You've Been Trumped

0:00:20 > 0:00:21CAR HORN HONKS

0:00:23 > 0:00:25If you ever get to the States, give me a call.

0:00:25 > 0:00:27Oh, thank you very much.

0:00:33 > 0:00:34Breakfast ready, Gordon?

0:00:34 > 0:00:37- We've a problem.- Why?- The beach, Ben's beach.- What's the problem?

0:00:37 > 0:00:39The problem is, it really is Ben's beach.

0:00:39 > 0:00:40TELEPHONE RINGS

0:00:40 > 0:00:43He owns the shoreline, four miles of it, from the grass down to the low-tide mark.

0:00:43 > 0:00:47- I found it in the parish records when I was checking out some title deeds.- Can he prove it?

0:00:47 > 0:00:51- We can't steal the beach from him, Victor, it's his. - We'll have to buy it from him.

0:00:58 > 0:01:01'Donald Trump has arrived in Scotland to talk about his plans

0:01:01 > 0:01:05'for what he claims will be the world's greatest golf course.

0:01:05 > 0:01:06'Donald Trump swept into the northeast

0:01:06 > 0:01:09'on his usual wave of publicity.

0:01:09 > 0:01:11'His private jet touched down at Aberdeen airport

0:01:11 > 0:01:14'just after ten o'clock this morning...

0:01:14 > 0:01:17'Earlier, it's emerged protesters have bought small plots of land

0:01:17 > 0:01:19'in a bid to block the controversial development.

0:01:19 > 0:01:24'Michael Forbes is, of course, the farmer who refuses to sell to Trump.'

0:01:24 > 0:01:27It's my home. I've stayed here for 43 years now,

0:01:27 > 0:01:29and he won't put me out of it.

0:01:30 > 0:01:33'Mr Trump said the development could still go ahead

0:01:33 > 0:01:34'without the farmer's land.'

0:01:34 > 0:01:41Because if we build a 300 or 400 million dollar hotel,

0:01:41 > 0:01:45I don't think you want the windows looking down into a slum.

0:01:45 > 0:01:47'Donald Trump will be here for two days.

0:01:47 > 0:01:50'He says he'll be examining every square foot

0:01:50 > 0:01:53'to make sure his final designs are perfect.'

0:02:03 > 0:02:05OWL HOOTS

0:03:11 > 0:03:13COCK CROWS

0:03:13 > 0:03:16I usually get up about seven and let the cat out.

0:03:16 > 0:03:21And, in these dark mornings, I just nip back to bed again

0:03:21 > 0:03:23and turn on the TV,

0:03:23 > 0:03:25and lie till about, say, half past seven,

0:03:25 > 0:03:28get ready and start my porridge.

0:03:29 > 0:03:32Yes, that's for the hens.

0:03:32 > 0:03:35Sometimes I keep out...

0:03:35 > 0:03:37if I'm going to have something with tatties,

0:03:37 > 0:03:40I keep out a couple for myself.

0:03:43 > 0:03:44SHE CHUCKLES

0:03:44 > 0:03:45They are very good tatties.

0:03:47 > 0:03:48Just nearly there.

0:03:53 > 0:03:54COCK CROWS

0:03:54 > 0:03:56Before, I used to count.

0:03:56 > 0:04:00And the fox just nipped off the lot.

0:04:05 > 0:04:09RADIO: '..Like to ask a question with regard to..."

0:04:09 > 0:04:11It's all talking on that station.

0:04:11 > 0:04:14And the fox thinks there's people about,

0:04:14 > 0:04:17because they don't like people.

0:04:17 > 0:04:19SHE CHUCKLES

0:04:21 > 0:04:23They're just lovely.

0:04:24 > 0:04:25They're old ladies.

0:04:28 > 0:04:30Got an egg.

0:04:30 > 0:04:32How many do you get a day?

0:04:32 > 0:04:34Oh, well, sometimes two,

0:04:34 > 0:04:37sometimes one, sometimes none.

0:04:46 > 0:04:48Sure you know, guys, you...

0:04:48 > 0:04:50don't rush forward,

0:04:50 > 0:04:51you'll get all the shots you want.

0:04:51 > 0:04:54Mr Trump will spend time with you afterwards as well.

0:04:57 > 0:05:00If you spread out, guys, you'll get the best view.

0:05:00 > 0:05:01Give my pipers a bit of space.

0:05:01 > 0:05:04BAGPIPES START PLAYING

0:05:23 > 0:05:25Hello, everybody.

0:05:34 > 0:05:37Better believe it. Good.

0:05:37 > 0:05:39And everyone knows Martin Hawtree.

0:05:39 > 0:05:41He's the architect of the site.

0:05:41 > 0:05:43How are you? Nice to see you.

0:06:20 > 0:06:26I was born on the farm that I worked on during the war.

0:06:26 > 0:06:28But I wasn't brought up on that farm,

0:06:28 > 0:06:31because my father was a lorry driver.

0:06:31 > 0:06:33Well, he was actually a ploughman in his younger day.

0:06:35 > 0:06:38There's a ploughing match, now, my father did ploughing.

0:06:38 > 0:06:39That's my father.

0:06:42 > 0:06:45He was a prize plougher. My father.

0:06:45 > 0:06:48He has lots of cups and medals.

0:06:48 > 0:06:51We used to go and watch them.

0:06:51 > 0:06:53I know my father's style of ploughing.

0:06:53 > 0:06:56See how he is, look.

0:06:56 > 0:06:57See, he's over, bent.

0:07:01 > 0:07:02This is where we lived.

0:07:02 > 0:07:06That's the shop at Whitecairns, which is no more.

0:07:06 > 0:07:08And there's the Daniel's buses.

0:07:14 > 0:07:17My eyes aren't as good as they used to be.

0:07:23 > 0:07:27When I was here first, it was March we saw them.

0:07:27 > 0:07:29And then, last year, it was February.

0:07:29 > 0:07:33That's two there that used to come every year.

0:07:33 > 0:07:38And we knew it was the same two because of its long neck.

0:07:38 > 0:07:41They are beautiful birds.

0:07:41 > 0:07:43CHATTER

0:07:45 > 0:07:49..I'm shaking hands with people and I said, "Whoa."

0:07:49 > 0:07:51LAUGHTER

0:07:53 > 0:07:56Miss Scotland. Come here a minute.

0:07:56 > 0:07:59So you won't be going to the Miss Universe Pageant in...

0:07:59 > 0:08:01And who's going, who's going?

0:08:01 > 0:08:03- How do you rate her? Good?- Yeah.

0:08:03 > 0:08:05- You think she's good?- Yeah.

0:08:07 > 0:08:08I don't know, I'd need to...

0:08:08 > 0:08:09SHE LAUGHS

0:08:10 > 0:08:11Are you from this area?

0:08:18 > 0:08:19Thank you.

0:08:25 > 0:08:29BAGPIPES PLAY

0:08:51 > 0:08:54There are so many familiar faces from the press

0:08:54 > 0:08:56who've really been amazing supporters of the project.

0:08:56 > 0:09:00This is really a circle of our friends. This was really a celebration of our friends.

0:09:00 > 0:09:04A celebration of people that supported us.

0:09:04 > 0:09:06It was spectacular for me yesterday

0:09:06 > 0:09:09to be able to walk the final version of the course with my father,

0:09:09 > 0:09:12to say, you know, "This is now what we are doing.

0:09:12 > 0:09:16"This is what will be etched into this land for ever."

0:09:16 > 0:09:20As Lord Provost of the city, yesterday, it was my pleasure

0:09:20 > 0:09:23to welcome these two gentlemen.

0:09:23 > 0:09:24We look at the plans that you've got

0:09:24 > 0:09:29to produce this absolutely outstanding golf course.

0:09:29 > 0:09:33The excitement in this is absolutely, outstandingly wonderful.

0:09:33 > 0:09:35Any questions, gentlemen?

0:09:35 > 0:09:37Very nice question.

0:09:37 > 0:09:40Mr Trump, what would you say to the many local residents here

0:09:40 > 0:09:45who feel that you've run roughshod over planning legislation

0:09:45 > 0:09:49and environmental issues simply because you've got lots of money?

0:09:49 > 0:09:52It's a very interesting question,

0:09:52 > 0:09:57because, honestly, this is a very popular project.

0:09:57 > 0:09:59We've had great support from the council

0:09:59 > 0:10:02and great support from the political leaders.

0:10:02 > 0:10:06We've saved the dunes, and, from an environmental standpoint,

0:10:06 > 0:10:11it's a much better situation than it was before we bought the site.

0:10:11 > 0:10:13You can sometimes see the deer.

0:10:13 > 0:10:16You know, coming out of these trees across there.

0:10:16 > 0:10:20They jump the fence no problem.

0:10:20 > 0:10:22So beautiful.

0:10:24 > 0:10:27I know they're wild, but they're not too scared.

0:10:27 > 0:10:32You know, they just seem to...put up with us.

0:10:35 > 0:10:37- Do you want me to face forward maybe?- Yeah.

0:10:37 > 0:10:38Watch this.

0:10:43 > 0:10:45What was the first thing he said to you?

0:10:45 > 0:10:47"Give this man a job," he says.

0:10:47 > 0:10:49Give this man a job. I says, "I've got a job."

0:10:52 > 0:10:54Then he kept saying it, three times he said it, "Give this man a job."

0:10:54 > 0:10:57I says, "I've got a bloody job! I don't want a job."

0:10:57 > 0:10:58THEY LAUGH

0:10:58 > 0:11:01Keep this short, ladies and gentlemen, the rain's coming.

0:11:01 > 0:11:02Give me an umbrella.

0:11:07 > 0:11:10No, I'm just, you see, I happen to be a very truthful person.

0:11:10 > 0:11:13His property is terribly maintained.

0:11:13 > 0:11:15It's slum-like, it's disgusting.

0:11:15 > 0:11:17He's got stuff thrown all over the place.

0:11:17 > 0:11:20He lives like a pig. And I did say that.

0:11:20 > 0:11:22And I'm an honest guy.

0:11:22 > 0:11:25And I speak honestly, and I think that's why some people like me

0:11:25 > 0:11:27and some people probably don't like me.

0:11:27 > 0:11:30But I think he'd do himself a great service if he fixed up his property.

0:11:30 > 0:11:33And I'm not talking money, it's not a question of money,

0:11:33 > 0:11:35it's a question of a little manual labour.

0:11:43 > 0:11:46I says, "That explains everything on his shed." Just take a look.

0:11:46 > 0:11:49"He's nothing but a compulsive liar." That's what I said, aye.

0:11:53 > 0:11:56Mr Trump, if you had a message for Michael Forbes this afternoon,

0:11:56 > 0:12:00- what would it be? - No. I have no message.

0:12:00 > 0:12:02- I don't speak to him. - You quite enjoy it.

0:12:02 > 0:12:05And feel that, in the end, your sort of power and money will win out.

0:12:05 > 0:12:08No. I don't view it as power and money.

0:12:08 > 0:12:10I think that principle will win out.

0:12:10 > 0:12:14But my people made deals with him on two occasions.

0:12:14 > 0:12:18My representatives have absolutely made two deals that he broke.

0:12:18 > 0:12:20So he knows that.

0:12:20 > 0:12:22His people know that, whoever his people may be.

0:12:34 > 0:12:35Oh, well...

0:12:35 > 0:12:38Nobody's complained about it up to now, eh?

0:12:43 > 0:12:47He passed us this morning and just flew on

0:12:47 > 0:12:50in his top-of-the-range Range Rover with blacked out windows.

0:12:50 > 0:12:54Oh, I missed getting a super photo of him the first time he arrived here.

