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Thursday, 4 March, 2010 - 20:06

The frontwoman for Donald Trump's golf resort in Scotland said problems involved with bringing his £1 billion vision to reality were "like a red rag to a bull" for the tycoon.

Sarah Malone, vice-president of Trump International Golf Links Scotland, said the American businessman had been warned about the planning challenges and sensitivities involved with creating a championship golf course at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire.

But she said they had only made him more determined to create "the world's greatest golf course"...

Wednesday, 24 February, 2010 - 20:10
Council accused over Trump school sponsorship

Aberdeenshire Council has been accused of breaking its own rules on commercial sponsorship by allowing Donald Trump to fund sport and nature activities at a local primary school.

The US property tycoon has helped pay for a football strip bearing his name and a climbing wall for Balmedie school. The school is near where he plans to build his controversial £1 billion golf, hotel and housing resort...

Sunday, 21 February, 2010 - 11:21

Donald Trump has told Tiger Woods that he should end his marriage, write it off as a “bad experience” and become an international playboy.

The businessman, who wants to build the world’s best golf course at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, stunned television viewers in America yesterday by claiming the golfer should “say bye-bye” and move on.

Mr Trump, who has been married three times, said the best thing Woods could do now was get back to the sport which made him a multimillionaire.

“Tiger’s a friend of mine and I...

Wednesday, 17 February, 2010 - 19:43
Donald Trump's masterplan for ‘world's greatest golf course' in Scotland

The American tycoon Donald Trump today revealed his masterplan for “the greatest golf course in the world” to be built on a windswept stretch of Scottish coastline.

The controversial proposals — first mooted more than three years ago — also include a new village, complete with shops, pubs and cafes.

Trump International Scotland received outline planning...

Wednesday, 17 February, 2010 - 19:39
Donald Trump ignores homes as golf vision unveiled

The furore over the threat of families being forced from their homes to pave the way for Donald Trump's £1 billion golf resort was re-ignited yesterday after the tycoon's master plan for the controversial development was finally published.

The 1,000-page document, detailing how Trump plans to transform the Menie links in Aberdeenshire into the "world's greatest golf course", was handed to...

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