PLANS BY the US billionaire tycoon Donald Trump for a highly controversial hotel and golf resort on Scotland's north-east coast look likely to be blocked by the local council.
An investigation by the Sunday Herald has discovered that a majority of Aberdeenshire's councillors are currently opposed to moves to force four families from their homes on the Menie estate near Balmedie in order to make way...
Just when we thought Donald Trump and his organisation could stoop no lower, the news that he may ask Aberdeenshire Council to secure land from owners at Menie by compulsory purchase should be an affront to all fair-minded people.
The legislation covering the use of compulsory purchase powers states that these should be used only where "the needs...
ONE of the five home-owners facing possible eviction to pave the way for Donald Trump's £1 billion golf resort yesterday accused the tycoon of planning to "steal" his land in a modern-day version of the Highland Clearances.
David Milne, who is refusing to sell his cottage home overlooking the area where the main championship course would be built, has written to all 68 members of Aberdeenshire...
AN MSP has accused the Trump Organisation of "morally unacceptable" behaviour in the growing row over the possible use of compulsory purchase orders to force families from their homes for a £1 billion golf resort.
American tycoon Donald Trump has already come under fire from local protestors for planning a modern day "Highland Clearance" of land around the Menie Estate development site, following the...
AN ABERDEENSHIRE councillor at the centre of a row over access at tycoon Donald Trump’s Scottish estate has been cleared of any wrongdoing by a public watchdog.
Debra Storr had said that the Trump Organisation was breaching access laws by locking the gates to Menie Estate, in Balmedie.
The Aberdeenshire councillor also claimed the estate staff had unlawfully...