0:12:54 > 0:12:55The wind got him on the escarpment.

0:12:55 > 0:12:59And I thought the press would have loved that, I could have sold that picture for a fortune.

0:12:59 > 0:13:01His hair was sticking out like that.

0:13:04 > 0:13:06You know, the whole lacquered thing had come off,

0:13:06 > 0:13:10where it's all wound around, and was out to a point.

0:13:10 > 0:13:12Damn it.

0:13:13 > 0:13:18This is my husband's hat, aboard this boat.

0:13:18 > 0:13:21He was chief petty officer on deck.

0:13:21 > 0:13:24It's a bit dusty.

0:13:29 > 0:13:32There he is, look, under the red umbrella.

0:13:32 > 0:13:35Where he is just now,

0:13:35 > 0:13:37which is just looking slightly to the right,

0:13:37 > 0:13:40is where he was hoping to put in the clubhouse.

0:13:40 > 0:13:42And where he was going to put it in, it tends to flood,

0:13:42 > 0:13:47because the water all runs down off the land into there.

0:13:47 > 0:13:50So have difficulty putting a clubhouse there

0:13:50 > 0:13:51unless it's on stilts.

0:13:55 > 0:13:59My father, he sang songs that you never hear of today.

0:13:59 > 0:14:01And he used to sing a song,

0:14:01 > 0:14:05"You'll never miss the water till the well runs dry."

0:14:05 > 0:14:08Which is a very true saying, isn't it?

0:14:24 > 0:14:26It really shouldn't matter

0:14:26 > 0:14:28if the applicant is Mother Theresa of Calcutta

0:14:28 > 0:14:31and she wants to carry out the development

0:14:31 > 0:14:33in order to raise money to help the sick.

0:14:33 > 0:14:34Or indeed even if it's Donald Trump.

0:14:38 > 0:14:42The permission isn't to the person, it's to the land.

0:14:44 > 0:14:46CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:14:54 > 0:14:57I'd now like to welcome a representative

0:14:57 > 0:15:01from the Green Party to the stage - local councillor Martin Ford.

0:15:01 > 0:15:03CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:15:04 > 0:15:07Thank you very much. For those of you who don't know,

0:15:07 > 0:15:09in Aberdeenshire, we have a council

0:15:09 > 0:15:11who gives Donald Trump everything he asks for,

0:15:11 > 0:15:12and can't make up their minds

0:15:12 > 0:15:16whether to throw people out of their own homes to help him.

0:15:17 > 0:15:19Firstly, I think it's important

0:15:19 > 0:15:22for people not from the northeast of Scotland

0:15:22 > 0:15:23to have some sense of the build-up.

0:15:28 > 0:15:32In 2006, I think that was the first official state visit

0:15:32 > 0:15:34by Mr Trump to Scotland.

0:15:34 > 0:15:37'His plan is for the Menie Estate at Balmedie, near Aberdeen.

0:15:37 > 0:15:39'On it, he will create two golf courses,

0:15:39 > 0:15:41'a 450-bedroom hotel

0:15:41 > 0:15:45'and housing, as well as holiday apartments and golf villas.

0:15:45 > 0:15:47'An investment of £1 billion.'

0:15:49 > 0:15:53'Multimillion-pound golf resort in Aberdeenshire is rejected.

0:15:53 > 0:15:56'The chairman of a committee of Aberdeenshire councillors

0:15:56 > 0:15:59'used his casting vote after a three-hour meeting was deadlocked.'

0:15:59 > 0:16:03All the parties had committed themselves to sustainable development.

0:16:03 > 0:16:06And you could apply the tests of sustainable development

0:16:06 > 0:16:07to the Trump proposal.

0:16:07 > 0:16:10And it failed them. It failed them in spades.

0:16:10 > 0:16:13'The Trump Organization has confirmed

0:16:13 > 0:16:14'it will now pull out of Scotland

0:16:14 > 0:16:18'after bitter rejection at Balmedie.'

0:16:18 > 0:16:19We are very disappointed.

0:16:19 > 0:16:22Ultimately, we can go and develop the project somewhere else.

0:16:22 > 0:16:24We'll be fine.

0:16:24 > 0:16:26I think it's the people of Aberdeen and the shire

0:16:26 > 0:16:28that were really let down by their council today.

0:16:28 > 0:16:32It was predicated on long-distance tourism.

0:16:32 > 0:16:35It was predicated on people flying across the Atlantic

0:16:35 > 0:16:38to play a few games of golf and flying back across the Atlantic.

0:16:38 > 0:16:40It was predicated on utilising

0:16:40 > 0:16:42an irreplaceable and diminishing resource

0:16:42 > 0:16:45of, effectively, natural habitat.

0:16:47 > 0:16:51'Mr Trump also reiterated his concern about a proposal

0:16:51 > 0:16:54'to build an offshore wind farm close to his site.'

0:16:54 > 0:16:56When I look out on to the ocean

0:16:56 > 0:16:59from the 18th hole of Trump International Golf Links,

0:16:59 > 0:17:02to be honest with you, I want to see the ocean.

0:17:02 > 0:17:04I don't want to see windmills.

0:17:07 > 0:17:09Good evening. There's renewed hope tonight

0:17:09 > 0:17:11that American tycoon Donald Trump's plans

0:17:11 > 0:17:14for a £1 billion golf development in Aberdeenshire

0:17:14 > 0:17:16will go ahead.

0:17:16 > 0:17:19In a dramatic twist, the Scottish Government have called in

0:17:19 > 0:17:21the controversial planning application,

0:17:21 > 0:17:25taking it out of Aberdeenshire Council's hands.

0:17:25 > 0:17:28'Never before has an application been called in in this manner...'

0:17:28 > 0:17:31By calling in an application that had already been refused,

0:17:31 > 0:17:33it's inescapable that the government has, in some way,

0:17:33 > 0:17:37expressed the view that it does not want the application refused.

0:17:42 > 0:17:43'Today, almost two years on

0:17:43 > 0:17:46'from when he first announced his proposals,

0:17:46 > 0:17:49'the Scottish Governments have given the tycoon the green light.'

0:17:49 > 0:17:50Well, I think the message would be

0:17:50 > 0:17:54I'm going to build for the people of Scotland the greatest golf course

0:17:54 > 0:17:56anywhere in the world, there'll be nothing like it.

0:17:56 > 0:17:59And it's going to be done environmentally perfect.

0:17:59 > 0:18:01'The Menie Estate is in the constituency

0:18:01 > 0:18:04'of First Minister, Alex Salmond.'

0:18:04 > 0:18:07The balance of opinion among people in the northeast of Scotland

0:18:07 > 0:18:09and among my constituents is very strongly in favour.

0:18:09 > 0:18:12And that's because we can see the social and economic benefits.

0:18:12 > 0:18:14I mean, 6,000 jobs across Scotland.

0:18:14 > 0:18:191,400 local and permanent jobs here in the northeast of Scotland.

0:18:19 > 0:18:21That's a very powerful argument.

0:18:21 > 0:18:25I think that outweighs the environmental concerns.

0:18:25 > 0:18:26There's not many people

0:18:26 > 0:18:29looking to invest £1 billion in this local economy.

0:18:29 > 0:18:32It's right in keeping with our development strategy

0:18:32 > 0:18:35that inward-bound tourism is key for the city and shire.

0:18:35 > 0:18:36That's what we're here to support.

0:18:36 > 0:18:39And in partnership with Mr Trump, I believe we can do that together.

0:18:39 > 0:18:42I thought it was the biggest thing that had happened

0:18:42 > 0:18:45in the northeast since oil was discovered.

0:18:47 > 0:18:50- No, no, CPO! - ALL: You will be the next to go!

0:18:50 > 0:18:57Early in 2009, Mr Trump's legal people approached the council

0:18:57 > 0:19:00with suggestions as to how they might justify to councillors

0:19:00 > 0:19:03the use of compulsory purchase.

0:19:03 > 0:19:07'The Trump Organization have asked the council to consider using CPOs,

0:19:07 > 0:19:10'and councillors decided it was inappropriate

0:19:10 > 0:19:12'to reject the use of compulsory purchase orders

0:19:12 > 0:19:14'without a full report.'

0:19:14 > 0:19:17It leaves a big cloud over our heads, that's all it does.

0:19:17 > 0:19:19Disappointment mixed with fury, to be quite honest.

0:19:19 > 0:19:23This is an action of people with no conscience and no willpower.

0:19:23 > 0:19:26This is typical of the sort of thing that we get.

0:19:26 > 0:19:27Oh, it's very typical.

0:19:27 > 0:19:30It's very typical for councillors like yourself

0:19:30 > 0:19:34to defer decisions that are critical to people's livelihoods.

0:19:34 > 0:19:36And you failed. You failed.

0:19:36 > 0:19:39'I am thrilled with the outcome.

0:19:39 > 0:19:43'They continue to diminish the importance and nonsensical motions

0:19:43 > 0:19:45'put forth by Mr Ford,

0:19:45 > 0:19:47'and, hopefully, these will be the last few minutes

0:19:47 > 0:19:49'of his political career.

0:19:49 > 0:19:50'Because I think he's blown

0:19:50 > 0:19:52'virtually everything he's ever touched.'

0:19:52 > 0:19:56Since that time, the residents at Menie,

0:19:56 > 0:19:57in their own homes,

0:19:57 > 0:20:01have been living with the threat of the possibility

0:20:01 > 0:20:06that they would be forced to leave them against their will.

0:20:09 > 0:20:14- Just bang the window. - Jesus, how do you do business with someone who doesn't have a door?

0:20:14 > 0:20:16I look at his place, and it's a pigsty.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18Do I regret that? No, I don't regret, it's a pigsty.

0:20:18 > 0:20:20It turns out, actually, we've got a collection

0:20:20 > 0:20:22of remarkable principled people,

0:20:22 > 0:20:24who have recognised what's right and what's wrong.

0:20:24 > 0:20:26And have said they are not standing for wrong.

0:20:26 > 0:20:28Ben,

0:20:28 > 0:20:30what we wanted to ask you...

0:20:32 > 0:20:35Have you ever thought about moving?

0:20:36 > 0:20:37Um... No.

0:20:37 > 0:20:40You see, the thing is, I'm still working the place myself.

0:20:40 > 0:20:42It's my living.

0:20:46 > 0:20:50All my relations have been salmon fishing all their lives.

0:20:54 > 0:20:57My great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, all my uncles,

0:20:57 > 0:20:59they're all salmon fishers.

0:20:59 > 0:21:03It's just in the blood, you know, you just have to do it.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06I was 14 and half, I went down to fish with my uncle

0:21:06 > 0:21:08when I left school.

0:21:08 > 0:21:10I worked with him for a few years

0:21:10 > 0:21:12and I went trawling.

0:21:12 > 0:21:14Everybody knew everybody, you know.

0:21:14 > 0:21:17All the salmon fishers knew everybody. It was great.

0:21:25 > 0:21:27It was cotton nets back then.

0:21:27 > 0:21:30They rotted quick, so they had to make a lot of nets.

0:21:30 > 0:21:32These new ones, they're made of plastic, polythene,

0:21:32 > 0:21:35they last a lot longer and they are lighter, you know.

0:21:35 > 0:21:38So you needed a full crew to work the old nets, you know.

0:21:40 > 0:21:42This boat this size here, you'd have needed

0:21:42 > 0:21:45probably six, six men to pull one of these nets up.

0:21:45 > 0:21:48Now you can do it with two, you know.

0:22:15 > 0:22:17Still am, I still am fishing.

0:22:18 > 0:22:20I haven't done it for the last couple of years,

0:22:20 > 0:22:22because I've been bothered by my back.

