Donald Trump wins the first round against the environmentalists campaigning to prevent a proposed £1bn golf resort from destroying a part of Britain’s most remarkable coastlines.

The Telegraph reports the local planning committee voted 7 - 4 in favour of US tycoon Donald Trump’s plan to wipe out a pristine Aberdeenshire seaside stretch by developing two championship courses, almost 1,000 holiday homes, 500 private houses and an eight-storey hotel.

Apparently, one local farmeris making a stand against the proposed golf resort by refusing the money Donald Trump has offered. The local farmer a local farmer is refusing to sell his 25 acres on the site of one of the courses proposed for the Menie estate, near Balmedie village.

The David versus Goliath fight is reminiscent of the award-winning 1983 film, Local Hero, about an oil refinery threat to a Scottish beauty spot.

But looking at the coastline photographs where the proposed golf resort will be built, it looks very much like the money made from tourism and the local jobs created by the golf resort will give a much needed boost the local Aberdeenshire economy.