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Tuesday, 1 June, 2010 - 22:22
Trump may pursue housing laws over golf 'slum'

The Trump Organisation has said it may ask Aberdeenshire Council to use housing laws to get a homeowner to tidy up his property.

Donald Trump sparked a row last week by claiming Michael Forbes - who refuses to sell his home at the site of the American tycoon's golf resort plan - lived in a "slum".

Mr Forbes said Mr Trump's opinion "meant nothing" to him.

The Trump Organisation...

Sunday, 30 May, 2010 - 23:41

I mean strange, unusual, exceptional. Then I struggle to imagine another national community, anywhere, that has co-operated so willingly in its own rebranding as the Scots. We are the only people to possess a smart word for humiliation. A brand is not a handbag, or designer specs. It’s a hot iron on your hide, something planted on the herd. Or – if madam prefers – a cute plaid imprint on the flesh. Available as a tea towel.

Tartan is a thing Scots allowed when they had a stab at becoming North Britons. They thereafter chose to...

Friday, 28 May, 2010 - 13:33
Film-maker joins fight to land Donald Trump in a bunker

The film-maker David Puttnam has joined a campaign supporting the "local hero" landowner who refuses to sell his home and land in the middle of Donald Trump's planned golf resort.

Lord Puttnam has emerged as one of 60 co-owners of an acre of land beside the home of Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon fisherman who has been under intense pressure from the...

Wednesday, 26 May, 2010 - 20:27
New protest amid Donald Trump's arrival over golf plan
TRUMP PLANS "WILL END IN THE BUNKER"

www.thebunker.org.uk

Local residents have made preparations ahead of Donald Trump's visit today to the site of his proposed golf course in Aberdeenshire - preparations which will ensure once and for all that his project...

Friday, 21 May, 2010 - 23:48

Plans for a £150million offshore windfarm near Aberdeen took a major step forward yesterday after harbour bosses and helicopter firms dropped their safety objections.

Industry body Oil & Gas UK and Aberdeen Harbour Board said they were satisfied the scheme would not pose a risk after the company behind it agreed to site the 11 turbines away from the city’s port towards an area off Blackdog.

The latest boost for the project was announced at a breakfast to mark the start of the All-Energy show in Aberdeen by Iain Todd,...

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