0:22:22 > 0:22:25But I'll get going again next year.

0:22:30 > 0:22:32I have to tow my boat down to the beach.

0:22:32 > 0:22:34It's not like here you come out of a harbour.

0:22:34 > 0:22:36I have to launch it off the beach.

0:22:36 > 0:22:40Well, I have nets on the beach, stake nets, you know,

0:22:40 > 0:22:44and I'll be towing anchors through his golf course as well, because that's how we do it.

0:22:44 > 0:22:47We just tow the anchors, we don't lift them onto trailers and things.

0:22:49 > 0:22:50I'm looking forward to it.

0:22:50 > 0:22:52HE CHUCKLES

0:22:54 > 0:22:57A lot of local people don't see Michael as a particular problem.

0:22:57 > 0:22:59They see him as someone

0:22:59 > 0:23:02who is standing up for what is rightfully his.

0:23:02 > 0:23:05And they don't believe all the claptrap

0:23:05 > 0:23:11that Trump's PR machine put out about a hard-nosed farmer.

0:23:15 > 0:23:18You know, he's standing up for what's his.

0:23:18 > 0:23:21Why shouldn't he? Why wouldn't he? You know.

0:23:22 > 0:23:25This is, actually, zoned for the housing.

0:23:26 > 0:23:30On the crest of that hill, between David Milne's property there,

0:23:30 > 0:23:37is going to be the eight-storey blocks of time-share apartments.

0:23:37 > 0:23:42My house, originally a coastguard station, built in 1954,

0:23:42 > 0:23:45but there's been a station here since about 1860 something.

0:23:45 > 0:23:48There's a row of five cottages, here to my right.

0:23:48 > 0:23:51They are coastguard cottages.

0:23:51 > 0:23:54The occupants were originally workers in the coastguard.

0:23:56 > 0:23:58So if, when you look at the drawings,

0:23:58 > 0:24:01you see something that looks like a crashed space shuttle...

0:24:03 > 0:24:05..that's the hotel.

0:24:08 > 0:24:10And where my home is, is meant to be a car park.

0:24:12 > 0:24:15The buildings that you see, just a little further over there,

0:24:15 > 0:24:18the other side of the green field, that's Mike Forbes' place.

0:24:18 > 0:24:21Again, under threat of compulsory purchase.

0:24:21 > 0:24:23Down below here, this white building,

0:24:23 > 0:24:25that's the home of the Munro family.

0:24:25 > 0:24:28Again, under compulsory purchase threat.

0:24:28 > 0:24:31"No compulsory purchase, no more Trump lies,"

0:24:31 > 0:24:33on the top of the postcard.

0:24:33 > 0:24:37"The hoose down the road to the dunes

0:24:37 > 0:24:39"where once you could roam free."

0:24:47 > 0:24:51'I've been here a long time, near on three decades, that's a long time.

0:24:51 > 0:24:53'Most of my adult life has been spent in this house.

0:24:53 > 0:24:56'I've brought my family up here. Findlay was born here.'

0:24:56 > 0:25:00Here he is. Hi, pet.

0:25:00 > 0:25:02'And then, this man, this foreigner comes in,'

0:25:02 > 0:25:06and because he's got a few pounds, they reckon, in his pocket,

0:25:06 > 0:25:10a bit of a name, and we're just cast aside, we're in the way.

0:25:10 > 0:25:14I think it's an awful way to treat people.

0:25:14 > 0:25:17That was just when we moved here, I was expecting Findlay -

0:25:17 > 0:25:19he was, as I say, born here, so...

0:25:19 > 0:25:21As you can see, the difference from a few years.

0:25:21 > 0:25:26This was taken in excess of 25 years ago.

0:25:26 > 0:25:29Me with the children and my mother, paddling.

0:25:29 > 0:25:31Oh, it was just glorious.

0:25:33 > 0:25:37You realise what you've got and what's going to be taken away.

0:25:39 > 0:25:41Are you going to Cruden Bay?

0:25:41 > 0:25:44Maybe I should take a cruise up in the old Zodie.

0:25:44 > 0:25:49MUSIC: "Janie Jones" by The Clash

0:25:51 > 0:25:54Well, I'd just left art college in 1974.

0:25:54 > 0:25:59And I moved to London. It's where I continued my relationship

0:25:59 > 0:26:01with, at that time, John Mellor,

0:26:01 > 0:26:04who most people know as Joe Strummer.

0:26:05 > 0:26:10Having extricated myself from the music industry,

0:26:10 > 0:26:14I chanced to meet Kim, my partner.

0:26:15 > 0:26:18It must have been worse yesterday, because the winds were terrific yesterday.

0:26:21 > 0:26:24It's a bit rough today, isn't it? So you are taking it out of the water, then?

0:26:27 > 0:26:30I used to come up here with my grandmother

0:26:30 > 0:26:32and my aunt and my cousins,

0:26:32 > 0:26:35on the bus from Aberdeen, in the mid '50s,

0:26:35 > 0:26:39with our bandy catchers, and playing commandos on those dunes.

0:26:39 > 0:26:41It was a fantastic open space

0:26:41 > 0:26:45within reach of ordinary people from Aberdeen.

0:26:45 > 0:26:51And the only wild stretch has been swallowed up by this development.

0:26:52 > 0:26:59Now, that is primarily what drives me to say it shouldn't happen.

0:27:19 > 0:27:22It's a real mosaic of habitats.

0:27:22 > 0:27:26You've got everything from open sand to shrubs to trees to wetlands.

0:27:26 > 0:27:29A greener Scotland is effectively a myth

0:27:29 > 0:27:31if something like this is allowed to happen.

0:27:31 > 0:27:34And lots of areas are either destroyed, moved around,

0:27:34 > 0:27:36sanitised, disturbed,

0:27:36 > 0:27:38and they'll be a few bits left scattered around as a kind

0:27:38 > 0:27:41of mitigation of this development,

0:27:41 > 0:27:44this very damaging two-golf-course development,

0:27:44 > 0:27:46and the whole package is wrong.

0:28:08 > 0:28:10Welcome to our little world, McIntyre.

0:28:10 > 0:28:12This is a bay in a million.

0:28:12 > 0:28:17And this harbour is a natural for blasting in the underground tanks.

0:28:23 > 0:28:25Incredibly steep, isn't it?

0:28:27 > 0:28:31These sorts of models give us vital clues to understand

0:28:31 > 0:28:34the interaction of waves on beaches,

0:28:34 > 0:28:36the interaction of the beach and the upper beach.

0:28:36 > 0:28:39And then, the availability of sand to be blown into sand dune systems,

0:28:39 > 0:28:41such as we've got on the Aberdeenshire coast.

0:28:43 > 0:28:47In Menie, what we've got is a very, very clear model

0:28:47 > 0:28:51of sand moving in a northerly direction. Crystal clear.

0:28:51 > 0:28:54That is very interesting from the point of view of science,

0:28:54 > 0:28:56from the point of view of understanding

0:28:56 > 0:28:58how our landscapes adjusts to climate change.

0:29:00 > 0:29:01It is the only one left.

0:29:01 > 0:29:03And once we've lost the only one left,

0:29:03 > 0:29:05we are dealing with essentially artificial systems.

0:29:05 > 0:29:07And the problem with artificial systems, of course,

0:29:07 > 0:29:10is that, because we've meddled with them in some way,

0:29:10 > 0:29:12we don't actually know what the forward track might be.

0:29:12 > 0:29:15These are tees that are built

0:29:15 > 0:29:17onto very steep sand dunes.

0:29:17 > 0:29:20So they will have to be built up artificially

0:29:20 > 0:29:23by movement of sand from elsewhere on the site.

0:29:23 > 0:29:26Up to eight metres vertically will have to be emplaced.

0:29:26 > 0:29:31And that will involve moving biblical amounts of sand from A to B.

0:29:31 > 0:29:35So not only do you lose the natural dynamism

0:29:35 > 0:29:38that this area is noted for scientifically,

0:29:38 > 0:29:41you will stabilise it, so you'll lose the dynamism.

0:29:41 > 0:29:46But also, you will be constructing a largely artificial sand dune environment.

0:29:48 > 0:29:50Well, I've stabilised the dunes,

0:29:50 > 0:29:53and that means the dunes will be with us for ever.

0:29:53 > 0:29:56And that's good, because dunes can be gone with the wind.

0:29:56 > 0:29:58I mean, dunes can move and shift and sometimes they do.

0:29:58 > 0:30:01But when you stabilise them, they're with you for ever.

0:30:01 > 0:30:03So I've stabilised them, and, ultimately,

0:30:03 > 0:30:06I think that's going to be a great factor

0:30:06 > 0:30:08and a great thing for Scotland and for Aberdeen.

0:30:08 > 0:30:12These wilderness environments are our equivalent, if you like,

0:30:12 > 0:30:16of the Amazon rainforest or the swamps in South America.

0:30:16 > 0:30:21Many of these wilderness environments have been lost around the world,

0:30:21 > 0:30:24and, in Britain, we've got very, very few of those left.

0:30:24 > 0:30:27And what's happening here is that we are losing yet another.

0:30:27 > 0:30:31We've had tremendous support from the environmental groups,

0:30:31 > 0:30:33so I'm very happy about that.

0:30:33 > 0:30:36I mean, we've had great, great environmental support.

0:30:36 > 0:30:38I've received many environmental awards over the years.

0:30:38 > 0:30:41I think the greatest thing I've ever done for the environment

0:30:41 > 0:30:44is what I'll be doing right here in Aberdeen.

0:30:44 > 0:30:46But when we went to our meetings,

0:30:46 > 0:30:47we had tremendous support

0:30:47 > 0:30:51from major environmentalists and environmental groups.

0:30:51 > 0:30:53Is my hair OK? It's blowing all over.

0:30:53 > 0:30:54Have a look in the lens.

0:30:54 > 0:30:57I can't see it. Do you have a mirror, Emily? Give me a mirror.

0:30:57 > 0:30:59'There are no environmental organisations that I know of

0:30:59 > 0:31:01'that favour this development.'

0:31:01 > 0:31:02Who has a mirror?

0:31:02 > 0:31:04RSPB opposed it.

0:31:04 > 0:31:08SEPA, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency,

0:31:08 > 0:31:11Scottish Natural Heritage were violently opposed to this development.

0:31:11 > 0:31:15The World Wildlife Trust were against the development.

0:31:15 > 0:31:17The Ramblers Association were against the development.

0:31:17 > 0:31:21I know of no credible environmental organisations

0:31:21 > 0:31:25that favoured such a development on environmental grounds.

0:31:33 > 0:31:36This is an accolade site. A Site Of Special Scientific Interest.

0:31:36 > 0:31:41The highest conservation accolade that this country can bestow.

0:31:41 > 0:31:45And yet, we allow a golf course to be developed on it,

0:31:45 > 0:31:48which will remove the scientific interest completely.

0:31:48 > 0:31:51And it's something of a personal tragedy

0:31:51 > 0:31:54and great sadness across the scientific community.

0:32:25 > 0:32:27It is alarming!

0:32:27 > 0:32:31Well, look what security did to me a long time ago -

0:32:31 > 0:32:36came out of nowhere, stopped my car, hands on bonnet, and I got a scare.

0:32:39 > 0:32:42They're saying that's for the lorries,

0:32:42 > 0:32:46that cars and pick-ups and everything can still use our road.

0:32:46 > 0:32:49Look, we've got a gap in the trees already.

0:32:49 > 0:32:52Well, those trees are seemingly coming down, which they shouldn't be taking down.

0:32:52 > 0:32:54They're targeting Mike Forbes.

