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A construction boss said the leak-plagued £36 million Blairgowrie Recreation Centre may have been deliberately sabotaged. A series of faults and leaks led to the Beeches Road building’s completion being delayed by 34 weeks. This week, the project’s construction director Paul Carle told elected members “minor unexplained penetrations of the liner” could have been “malicious” damage. Mr Carle said: “Potentially it could have been damage - malicious - but I don’t know that for sure and it’s very, very difficult to pinpoint who/what done that. “They [the holes/tears] were identified through the recommissioning process and repaired. “I don’t think there’s any detriment to the pool at all but disappointing that we had to deal with it nonetheless but to say who or what did that I

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