the problem by allowing the men to 'work in' and paying them out of the fighting fund.

We understand the enabling legislation for the f12m is still in committee stage and MPs are due to go off on holiday on August 10.

Liquidator Robert C. Smith has sent letters to the men informing them not to report for work on Monday because their jobs 'will not be available'.

Yard convenor Bob Dickie immediately met Marathon's president-elect James Fox, but the new chief of the company's UK operations said he could not comment until he returned from a visit to the US.

The stewards are trying to arrange a meeting with the liquidator to clarify the position.

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