0:32:54 > 0:32:58That's where their spring is, up in these trees.

0:32:58 > 0:33:01Mike, you are going to have problems with your water.

0:33:01 > 0:33:05I'm really horrified to see this bank. I mean, what is it?

0:33:07 > 0:33:10I think it's a road, and that these trees are coming down.

0:33:12 > 0:33:16This is absolutely horrendous.

0:33:16 > 0:33:18That will be the end of the spring.

0:33:40 > 0:33:42Who are you with?

0:33:42 > 0:33:44I'm a freelance.

0:33:44 > 0:33:46As all the rest of the press,

0:33:46 > 0:33:48anyone who comes in here, would have the...

0:33:48 > 0:33:50Do you want to turn that off or to leave it on or...?

0:33:50 > 0:33:52I'll just leave it on, yeah.

0:33:52 > 0:33:54As I'm sure you are well aware,

0:33:54 > 0:33:55we've had a lot of damage here.

0:33:55 > 0:33:57If I was causing damage...

0:33:57 > 0:33:59No, no! I'm only putting you in the picture.

0:33:59 > 0:34:02You know, I'm just basically overlooking from this bank.

0:34:02 > 0:34:05Shouldn't be any health and safety considerations, should there?

0:34:05 > 0:34:06No, no, no, no, there isn't.

0:34:06 > 0:34:09But again, I would ask you to announce yourself to the site.

0:34:09 > 0:34:11It's the wish of the clients.

0:34:11 > 0:34:13If you wish to film on site, we've no issue with it at all.

0:34:13 > 0:34:15You know, there's no problem.

0:34:17 > 0:34:19Sorry?

0:34:19 > 0:34:20I'm just freelance, yeah.

0:34:25 > 0:34:26Hi, there.

0:34:28 > 0:34:30Hello. What you doing down here?

0:34:30 > 0:34:31Just doing a bit of filming.

0:34:31 > 0:34:33If you're freelance, are you filming for yourself?

0:34:33 > 0:34:35Yeah. Just filming for myself.

0:34:35 > 0:34:37- There's a lot of publicity going on about this area just now.- Yeah.

0:34:37 > 0:34:40And a lot of this area down here is now classed as a work site.

0:34:40 > 0:34:42Yeah.

0:34:42 > 0:34:43So for health and safety reasons,

0:34:43 > 0:34:47you should really be contacting the department.

0:34:47 > 0:34:51- This is estate land...- Right. But I thought, there's not a sort of

0:34:51 > 0:34:53right to roam, is there not, in Scotland.

0:34:53 > 0:34:55There is, but not within vehicles.

0:34:55 > 0:34:56But I wasn't in a vehicle, though.

0:34:56 > 0:34:58But again...

0:34:58 > 0:35:00Excuse me one second, could you switch your camera off, please?

0:35:00 > 0:35:04But, of course, you can't cut across the dunes now,

0:35:04 > 0:35:06because they've built this road.

0:35:06 > 0:35:08That's the road they've built,

0:35:08 > 0:35:12they've laid those across the natural drainage,

0:35:12 > 0:35:14so they're trapping water all over the place.

0:35:14 > 0:35:16Look, look at that.

0:35:18 > 0:35:21It goes up and down with the tide, all this lot.

0:35:25 > 0:35:28- Oh, hello.- Hello, how are you?

0:35:28 > 0:35:30It's terrific, that water.

0:35:30 > 0:35:33Yes, well, they've virtually dammed us and they've put in that road.

0:35:33 > 0:35:36Mike's concern is, where are they going to pump it to?

0:35:38 > 0:35:40Trees suck up water, that's why the trees are planted.

0:35:40 > 0:35:43Now they've taken the trees away and buried them in a hole.

0:35:43 > 0:35:46Took 'em away and buried them in a hole. They dug a big hole over the back there.

0:35:51 > 0:35:55They took all the trees and put them in a hole and buried them.

0:35:55 > 0:35:57HE CHUCKLES

0:35:57 > 0:35:59According to my neighbour,

0:35:59 > 0:36:02he says it was 400 trees they buried over there.

0:36:06 > 0:36:07Oh, me.

0:36:07 > 0:36:11Marram grass being stripped into blocks

0:36:11 > 0:36:14and taken away in huge dumpers.

0:36:14 > 0:36:18And as you can see from the last time we were here,

0:36:18 > 0:36:21there's been vast quantity of sand taken.

0:36:21 > 0:36:23I just can't believe it.

0:36:23 > 0:36:26Be interesting to see where all this sand is coming from.

0:36:27 > 0:36:29That's the sand dunes that's driving it.

0:36:29 > 0:36:33It's the sand dunes from over there they are putting on over here.

0:36:33 > 0:36:35I didn't think they were allowed to move 'em.

0:36:37 > 0:36:39That should be on now. Yeah, that's it.

0:36:39 > 0:36:41And then, you just press that, that button there.

0:36:41 > 0:36:43Yeah, the one on the right.

0:36:43 > 0:36:46- Yeah.- So I'm filming...all this.

0:36:57 > 0:36:58To come here every day,

0:36:58 > 0:37:02you really get an idea of the destruction that's happening.

0:37:02 > 0:37:06Also notice there doesn't seem to be anybody coming down,

0:37:06 > 0:37:07checking on anything.

0:37:09 > 0:37:10There's nae naebody.

0:37:10 > 0:37:13You never see a...the only person you ever see is security,

0:37:13 > 0:37:15keeping...keeping people away, really.

0:37:50 > 0:37:51I look at Mr Forbes

0:37:51 > 0:37:54and his disgusting conditions in which he lives.

0:37:54 > 0:37:56And that people have to look at that.

0:37:56 > 0:37:59And it's about time that somebody spoke up.

0:37:59 > 0:38:02It's almost like, in fact, it is like a slum-like condition.

0:38:02 > 0:38:08For people to have to look at this virtual slum is a disgrace.

0:38:08 > 0:38:14Mr Forbes is not a man that people in Scotland should be proud of.

0:38:15 > 0:38:19Mr Forbes is not a respected man among the people that he lives with.

0:38:19 > 0:38:22I mean, people have come up to us, they've written us notes,

0:38:22 > 0:38:25they've written us letters, that this guy is all sorts of things.

0:38:25 > 0:38:28And I won't say it. They're saying it.

0:38:28 > 0:38:32Mr Forbes lives in a pig-like atmosphere. It's disgusting.

0:38:34 > 0:38:39They are really lovely, genuine, honest, authentic people.

0:38:42 > 0:38:43And they are really sincere people.

0:38:43 > 0:38:49And, yeah, an absolute pleasure to be involved in a project with them.

0:38:49 > 0:38:52David McCue, he's an artist.

0:38:52 > 0:38:54And he got in touch with me,

0:38:54 > 0:38:58asking me if it would be OK if he did an art exhibition.

0:38:58 > 0:39:00I said, "Yeah, if you like, yeah."

0:39:00 > 0:39:02So we were going to do it in a marquee tent out here.

0:39:02 > 0:39:05But he wasn't for that. He had to have it in that shed there.

0:39:05 > 0:39:07Why, I don't know, but he had to have it in that shed.

0:39:07 > 0:39:09HE CHUCKLES

0:39:09 > 0:39:11The worst shed I've got, and he had to have it in that.

0:39:11 > 0:39:12HE CHUCKLES

0:39:12 > 0:39:16I think we'll just stick with that for just now.

0:39:16 > 0:39:18I think if we put all four up...

0:39:25 > 0:39:27I love the barn,

0:39:27 > 0:39:31because the minute you started to change and put things in there,

0:39:31 > 0:39:34it kind of recontextualised the work

0:39:34 > 0:39:37in exactly the way I hoped it would do.

0:39:41 > 0:39:43It was great meeting Michael's wife, Sheila.

0:39:43 > 0:39:46Seriously, what the hell do you think you're doing?

0:39:46 > 0:39:49She's really feisty and has a great sense of humour,

0:39:49 > 0:39:52a great sense of who she is, her own kind of identity.

0:39:52 > 0:39:56Sheila chooses to sometimes be out of the limelight,

0:39:56 > 0:40:00but other times, I think it's important to hear her voice too.

0:40:00 > 0:40:02The drawing represents...

0:40:02 > 0:40:05as a metaphor for, "Behind every successful man,

0:40:05 > 0:40:07"there's a strong woman."

0:40:16 > 0:40:21I really wanted to find for myself what the truth was,

0:40:21 > 0:40:23at what was happening at that site.

0:40:23 > 0:40:26Like the security presence, for instance.

0:40:26 > 0:40:30And that is really stressful for Sheila and Michael,

0:40:30 > 0:40:31and Molly as well.

0:40:31 > 0:40:33You know, that's their homes.

0:40:33 > 0:40:36And there would just be a vehicle that would circle their land

0:40:36 > 0:40:39and stop, pause and then move off again.

0:40:39 > 0:40:41But it's intimidating.

0:40:41 > 0:40:46And I certainly felt like that the week that I was there.

0:40:49 > 0:40:54This one, for me, was very much the very typical Trump stance

0:40:54 > 0:40:56and pose that he does very often.

0:40:56 > 0:40:58It's almost like a trademark,

0:40:58 > 0:41:00the way he gestures and his body language.

0:41:00 > 0:41:03Obviously, referenced Warhol quite considerably

0:41:03 > 0:41:06with the repeat pattern of the dollar sign,

0:41:06 > 0:41:08that's like a brick wall -

0:41:08 > 0:41:10you've hit a brick wall, dead end,

0:41:10 > 0:41:12kind of scenario.

0:41:16 > 0:41:19The media has been coming down to this place,

0:41:19 > 0:41:23it's been talking about it as a slum, which it certainly isn't.

0:41:23 > 0:41:27And to be able to sort of show off the interior of that barn,

0:41:27 > 0:41:30which we've always just seen the exterior of,

0:41:30 > 0:41:34and get a real glimpse into the history, the heritage of the space.

0:41:35 > 0:41:38I glimpse out of the back square

0:41:38 > 0:41:41that looks onto all of the other properties,

0:41:41 > 0:41:43which are in a similar position

0:41:43 > 0:41:47of maybe coming under compulsory purchase.

0:41:49 > 0:41:51It was just...it was perfect.

0:41:55 > 0:41:5720 turns up, I'll be happy.

0:41:57 > 0:41:58HE LAUGHS

0:42:12 > 0:42:15CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:42:15 > 0:42:17HE LAUGHS

0:42:17 > 0:42:20It's in grossly bad taste,

0:42:20 > 0:42:23which, of course, is spot on. Yes.

0:42:23 > 0:42:25We all need a hockey stick or a baseball bat.

0:42:25 > 0:42:29I really wanted an interactive piece. That was quite important.

0:42:29 > 0:42:33That they weren't just passively, you know, looking at pieces of work.

0:42:33 > 0:42:34ALL: Yeah!

0:42:34 > 0:42:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:42:42 > 0:42:45I've seen some of them in the computer...David's computer.

0:42:45 > 0:42:47But they don't look the same in the computer.

0:42:49 > 0:42:55The Trump paintings, the accent's very much on the red. The anger.

0:42:55 > 0:42:58Whereas Michael's very much the cool blue

0:42:58 > 0:43:00and the relaxed greens

0:43:00 > 0:43:02that reflect the diversity

0:43:02 > 0:43:05of where they come from and what they mean

0:43:05 > 0:43:07and what their intentions are, you know.

0:43:08 > 0:43:12I think these intentions are very angry.

0:43:12 > 0:43:14Very self-motivated.

0:43:14 > 0:43:16Very self-interested.

0:43:22 > 0:43:26The way they display their wealth and their attitude, you know.

