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Politics
Chris McCall

MP demands answers over public cash handed to Dawnfresh weeks before firm entered administration

A Labour MP has written to Nicola Sturgeon to demand answers over why public cash was awarded to a seafood firm just weeks before it entered administration.

Dawnfresh was allocated a £1 million business grant by the Scottish Government in December last year to help expand its existing base in Arbroath - but the company never took the cash.

The fish processing company was suddenly placed in administration on March 1 - which caused 200 staff to be made redundant at its other factory in Uddingston, North Lanarkshire.

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