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A Scottish engineering firm has gone into administration, less than a week after revealing it was owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by collapsed construction giant Carillion.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland understands 160 workers at Vaughan Engineering have already been sent home.

West Lothian-based Vaughan employed 90 people at its Broxburn site and 70 at bases in Warrington and Newcastle.

KPMG were appointed as administrators on Wednesday.

Last Friday, the family-owned mechanical and electrical building services company warned it was in danger of collapse, saying it was owed more than £600,00 for work as a principal sub-contractor on several projects run by Carillion.

It had also been contracted to complete a further £1.1m of work in the first three months of this year.

Carillion went into liquidation in January, after talks between the company, its creditors and the UK government failed.