0:43:26 > 0:43:29It is very much a contrast with what goes on here.

0:43:29 > 0:43:32But you would expect that.

0:43:32 > 0:43:34I mean, he's an international figure,

0:43:34 > 0:43:37and Michael's a very...local figure.

0:43:37 > 0:43:41He's very much appreciated by his local friends

0:43:41 > 0:43:44and people who know him.

0:43:45 > 0:43:49A lot of local people here are certainly a lot more down to life,

0:43:49 > 0:43:53you know. I think living in the real world, you know.

0:43:53 > 0:43:57And it just shows you, you know, the support we have round about.

0:43:57 > 0:43:59..Absolute bias in favour of Trump.

0:43:59 > 0:44:05- Aye.- And reporting his negative and destructive comments about you.

0:44:05 > 0:44:08- It's very personal, isn't it? - I know, I know.

0:44:08 > 0:44:11Flying about is a most extravagant thing.

0:44:11 > 0:44:14And building a property and golf development here

0:44:14 > 0:44:16to attract American golfers

0:44:16 > 0:44:22is...is just contrary to environmental way of life

0:44:22 > 0:44:24that we will have to lead.

0:44:28 > 0:44:32It's a personal gift to Michael and Sheila.

0:44:35 > 0:44:39It feels important for me to give something to them

0:44:39 > 0:44:42for all the help that they've given me.

0:44:44 > 0:44:46Like all my paintings, I find it very difficult to talk about

0:44:46 > 0:44:49while it's in its early stages.

0:44:49 > 0:44:54Um... But it's going to be an image of Michael

0:44:54 > 0:44:56on the salmon fishing boat.

0:45:36 > 0:45:41It was a Saturday, and Michael was washing the Land Rover,

0:45:41 > 0:45:43and he also washed Sheila's car.

0:45:45 > 0:45:47And then, the hose went to a trickle.

0:45:47 > 0:45:51And he says, "Oh, the water's surely off."

0:45:51 > 0:45:55So he came over and said to me, "Be canny with your water,

0:45:55 > 0:45:57"because I think it's going off."

0:46:00 > 0:46:03You see that line of trees.

0:46:03 > 0:46:06Well, just at this end here, that's where my well is.

0:46:06 > 0:46:08Well, it's a spring-cum-well.

0:46:08 > 0:46:11As you can see, the lorry is going around there just now.

0:46:11 > 0:46:14They built the road on top of my spring.

0:46:16 > 0:46:19Well, I think my water is more important

0:46:19 > 0:46:20than his bloody road just now.

0:46:20 > 0:46:23But, uh...not to them, eh?

0:46:25 > 0:46:28I phoned up. They keep saying they are going to fix it -

0:46:28 > 0:46:29I'm still waiting.

0:46:29 > 0:46:31You'd think it'd be a priority.

0:46:36 > 0:46:38See, no water. Dry.

0:46:38 > 0:46:39How long has that been going on for?

0:46:39 > 0:46:42That's since last Saturday.

0:46:42 > 0:46:44They were digging up there on the Friday,

0:46:44 > 0:46:46and Hewison from down the road here,

0:46:46 > 0:46:48he went up and complained there was no water.

0:46:48 > 0:46:49They said they would get it fixed right away.

0:46:49 > 0:46:52Well, that's a week now I've been waiting and still haven't done it.

0:46:52 > 0:46:56I got the police down, and they won't have nothing to do with it either.

0:46:56 > 0:46:58Would be different if it was the other way around, like.

0:46:58 > 0:47:01If it was me cut off their water, I would have been charged by now.

0:47:01 > 0:47:05I'm really pissed off. I'm running out of clean clothes.

0:47:05 > 0:47:08Dishes are piling up. You know, you need water.

0:47:08 > 0:47:13I've been taking water out of the burn to have a wash in the morning.

0:47:13 > 0:47:15It's not right.

0:47:25 > 0:47:29I needed water for the hens, because they drink a lot of water.

0:47:29 > 0:47:32My plants outside and my two greenhouses.

0:47:32 > 0:47:39So I took the barrow and...I call it a "rooser", the watering can,

0:47:39 > 0:47:44and a piece of rope tied to a paint pot.

0:47:44 > 0:47:48And I dipped in the paint pot in the burn

0:47:48 > 0:47:54and filled the rooser and just rode the barrow back up again.

0:47:54 > 0:48:00And then Michael said, "There's a wee drop coming from the hose,"

0:48:00 > 0:48:06his hose, "So you'll get some for drinking."

0:48:06 > 0:48:09Nothing. Dry.

0:48:14 > 0:48:17This is just another ploy, as I say, with Trump,

0:48:17 > 0:48:19to get, to piss people off, you know.

0:48:19 > 0:48:21It's not on.

0:48:23 > 0:48:25I'm really pissed off as well

0:48:25 > 0:48:27that the police is all one-sided, you know.

0:48:27 > 0:48:31They says they're not biased - of course they are.

0:48:31 > 0:48:32HE CHUCKLES

0:48:32 > 0:48:33Yeah.

0:49:14 > 0:49:16No, I'm just trying to work out the facts, basically.

0:49:16 > 0:49:18No, it's not an angle. It's not an angle.

0:49:18 > 0:49:19I'm just trying to work out

0:49:19 > 0:49:22why if Michael has been without water for a week...

0:49:22 > 0:49:25- You know, rather than... - You know, why...?

0:50:31 > 0:50:32Yeah.

0:50:44 > 0:50:46What are we looking at over here, then?

0:50:46 > 0:50:48Quite a mess now.

0:50:48 > 0:50:51We seem to have inherited a new lake here.

0:50:51 > 0:50:55Um... Mr Trump, I don't know what he's doing.

0:50:55 > 0:50:59But he's scraped all this.

0:50:59 > 0:51:02Oh, here's the police now.

0:51:02 > 0:51:03That's the police there.

0:51:03 > 0:51:05You get a photo of them.

0:51:06 > 0:51:08'Next thing was the security van

0:51:08 > 0:51:10'comes sneaking around the corner there

0:51:10 > 0:51:13'and told the police you were over with Suzy Munro.

0:51:13 > 0:51:15'And then, they just took off up the road.

0:51:15 > 0:51:18'And before they went away, I says to them, I says,'

0:51:18 > 0:51:20"Who are you going to charge now?

0:51:20 > 0:51:23And he says, "We don't charge anybody. We're the good guys."

0:51:23 > 0:51:26With all due respect, sir, would you mind turning the camera off?

0:51:26 > 0:51:28What's it about?

0:51:42 > 0:51:45I bet you they've been on the phone about this.

0:51:45 > 0:51:47Your visit there.

0:51:48 > 0:51:50It's absolutely sickening.

0:51:51 > 0:51:55Absolutely sickening. This is what it'll have been about.

0:51:57 > 0:52:00I tell you, I hope they get on to the Environmental Health today,

0:52:00 > 0:52:03because having no water for a week and no toilets, no facilities,

0:52:03 > 0:52:05is an absolute disgrace.

0:52:05 > 0:52:08They've removed all the topsoil off the ground.

0:52:08 > 0:52:11I mean, this is almost like a flood plain.

0:52:11 > 0:52:13As you can see, with the bulrushes and everything,

0:52:13 > 0:52:15it's just marsh ground.

0:52:15 > 0:52:17And, of course, common sense would tell you

0:52:17 > 0:52:21- that the water, you know, flows down to the...flows down to the sea. - Yeah.

0:52:21 > 0:52:24Common sense would tell anybody that,

0:52:24 > 0:52:26so that's going to have to be rectified.

0:52:26 > 0:52:27I'm not...

0:52:29 > 0:52:31But, as I say,

0:52:31 > 0:52:35I think Environmental Health is the next port of call for them.

0:52:35 > 0:52:40- But we'll just have to wait and see what transpires today.- Uh-huh.

0:52:40 > 0:52:42Who's in charge between the two of you, gentlemen?

0:52:42 > 0:52:45We're just here as individuals. What are you here for?

0:52:45 > 0:52:46That's no problem.

0:52:46 > 0:52:49Um... Could I take a note of your name, please?

0:52:49 > 0:52:52- Why?- Because there's been an alleged breach of the peace

0:52:52 > 0:52:54up at the Menie Estate this morning.

0:52:54 > 0:52:55Oh, God.

0:52:55 > 0:52:57And, as such, we are making enquiries.

0:52:57 > 0:52:59So could I have your name, please?

0:53:01 > 0:53:03My name is Richard Phinney.

0:53:03 > 0:53:05OK. And yourself, sir, could I have your name, please?

0:53:05 > 0:53:07Yeah, I'm Anthony Baxter.

0:53:07 > 0:53:09'And then, he just became more hostile and more hostile

0:53:09 > 0:53:12'and lunged at you, gave you no explanation.'

0:53:12 > 0:53:14What we need to do now...

0:53:14 > 0:53:15No, you do not!

0:53:15 > 0:53:17You are being detained under Section 14

0:53:17 > 0:53:20of the Criminal Procedures Scotland Act 1995, do not...

0:53:20 > 0:53:24- What's he done? - Richard, can you grab that? Richard, grab the camera.

0:53:24 > 0:53:26Let go of the camera.

0:53:26 > 0:53:29Let go of the camera before it gets damaged, sir.

0:53:29 > 0:53:30'And then, the next thing I know,

0:53:30 > 0:53:33'you're wrestling over the bonnet of Findlay's van,

0:53:33 > 0:53:37'this policeman attacking you, trying to pull the camera off you,

0:53:37 > 0:53:39'still not giving you any reason why, what you've done.

0:53:39 > 0:53:42'I think it was totally out of order.'

0:53:42 > 0:53:44- Don't do that to me!- Right, sir, you're being detained...

0:53:44 > 0:53:46'Then, slammed the handcuffs on,

0:53:46 > 0:53:49'and I saw your wrist was grazed and everything.

0:53:49 > 0:53:51'And that was totally out of order.'

0:53:51 > 0:53:53That's disgraceful!

0:53:53 > 0:53:55Will you loosen those cuffs, please?

0:53:55 > 0:53:57Will you loosen those cuffs, please?!

0:53:57 > 0:53:59This is a very sad state of affairs.

0:53:59 > 0:54:01- They are hurting my arms. - Sir, if you'd stop shouting.

0:54:01 > 0:54:03Look, will you stop doing that to me!

0:54:15 > 0:54:17It's 8:30 in the evening.

0:54:17 > 0:54:19I've just got back to my car,

0:54:19 > 0:54:24after being in the police cells for four hours.

0:54:24 > 0:54:28We also had our camera confiscated

0:54:28 > 0:54:30and our footage confiscated by the police.

0:54:35 > 0:54:38I think it was Susan that said, you know,

0:54:38 > 0:54:40and I was quite upset about it.

0:54:40 > 0:54:47I thought, "Oh, gosh, a nice lad like Anthony being taken into jail."

0:54:47 > 0:54:50God, I couldn't sleep,

0:54:50 > 0:54:51thinking about it, you know.

0:54:51 > 0:54:55I thought, "God, what like is the Trump people?"

0:54:55 > 0:54:57They're horrors.

0:54:59 > 0:55:01"Two men charged over filming at Trump."

0:55:01 > 0:55:06I'm sick of seeing this "golf will put northeast on tourism map".

0:55:06 > 0:55:08I don't know what he's wanting to hide here,

0:55:08 > 0:55:10but this keeping people away off

0:55:10 > 0:55:13this huge swathe of land's not right.

0:55:13 > 0:55:17And then, there's that hostile attack on Anthony for no reason,

0:55:17 > 0:55:20the police wouldn't give any reason.

0:55:22 > 0:55:24The mess he's making? Well, there's something.

