On 22 May 2003, the receivers marched into the foyer of one of Scotland's major PFI contractors: Melville Dundas had fallen in the water. The ripples are still washing up the beaches of Edinburgh and Glasgow. A lot of people got wet. One of the projects that stopped dead that day, was a neat housing complex at Ayr Road, Whitecraigs. Melville Dundas was the design-and-build contractor for developer George Wimpey. And it so happens that a Wimpey cheque for £400,000 was just about to be posted to the contractor. The appearance of the receivers put a stop to that. It doesn't take too much guile to work out that hanging on to that £400,000 will help to get the Whitecraigs homes finished by a replacement builder.
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