Wrong Side of a Hole

This film begins with an American billionaire coming out of the scottish sky and ends with the potential victims of his vanity gazing into the sunset, pondering on their fate.

In between, the story of a golf course development and the huge issues that are at stake, not just for the homeowners immediately threatened with eviction, but for everybody concerned about the balance between private capital and public interest.

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The trump Invasion

The Trump team marched into Michael Forbes farm with an army of heavy machinery and claimed some of his land. The new strategy for the Trump team is to intimidate the families living at Menie and this is sadly just one of many recent events.

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Boycott the Course

A LEADING figure in the golf world, who edits one of the sport’s top magazines with a readership around 500,000, is calling for a boycott of Donald Trump’s Scottish course.

Bill Elliott – editor-at-large of Golf Monthly – has vowed never to set foot on the course after watching the documentary You’ve Been Trumped, broadcast by the BBC in October.

And the influential chairman of the Association of Golf Writers urges the publication’s readers to do the same, saying: “I suggest you join me.”

The move was criticised last night by the Trump Organisation, which accused Mr Elliott of a “lack of editorial integrity” and claimed his position was “based upon a second-hand source that is a gross distortion of the truth”.

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Molly Forbes Interview

Find out the real story from the words of great grandmother and threatened resident Molly Forbes.

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Michael Forbes is Top Scot

An Aberdeenshire farmer who fought a long-running battle against American billionaire developer Donald Trump, has been named Top Scot at a high profile awards ceremony.

Michael Forbes took the honour at the Spirit of Scotland Awards where he was praised for his stance against the tycoon’s north-east golf development.

Mr Forbes won the Top Scot prize at the Glenfiddich Spirt of Scotland ceremony in Edinburgh.

Donald Trump once branded the farmer’s property, which borders the Menie Estate, as a slum.

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Trump’s Golf Course Opens for Business

Two of Scotland’s top golfers teed off with Donald Trump at the opening of his controversial £1bn golf course in Aberdeenshire today, despite calls for a boycott from conservationists.

The Scottish Wildlife Trust wrote an open letter urging golfers Colin Montgomerie, Paul Lawrie and Martin Laird not to play at the Trump International Golf Links course at Menie Estate on the grounds it was built on “a unique, protected area” with “nationally important landforms and wildlife”. Lawrie was unable to attend because of bad weather.

The course is situated on a stretch of 4,000 year-old coastal sand dunes that make up a section of the Foveran Links Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), a status that should protect the site from development. Despite fierce protest from environment groups, Trump was given the go-ahead for “stabilisation” of the dunes to construct the resort in 2008, as Scottish ministers deemed the economic benefits to outweigh the environmental costs.

An action group, Tripping Up Trump, has supported local residents opposed to the construction, and a film company called Montrose Pictures produced a documentary following the development. You’ve Been Trumped was shown in cinemas in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London last weekend to coincide with the course’s opening. A trailer for the film places footage of Trump stating “we’ve had tremendous support from the environmental groups”, alongside a spokesperson for the RSPB explaining that “the whole package is wrong”.

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The Bunker

The Bunker is a plot of land slap bang where Donald Trump wants to build his golf course.

Sign up for free and be part of the plot. Join us in The Bunker.

Stand with the local families of Menie who face eviction from their homes because of Donald Trump’s demand of Aberdeenshire Council to use compulsory purchase orders.

Trump said he didn’t need this land, but now he’s after the homes of local families and they won’t sell.

74% of Scottish people are against Trump on this basis. Just 13% support him. Over 15,000 of us have already signed a petition to Aberdeenshire Council in opposition.

Let’s stand up to the bully and stop the evictions.

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Wind Farm News

The American billionaire is at loggerheads with First Minister Alex Salmond over the 11-turbine development near his Aberdeenshire golf resort and the Government’s broader drive on renewables.

 

Mr Trump’s £10 million Menie Estate course opened in July but his plans for a hotel and homes in the area have been put on hold until a final decision is made on the wind farm proposal.

 

Ministers have yet to decide whether the turbines at the European Offshore Wind Development Centre (EOWDC), to be positioned 0.6 miles from the golf resort, can be built.

 

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The Wrong Side of a Hole

This film begins with an American billionaire coming out of the scottish sky and ends with the potential victims of his vanity gazing into the sunset, pondering on their fate.

In between, the story of a golf course development and the huge issues that are at stake, not just for the homeowners immediately threatened with eviction, but for everybody concerned about the balance between private capital and public interest.

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