0:55:24 > 0:55:28I mean, I've never seen anything like this, anywhere.

0:55:33 > 0:55:35It's against the law to cut off anybody's water.

0:55:35 > 0:55:39And if they had damaged it, though, supposed it was an accident,

0:55:39 > 0:55:42they should have been supplying him with water.

0:55:42 > 0:55:44There and then. You know.

0:55:45 > 0:55:47Oh, aye.

0:55:48 > 0:55:52'On his hit show, The Apprentice,

0:55:52 > 0:55:55'Donald Trump's word trumps all.

0:55:55 > 0:55:58'And it appears that power extends to his business venture in Scotland.

0:55:58 > 0:56:00'At least for now.

0:56:00 > 0:56:02'Recently, two British journalists found themselves arrested

0:56:02 > 0:56:07'at the site of Mr Trump's golf resort near Aberdeen...'

0:56:07 > 0:56:10You are being detained under Section 14 of the Criminal...

0:56:10 > 0:56:11That's quite incredible.

0:56:11 > 0:56:14That is just, that's bullying and harassment. That really is shocking.

0:56:14 > 0:56:17It's an assault on journalists trying to do their job.

0:56:17 > 0:56:20It's completely out of order.

0:56:20 > 0:56:22Certainly people from around the world have been taken aback

0:56:22 > 0:56:24that this type of thing could happen.

0:56:24 > 0:56:27Where journalists are actually arrested, violently arrested,

0:56:27 > 0:56:29handcuffed, taken to the cells,

0:56:29 > 0:56:30having been fingerprinted,

0:56:30 > 0:56:35DNA tests, having their equipment taken off them, kept in the cells.

0:56:35 > 0:56:37No, I've never seen anything like this.

0:56:37 > 0:56:39I know people who have been done for contempt of court,

0:56:39 > 0:56:44covering court cases and refusing to expose their sources.

0:56:44 > 0:56:47But this was just an interference in journalists trying to film

0:56:47 > 0:56:50what really is a public interest story.

0:56:52 > 0:56:55'From New York, the greatest city in the world,

0:56:55 > 0:57:00'it's the Late Show With David Letterman.

0:57:00 > 0:57:02'Tonight, Donald Trump.'

0:57:05 > 0:57:07This is the guy, this is the classic story.

0:57:07 > 0:57:10Donald Trump, big American, comes, wants to buy up his ranch,

0:57:10 > 0:57:13or his farm, and he says, "Nope." So is he going to sell or is he not going to sell?

0:57:13 > 0:57:17I don't know, I don't need it. It's not in the way of what I'm doing. It's on the outskirts.

0:57:17 > 0:57:20- And if I buy it, that will be fine. - Right.- But nothing I need.

0:57:20 > 0:57:23So they are using me as an excuse not to build their hotel.

0:57:23 > 0:57:26They're saying, "Oh, it's an eyesore, a pigsty,"

0:57:26 > 0:57:28whatever they want to call it, you know.

0:57:28 > 0:57:32But it's a working place. There's going to be stuff lying about.

0:57:32 > 0:57:33I don't throw nothing out,

0:57:33 > 0:57:36because you never know when it's going to be handy.

0:57:36 > 0:57:40And I'm bloody sure no other farmer would throw anything out either.

0:57:56 > 0:57:58I was sitting in here, I was on my computer,

0:57:58 > 0:58:00I was looking for parts for my tractors.

0:58:00 > 0:58:03And Mickey Foote phoned in the afternoon and says,

0:58:03 > 0:58:06"Do you know there are diggers on your land?"

0:58:06 > 0:58:08So I had a look out and I saw the diggers working away.

0:58:08 > 0:58:10So go over and tell my mother what was going on,

0:58:10 > 0:58:13just in case she got excited.

0:58:13 > 0:58:17I was disgusted and felt ill about it.

0:58:17 > 0:58:21I mean, all that happening on Michael's land,

0:58:21 > 0:58:23that they wanted to buy!

0:58:23 > 0:58:26I took my title deed with me.

0:58:26 > 0:58:30And I says, "You better just put everything back where you got it."

0:58:30 > 0:58:32And there were two policemen there.

0:58:32 > 0:58:34I shouts, I says, "Who's the boss here?"

0:58:34 > 0:58:36They didn't do anything about it.

0:58:36 > 0:58:42They were guarding THEM pulling up the poles and putting up fences.

0:58:42 > 0:58:45And I tried to show them on the title deeds what was mine,

0:58:45 > 0:58:47and they weren't interested.

0:58:47 > 0:58:50They says, "We are just down here to make sure there's no damage caused."

0:58:50 > 0:58:54Bloody damage, they were ripping up the place.

0:58:55 > 0:58:58This is the one I used to use with my father.

0:58:58 > 0:59:00I see them burst it all.

0:59:00 > 0:59:02That was the police who was supposed to be watching it,

0:59:02 > 0:59:04that there was no damage done.

0:59:04 > 0:59:07It looks really respectful, eh? They burst it all.

0:59:08 > 0:59:11They surely phoned the security. Here they come now.

0:59:13 > 0:59:15They've got a road made now.

0:59:15 > 0:59:16HE CHUCKLES

0:59:16 > 0:59:17That's my land, aye.

0:59:17 > 0:59:20Not now, that belongs to them now.

0:59:31 > 0:59:34No, I've seen enough of this.

0:59:37 > 0:59:41This here is the original Menie salmon fishing plans.

0:59:41 > 0:59:45And it shows you here, in black and white,

0:59:45 > 0:59:48that this is the land here for Menie salmon fishers.

0:59:48 > 0:59:51But they are saying in the papers today

0:59:51 > 0:59:54that their plan supersedes my plan.

0:59:54 > 0:59:58This here is Trump's plan of the same area.

0:59:58 > 1:00:01Is here, with this corner cut off.

1:00:17 > 1:00:18Andy Wightman.

1:00:18 > 1:00:19Mike Forbes.

1:00:19 > 1:00:22Good to see you, good to see you.

1:00:22 > 1:00:24What a bizarre goings-on.

1:00:24 > 1:00:26I'm glad you can laugh about it sometimes.

1:00:26 > 1:00:30- Well, you have to.- Oh, aye. - You have to, you know.

1:00:30 > 1:00:33If you have a dispute with your neighbour about whose land is whose,

1:00:33 > 1:00:34you seek to resolve it amicably

1:00:34 > 1:00:37and, ultimately, you would go to the courts.

1:00:37 > 1:00:40You don't grab it. You know, you don't nakedly grab it.

1:00:40 > 1:00:42I mean, that's what they did in the past.

1:00:42 > 1:00:44If everyone was to do that,

1:00:44 > 1:00:47it would be a state of strife across the country.

1:00:47 > 1:00:50The police are correct in that where your boundary is is not a matter for the police.

1:00:50 > 1:00:52It's not a criminal matter. It's a civil matter.

1:00:52 > 1:00:56- They shouldn't have been here. - They shouldn't even have been here.

1:00:56 > 1:01:00And the fact that Trump has got a dispute here,

1:01:00 > 1:01:03thinks he owns this land, that's a civil matter.

1:01:03 > 1:01:06Before all this happened, they put in a line of flags.

1:01:06 > 1:01:10Little red flags, with pieces of wire.

1:01:10 > 1:01:11And they put them in here.

1:01:11 > 1:01:14I removed them all. And I was charged with theft.

1:01:20 > 1:01:24There was all these little bloody red flags all over the place.

1:01:24 > 1:01:25And they were a danger,

1:01:25 > 1:01:29cos my grandsons play down there, and they were sharp wires.

1:01:29 > 1:01:3227 I pulled out of my land.

1:01:32 > 1:01:3427 of these bloody things.

1:01:34 > 1:01:35Is that charge still...?

1:01:35 > 1:01:38The Prosecutor Fiscal sent a letter back saying they'd dropped it,

1:01:38 > 1:01:40but if I do anything like that again,

1:01:40 > 1:01:43I will be severely dealt with.

1:01:43 > 1:01:44So I'm guilty.

1:01:44 > 1:01:47You know, I'm guilty and I would have preferred if it went to court.

1:01:47 > 1:01:52I mean, to me, that suggests, you know, double standards.

1:01:52 > 1:01:55And very, very political policing.

1:01:55 > 1:01:57Have you ever come across a case like this?

1:01:57 > 1:01:59No, no, no.

1:01:59 > 1:02:00This is unprecedented.

1:02:11 > 1:02:14That's a bit stupid, isn't it?

1:02:14 > 1:02:16They've left an access there, look.

1:02:16 > 1:02:19Where's it go? Nowhere.

1:02:19 > 1:02:21How can he say that's better than nature? Eh?

1:02:21 > 1:02:24HE LAUGHS

1:02:24 > 1:02:26Boy, the man lives in cuckooland.

1:02:26 > 1:02:28HE CHUCKLES

1:02:34 > 1:02:38That flag stands for freedom

1:02:38 > 1:02:42and for a country that you are passionate about, presumably.

1:02:42 > 1:02:44Used to be. I used to be.

1:02:44 > 1:02:48Until Salmond gave them the right to destroy the bloody links.

1:02:48 > 1:02:51I voted for SNP for 35 years.

1:02:51 > 1:02:54I'll never ever vote for them again. Never.

1:02:56 > 1:02:58They've done this country wrong.

1:03:00 > 1:03:02They're giving it away to the Americans.

1:03:02 > 1:03:04HE CHUCKLES

1:03:11 > 1:03:14'American tycoon Donald Trump has jetted into Aberdeen

1:03:14 > 1:03:16'ahead of receiving an honorary degree

1:03:16 > 1:03:18'from the city's Robert Gordon University.

1:03:18 > 1:03:21'This afternoon, the Tripping Up Trump campaign

1:03:21 > 1:03:24'handed in a 6,500 signature petition

1:03:24 > 1:03:27'against the university's decision.'

1:03:27 > 1:03:29It's really quite sad to see what he is doing.

1:03:29 > 1:03:32I thought it was going to be done with a little tweak here and there,

1:03:32 > 1:03:35but it's not, it's just been flattened,

1:03:35 > 1:03:37especially the bit beside us, and he's just moving south.

1:03:37 > 1:03:42Awful that our, you know, our country have let him take an SSI and that,

1:03:42 > 1:03:45and I'm sure he's having a quick smile to himself, you know.

1:03:59 > 1:04:04They swarm around him like flies.

1:04:04 > 1:04:05Whenever he's here.

1:04:05 > 1:04:07And I mean, it's just a joke.

1:04:07 > 1:04:10I also think it's just so false, you know.

1:04:10 > 1:04:14All these people arriving suited and booted.

1:04:14 > 1:04:17And, "Yes, Mr Trump." "No, Mr Trump."

1:04:17 > 1:04:19What has he done here to deserve this

1:04:19 > 1:04:23but destroy a Site Of Special Scientific Interest

1:04:23 > 1:04:24and a beautiful dune system?

1:04:49 > 1:04:50The people love what we're doing.

1:04:50 > 1:04:54They love that I'm spending hundreds of millions of pounds on doing it.

1:04:54 > 1:04:57They love the fact that I'm creating a lot of jobs.

1:05:00 > 1:05:02Mr Trump doesn't appreciate just how much this system moves.

1:05:02 > 1:05:04None of these things will ever come back,

1:05:04 > 1:05:07cos the conditions will be totally changed.

1:05:07 > 1:05:10All these damn chemicals on the greens, and...

1:05:11 > 1:05:13Ah, me.

1:05:13 > 1:05:17You just wonder where it's going to end with this.

