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Stop Trump campaign brings up the big guns
Wednesday, 11 August, 2010 - 23:25

The billionaire Donald Trump last week clashed with protesters opposed to his controversial plans to build the "world's greatest golf course" near Aberdeen. Quarry worker Michael Forbes, who is refusing to sell his property which adjoins the £750m scheme, claims Mr Trump's workers unlawfully annexed his land.

The clash is the latest skirmish in an increasingly bitter battle to prevent Mr Trump from developing the site. More than 7,000 local people have signed up to join the "bunker", co-owners of an acre of land sold by Mr Forbes to...

'Trump's men grabbed my land' - Forbes
Thursday, 5 August, 2010 - 22:41

The increasingly bitter war of words between Donald Trump and his kilted nemesis, Michael Forbes, reached new heights yesterday.
In an astonishing attack, Mr Forbes, the salmon fisherman who has been branded a "village idiot" by the American tycoon, accused the Trump Organisation of illegally "grabbing" the land where his family have dried their salmon nets for generations.

Mr Forbes, one of a handful of residents on the Menie Estate at Balmedie who are refusing to sell their homes to make way for Mr Trump's £750 million golf...

Ugly New Tist In Trump Campaign To Force Residents From Their Homes
Thursday, 5 August, 2010 - 19:47
PRESS STATEMENT:

Donald Trump's campaign to drive residents on the Menie estate from their homes took a new turn this week.

On Tuesday (3 August) men and heavy machinery went onto Michael Forbes' farm and claimed an area of land as Mr Trump's. The Trump workers started taking all of the Forbes’ property off the land. The police accompanied the Trump team, but would not act in stop the event taking place, claiming their role was not to enter into civil disputes.

No warning had been given...

Sales slow at Trump Hollywood
Wednesday, 4 August, 2010 - 23:24

Only 16 sales have closed in nearly a year at the 200-unit Trump Hollywood luxury condominium, according to an analysis of property records by CondoVultures.com.

Last August, developer Jorge Perez said he had lined up buyers for more than two-thirds of the condos at the 40-story oceanfront project he built with celebrity developer Donald Trump.

Peter Zalewski, principal of CondoVultures.com, said similar developments along Hollywood beach are selling for an average of nearly $400 a square foot. But the average price per square...

Donald Trump: Not in my back yard
Tuesday, 27 July, 2010 - 16:52

Donald Trump was branded a “hypocrite” yesterday after it emerged he is fighting the expansion of an airport near his Florida mansion.

Opponents of the American businessman’s £750million Aberdeenshire golf resort yesterday criticised Mr Trump’s “astonishing brass neck”.

The US property magnate’s team has vigorously campaigned for the expansion of Aberdeen Airport since his golf plans were announced in 2006.

Independent councillor Martin Ford, whose casting vote initially threw out the Trump organisation’s plans for the...

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