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Highland Council are proposing to build a new road – the West Link [broken link Oct 2024]- to provide a southern bypass for Inverness and allow traffic travelling from the A82 to the A9 and vice-versa to avoid the town
Continue readingIt is a truism that much of the controversy over Donald Trump’s Golf Course has arisen because of the things he has done and the things he has said. Reports from the press conference at Aberdeen Airport yesterday talked of
Continue readingAt 1:42 in this video [broken link – Sep 2024], we are treated to the economic arguments for the Donald Trump golf course at Menie Estate. Bob Collier of Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce makes a startling claim. “Why
Continue readingJust last week, I was discussing the question of Donald Trump’s golf course with a senior Scottish politician. He was curious as to whether I thought it was actually going to be completed. I said that I doubted it and
Continue readingI receive regular emails and letters from people on land matters. Quite often, folk will write with tales of how they or their community are having problems with landowners. I thought I should begin to share some of these to
Continue readingEddie Mabo (1936 – 1993) pictured above, left. On 3 June, 1992, the High Court of Australia ruled that the doctrine of terra nullius was a legal fiction and that the native people had good title which pre-dated European conquest.
Continue readingReforesting Scotland is planning to launch an exciting campaign to celebrate, protect, expand and enjoy the world of hutting in Scotland. For decades, ordinary people have enjoyed the freedom to enjoy the countryside in simple huts. However, too many have
Continue readingOn 5 March 2011, I was honoured to be invited to speak at the Aye Write book festival in Glasgow on a platform with Ray Perman, author of The Man Who Gave Away His Island. Our event had to be
Continue readingMy report on Donald Trump’s golf course is now published.
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News reaches me today that a number of petitioners including Clydeport Operations Limited have lodged a Notice of Termination in the Greenock Telegraph on 21st April to seek the termination (under Section 20(1) of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003)
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