1:05:24 > 1:05:26The last time he was here,

1:05:26 > 1:05:29he made quite a rather sour comment

1:05:29 > 1:05:31about myself and Findlay and the dog.

1:05:31 > 1:05:33You, know, "Demonstrators."

1:05:33 > 1:05:36And I thought, "I'm not a demonstrator. I live here."

1:05:48 > 1:05:50This one was from the students.

1:05:50 > 1:05:53And any gift from the students I always valued.

1:05:56 > 1:05:59Because I thought that was what my work was about.

1:06:04 > 1:06:05From the moment I decided

1:06:05 > 1:06:09that I was going to hand my honorary degree back,

1:06:09 > 1:06:13my thoughts were all about how I could get the maximum publicity.

1:06:13 > 1:06:18Because I knew that simply handing it back in a private manner,

1:06:18 > 1:06:22it would simply be put away and that would be the end of it.

1:06:22 > 1:06:25How difficult is it for you to return this degree?

1:06:25 > 1:06:26It's not difficult at all.

1:06:26 > 1:06:28I'm going to march in that door

1:06:28 > 1:06:30and ask whether the Principal is available.

1:06:30 > 1:06:32If he isn't, it will be given into the desk.

1:06:32 > 1:06:34And that will be it.

1:06:34 > 1:06:36Because somebody's got to stand up to these people

1:06:36 > 1:06:39and make sure that the world knows

1:06:39 > 1:06:41there are people who don't approve of this.

1:06:41 > 1:06:43I don't approve of bullying.

1:06:43 > 1:06:46I don't approve of bullying to the people on the Menie Estate.

1:06:46 > 1:06:50That is my honorary degree certificate.

1:06:50 > 1:06:52Not wanted! Not wanted!

1:06:52 > 1:06:54APPLAUSE

1:06:56 > 1:06:59For someone in such a significant and serious position

1:06:59 > 1:07:03to take what is obviously a very personal and determined stance

1:07:03 > 1:07:05is a very positive thing for us.

1:07:05 > 1:07:09And we are here in pure support of Dr Kennedy and his position.

1:07:11 > 1:07:14Donald Trump has said he thinks you cannae be too greedy.

1:07:14 > 1:07:17He believes that you should be brutal and powerful.

1:07:17 > 1:07:21He believes that sacking people is not a bad thing.

1:07:21 > 1:07:23He boasts of the number of people he's sacked.

1:07:23 > 1:07:26These are not the sort of qualities I would expect of a man

1:07:26 > 1:07:28who is to receive an honorary degree.

1:07:28 > 1:07:30APPLAUSE

1:07:30 > 1:07:32He feels very strongly.

1:07:32 > 1:07:34And I think, under those circumstances,

1:07:34 > 1:07:36it isn't a difficult decision to make.

1:07:36 > 1:07:38David, what happened inside?

1:07:38 > 1:07:41Well, Professor Harper wasn't available.

1:07:41 > 1:07:45And so I saw one of the Vice-Principals.

1:07:45 > 1:07:49But, of course, she's following the party line

1:07:49 > 1:07:52that Mr Trump is a very successful entrepreneur,

1:07:52 > 1:07:56he's a billionaire, and, of course, that tells you everything.

1:07:58 > 1:08:01- (ON RADIO)- ' "They're making a mockery of the system,"

1:08:01 > 1:08:02'in the words of Dr David Kennedy,

1:08:02 > 1:08:06'who's handed back his honorary degree to Robert Gordon University.

1:08:06 > 1:08:08'And he has this message for the tycoon.

1:08:08 > 1:08:10'Don't trample on your neighbours.'

1:08:10 > 1:08:12Don't destroy the environment of Aberdeen.

1:08:12 > 1:08:16This is part of the jewels of Scotland that are being destroyed.

1:08:16 > 1:08:19My view is take your money elsewhere. We don't want it.

1:08:27 > 1:08:30A positive paper, but it's letting people know the truth.

1:08:30 > 1:08:31Because we feel that people

1:08:31 > 1:08:33don't know the realities of this development.

1:08:33 > 1:08:35And if they did know, they'd think twice.

1:08:35 > 1:08:37There's some people in Aberdeen

1:08:37 > 1:08:39that really want this development to go ahead. Powerful people.

1:08:39 > 1:08:43And they're not letting the word out on what's going on.

1:08:43 > 1:08:45- Have you been out at Menie House? - Yes.

1:08:45 > 1:08:47And have you seen some of the ramshackle dumps

1:08:47 > 1:08:49that are round there?

1:08:49 > 1:08:50If you mean Michael Forbes'...

1:08:50 > 1:08:52I'm not referring to anybody specific -

1:08:52 > 1:08:53I'm talking in general terms.

1:08:53 > 1:08:55- Have you seen it?- Um... I've been to Menie, yes.

1:08:55 > 1:08:56Here's the point.

1:08:56 > 1:08:59You take in wealthy people from all over the world, flying in,

1:08:59 > 1:09:02and they're playing there and they're looking at houses

1:09:02 > 1:09:05that are in bad condition, with ramshackle tractors

1:09:05 > 1:09:08and old farm implements lying over there.

1:09:08 > 1:09:09Do you think that does any good

1:09:09 > 1:09:12to the vision of Scotland throughout the world?

1:09:12 > 1:09:14BAGPIPES PLAY

1:09:30 > 1:09:33'American billionaire Donald Trump defied his critics'

1:09:33 > 1:09:38to pick up an honorary degree from Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University.

1:09:38 > 1:09:40He's pledged to build the world's greatest golf course

1:09:40 > 1:09:43on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire.

1:09:43 > 1:09:46'Today, Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University

1:09:46 > 1:09:51'recognised US tycoon Donald Trump's ability to make money.

1:09:51 > 1:09:53'Now a Doctor of Business Administration...'

1:09:53 > 1:09:57- Just a casual shot against the railing would be quite nice.- Lovely!

1:09:59 > 1:10:02Can we get the "You're Fired" again, Mr Trump?

1:10:03 > 1:10:04Thank you very much.

1:10:06 > 1:10:08Hello, everybody.

1:10:10 > 1:10:11Is the course on schedule?

1:10:11 > 1:10:14Yeah, the course is in perfect schedule.

1:10:14 > 1:10:16In fact, if anything, it's ahead of schedule.

1:10:16 > 1:10:20And I am very happy to report that everything we've done...

1:10:20 > 1:10:22I think it's even coming out

1:10:22 > 1:10:25better than we had anticipated in our wildest dreams.

1:10:25 > 1:10:27It's going to be really spectacular.

1:10:27 > 1:10:30There doesn't seem to be people against the job.

1:10:30 > 1:10:32The only one I see is this gentleman right here,

1:10:32 > 1:10:35who I've never seen before until yesterday when he started screaming.

1:10:35 > 1:10:38Question? Real journalists. I want real journalists.

1:10:38 > 1:10:41Mr Trump, I wonder what you'd say to Dr David Kennedy.

1:10:41 > 1:10:43He handed back his degree last week

1:10:43 > 1:10:47and said that your honour was an insult to decent people everywhere,

1:10:47 > 1:10:52and also accused you of bullying people on the Menie Estate.

1:10:52 > 1:10:56And, I mean, I myself have been arrested, handcuffed

1:10:56 > 1:10:58and put in a prison cell for four hours

1:10:58 > 1:11:01whilst interviewing your representative, Mr Paul O'Connor,

1:11:01 > 1:11:05on the site. I just wondered whether you felt that was the right way

1:11:05 > 1:11:09to treat people and whether, in fact, you had anything to hide.

1:11:09 > 1:11:11I never heard of Mr Kennedy. I don't know who he is.

1:11:11 > 1:11:13So I can't really refer.

1:11:13 > 1:11:16I mean, you're asking me about a person that I've never heard of.

1:11:16 > 1:11:19Dr David Kennedy, the former Principal of...

1:11:19 > 1:11:21I've never heard of him. I'm sorry.

1:11:21 > 1:11:23This is a very popular job.

1:11:23 > 1:11:27It's only questions like you ask that, you know, cause trouble.

1:11:27 > 1:11:31- Any other questions?- Yes, Mr Trump, I just wonder if you could tell us

1:11:31 > 1:11:34- how many local people...? - One question per journalist.

1:11:34 > 1:11:37- How many local people were employed on the site at the moment?- A lot.

1:11:37 > 1:11:40We have a lot of local people employed and we are just...

1:11:40 > 1:11:41Can you give us a number?

1:11:41 > 1:11:42I don't have numbers.

1:11:42 > 1:11:44We are just beginning, but a lot of people.

1:11:44 > 1:11:46And there will be more and more.

1:11:46 > 1:11:48We've had hundreds of people doing the marram,

1:11:48 > 1:11:50we're ready to start the marram grass again.

1:11:50 > 1:11:51That's a very big project.

1:11:51 > 1:11:54But we've got a lot of local people employed on the site.

1:11:54 > 1:11:55But it is an Irish contractor.

1:12:08 > 1:12:12So I'm going to go and phone the police shortly and let them know.

1:12:12 > 1:12:15Take it from there. I've also spoken to a lawyer.

1:12:18 > 1:12:20I'm phoning in connection

1:12:20 > 1:12:22with an incident number you already have on your books.

1:12:22 > 1:12:26Incident 56, of the 18th of October.

1:12:26 > 1:12:28In other words, yesterday.

1:12:28 > 1:12:31Well, it was regarding, we expected certain persons

1:12:31 > 1:12:34to come on to our land yesterday and cut down and remove a fence.

1:12:34 > 1:12:35That didn't happen.

1:12:35 > 1:12:39However, they have come on TODAY and cut down and removed that fence.

1:12:41 > 1:12:46This is the letter that we received.

1:12:46 > 1:12:47They are saying that I "have a fence

1:12:47 > 1:12:49"and part of a shed (or other building)

1:12:49 > 1:12:51"erected on land belonging to them."

1:12:54 > 1:12:57They are saying that they now intend to remove the fence -

1:12:57 > 1:13:00you'll notice I'm not given the option to remove it myself -

1:13:00 > 1:13:01and that they may,

1:13:01 > 1:13:04if they choose, put the fence back up on their drawing.

1:13:09 > 1:13:13As far as the shed goes, they're giving me 72 hours

1:13:13 > 1:13:15or they are going to raise an action in the Sheriff Court

1:13:15 > 1:13:17to have it removed.

1:13:17 > 1:13:21If you take the double garage, it's sitting here.

1:13:21 > 1:13:24OK. I have a stick shed sits here.

1:13:24 > 1:13:28There's an old brick shed from the coastguard days sits there.

1:13:28 > 1:13:31And the house actually sits in about here.

1:13:34 > 1:13:39Out here, there is a pole for the overhead electricity line.

1:13:39 > 1:13:41They are claiming, at the moment,

1:13:41 > 1:13:44that this boundary, actually,

1:13:44 > 1:13:47runs something like that.

1:13:52 > 1:13:55And here, they're tying to take the back wall off my garage.

1:13:57 > 1:13:59We've been very nice. We've tried to be very nice.

1:13:59 > 1:14:01We actually just learned that one of them

1:14:01 > 1:14:04may have built their house on our land.

1:14:04 > 1:14:07We learned that last night, when we were doing a survey.

1:14:07 > 1:14:12One of the people actually have a big chunk of their house on our land.

1:14:12 > 1:14:14So we're having that checked out.

1:14:15 > 1:14:17You'll find out.

1:14:18 > 1:14:21I've come home today. I see the fence is missing.

1:14:21 > 1:14:24That's a police car that was in here this morning.

1:14:24 > 1:14:28Which makes it eight, nine, ten o'clock this morning or thereby.

