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Pressure grows on Holyrood chief

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2003 / November 30

One of Scotland's most senior civil servants is under pressure to resign over new evidence which suggests he interfered with the Holyrood design competition to promote Enric Miralles, the eventual winner. Lord Fraser's inquiry into the spiralling cost of the Ł400m building will hear next week how John Gibbons, the government's chief architect and a member of the judging panel, ordered Miralles's bid to be reinstated after it failed to make a short list of entries.

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