1:14:28 > 1:14:30So it will be interesting to see

1:14:30 > 1:14:32what time the fence actually came down.

1:14:32 > 1:14:35They hit the power line yesterday.

1:14:35 > 1:14:38240 volt supply to my house.

1:14:38 > 1:14:42Mr Trump's workmen severed the line with the digger,

1:14:42 > 1:14:44popped the line, and, of course, everything shorted,

1:14:44 > 1:14:46and it cut everybody off.

1:14:48 > 1:14:51It's working away, quite the thing. There you go.

1:14:51 > 1:14:53Power went out.

1:15:01 > 1:15:04The fence that they put up without my permission.

1:15:04 > 1:15:06"The attached invoice is now due.

1:15:06 > 1:15:11"Please arrange payment for half of this invoice, £2,820,

1:15:11 > 1:15:15"to be made payable to Trump International Golf Links, Scotland."

1:15:20 > 1:15:24I got out of my bed this morning, the whole house shaking.

1:15:24 > 1:15:26Things falling off Findlay's shelf.

1:15:26 > 1:15:31But this is getting bigger by the day. It's incredibly high now.

1:15:31 > 1:15:33Did you ask the builders what they were doing with this?

1:15:33 > 1:15:35Findlay did.

1:15:35 > 1:15:36What did they say?

1:15:36 > 1:15:38It's Mr Trump's instructions.

1:15:38 > 1:15:40- Mr Trump's instructions? - Yeah.

1:15:40 > 1:15:42To put all this earth here.

1:15:42 > 1:15:44Yeah, to block our view, to harass us.

1:15:44 > 1:15:48Obviously. There's no bank on the plans. Anything like that.

1:15:48 > 1:15:51Oh, I don't know what to do.

1:16:34 > 1:16:38It's...rather meaningless.

1:16:38 > 1:16:43Took them a maybe a week, ten days, to actually construct.

1:16:43 > 1:16:45So there's quite a lot of work involved.

1:16:45 > 1:16:49There's a lot of time involved, there's a lot of effort involved. For no real purpose.

1:16:52 > 1:16:54Get it done and don't spend a lot.

1:16:54 > 1:16:58'It's all on Donald J Trump's Fabulous World Of Golf.'

1:16:59 > 1:17:01Sarah, I want to get rid of that house.

1:17:03 > 1:17:05Who cares? Who cares?

1:17:05 > 1:17:08You know what, who cares? It's our property. We can do what we want.

1:17:08 > 1:17:12We're trying to build the greatest course in the world, this house is ugly.

1:17:12 > 1:17:15There are some houses, quite far away from the course,

1:17:15 > 1:17:17but, nevertheless, they are in view.

1:17:17 > 1:17:21But we are berming some of the area so that you don't see the houses.

1:17:21 > 1:17:22I don't want to see the houses.

1:17:22 > 1:17:24And nobody has a problem with it.

1:17:24 > 1:17:26I guess maybe the people that live in the houses have.

1:17:31 > 1:17:33There's a great big pond here.

1:17:33 > 1:17:36Now, the more mud they're scraping, the water is all bubbling up.

1:17:36 > 1:17:38I was just waiting for that.

1:17:38 > 1:17:39The water?

1:17:39 > 1:17:41Yeah, water table, they've hit it.

1:17:41 > 1:17:43It's supposed to be a putting green.

1:17:43 > 1:17:46I could cope, I suppose you'd have to cope with a putting green.

1:17:46 > 1:17:48Not that I'd like balls flying in my garden.

1:17:48 > 1:17:51But they've come today, "We're making a car park."

1:17:51 > 1:17:53No, you're not, it's not on your plans.

1:17:53 > 1:17:57That big mound in front of us that shouldn't have been done.

1:17:57 > 1:17:58Not on the plans.

1:17:58 > 1:18:00Cos there's just the dunes there, Kim,

1:18:00 > 1:18:02but the bit we used to walk over onto the beach.

1:18:02 > 1:18:05I took photos on Anthony's camera.

1:18:05 > 1:18:08I mean, we got a shock. We just stood and looked round.

1:18:08 > 1:18:10Totally flat. Sand everywhere. Everything gone.

1:19:25 > 1:19:28'I'm imagining now how beautiful it must be.

1:19:28 > 1:19:30'These dunes on the beautiful coast of Scotland.

1:19:30 > 1:19:32- 'The west coast of Scotland? - Well, yes, more or less.'

1:19:32 > 1:19:34And... Uh, what do you mean, "more or less"?

1:19:34 > 1:19:36LAUGHTER

1:19:36 > 1:19:39It's such a big area, it covers a lot of territory.

1:19:41 > 1:19:43'It's so beautiful.

1:19:43 > 1:19:45'It is beautiful, but I'll make it more beautiful.

1:19:45 > 1:19:47'Actually, when I finish, it will be far more beautiful.

1:19:47 > 1:19:50- 'Really?- Yep. That's right.'

1:19:56 > 1:19:58I'm not fond of Donald Trump.

1:19:58 > 1:20:02And I wouldn't want to come all this way to go play a new course,

1:20:02 > 1:20:05nor one of his facility courses, so...

1:20:05 > 1:20:09I'm not sure that it's going to be a very successful operation.

1:20:09 > 1:20:11You know, he's pretty gaudy.

1:20:11 > 1:20:13I mean, that is the way he does things.

1:20:13 > 1:20:15You know, he's a New Yorker.

1:20:15 > 1:20:16HE CHUCKLES

1:20:16 > 1:20:20So...I'm sure it will be a spectacular course.

1:20:20 > 1:20:24I'm not sure it will fit in with, you know, the tradition, so...

1:20:24 > 1:20:27He says it's going to be the best in the world.

1:20:27 > 1:20:30Well, Donald would say that, wouldn't he, you know?

1:20:30 > 1:20:33Trump will price it most likely outside of my range.

1:20:44 > 1:20:46Of course, there will be some local workers.

1:20:46 > 1:20:48The question is, what proportion of workers will be local.

1:20:48 > 1:20:51And there, I think that the estimates that are made

1:20:51 > 1:20:56in the economic impact study are wildly optimistic.

1:20:56 > 1:20:57I mean, if I were Irish,

1:20:57 > 1:21:00I'd be delighted if Irish workers were being employed.

1:21:00 > 1:21:03If I were Polish, I'm delighted that Polish workers are being employed.

1:21:03 > 1:21:06But they're not going to be creating jobs in the local economy.

1:21:06 > 1:21:08And indeed, migrant workers

1:21:08 > 1:21:10tend to remit a lot of their wages back to where they come from.

1:21:10 > 1:21:13So they wouldn't be spending within the local economy.

1:21:15 > 1:21:17If a British developer came along saying

1:21:17 > 1:21:21that they wanted to build 500 houses

1:21:21 > 1:21:27and a 450-bed hotel on an area of wild beauty,

1:21:27 > 1:21:30remote from any large city,

1:21:30 > 1:21:33which was going to destroy

1:21:33 > 1:21:37what is the most highly protected type of site we have,

1:21:37 > 1:21:39a Site Of Special Scientific Interest,

1:21:39 > 1:21:45which was, by all accounts, a unique type of site,

1:21:45 > 1:21:47they would be laughed out of court.

1:21:54 > 1:21:56Think of Mr Trump as a poker player.

1:21:56 > 1:22:00And he's got a hand, but he's also bluffing the local authorities

1:22:00 > 1:22:04and the Scottish Government to give him planning permission.

1:22:04 > 1:22:07That planning permission is immensely, immensely valuable.

1:22:07 > 1:22:09Thousands of millions of pounds, probably.

1:22:09 > 1:22:11Just to get the planning permission.

1:22:12 > 1:22:15So his job is to persuade people

1:22:15 > 1:22:17that there's huge economic benefits.

1:22:17 > 1:22:19That's his job.

1:22:19 > 1:22:23But we should be critically cautious in accepting numbers

1:22:23 > 1:22:25which come from the Trump camp.

1:22:25 > 1:22:28And from what you've seen of those numbers,

1:22:28 > 1:22:30do you think there has been enough caution?

1:22:31 > 1:22:33No, I don't think there's been enough caution

1:22:33 > 1:22:35in critically interpreting those numbers.

1:22:35 > 1:22:40It's not surprising that sort of city fathers might be deceived

1:22:40 > 1:22:45by a glamorous international superstar like Donald Trump.

1:22:45 > 1:22:48I do find it more surprising that the Scottish Government,

1:22:48 > 1:22:52who I thought was quite canny, has fallen for it in the way they have.

1:22:52 > 1:22:56BAGPIPE PLAYS

1:23:16 > 1:23:19This is the pond where all the ducks were.

1:23:19 > 1:23:22I don't know what they've done, but they've now, as you can see,

1:23:22 > 1:23:25got this fenced off with this orange netting.

1:23:32 > 1:23:34It's horrifying, of course, to see, you know,

1:23:34 > 1:23:37the sand just piled up like that, willy-nilly.

1:23:37 > 1:23:40This was a pristine and fantastic dune system,

1:23:40 > 1:23:44and now parts of it are in the process of being wrecked.

1:23:44 > 1:23:46And that's very sad.

1:23:46 > 1:23:48And as things stand at the moment,

1:23:48 > 1:23:51much of the rest of it is going to be wrecked as well.

1:23:51 > 1:23:53BAGPIPE PLAYS

1:23:58 > 1:23:59Fine, fine, eh.

1:24:01 > 1:24:03It's good, this is great.

1:24:18 > 1:24:21My name's Michael. I'm just up from Glasgow today.

1:24:21 > 1:24:23Just to offer you some support.

1:24:23 > 1:24:24Excellent. Thank you.

1:24:24 > 1:24:26Good luck.

1:24:26 > 1:24:29- Hi. How are you doing? - Fine day for it.

1:24:29 > 1:24:32- To show you a bit of support. - Thank you very much.

1:24:39 > 1:24:41ALL: Come and join us!

1:24:41 > 1:24:43Join us!

1:24:47 > 1:24:49It's good to see that there's so many young people here

1:24:49 > 1:24:51supporting justice.

1:24:51 > 1:24:55And I'm at one with them. I agree completely.

1:24:55 > 1:24:58And I find it very, very, very pleasing

1:24:58 > 1:25:01to see so many people turning out today

1:25:01 > 1:25:05in order to support the people who are being victimised

1:25:05 > 1:25:09by Donald Trump and his profit-making ways.

1:25:10 > 1:25:11I'm very proud, yah.

1:25:11 > 1:25:13It gives you a boost.

1:25:13 > 1:25:15It really gives you a boost.

1:25:15 > 1:25:20You know, when you are down in the mouth about what is going on here

1:25:20 > 1:25:23and then you get all these people supporting you, it's really good.

1:25:23 > 1:25:25Yeah, I'm really proud.

1:25:25 > 1:25:28What kind of things have they been saying?

1:25:28 > 1:25:31Oh, just keep up the fight. It's always the same, every time.

1:25:31 > 1:25:33Keep up the fight. I'm doing my best!

1:25:33 > 1:25:36HE LAUGHS

1:25:53 > 1:25:55Can I help you, gentlemen?

1:25:55 > 1:25:58Yes, I'd like to use the telephone. Is there one in the hotel?

1:25:58 > 1:26:00There's a phone box just across the road at the jetty.

1:26:00 > 1:26:02You'll need some change.

1:26:02 > 1:26:04Aye, you can talk to anyone in the world from there.

1:26:04 > 1:26:06Could you change this for me? Ten's the lot.

1:26:06 > 1:26:09Now, I don't think I'll manage that.

1:26:09 > 1:26:12You got any change, lads?

1:26:12 > 1:26:16'The gentleman here would like to make a very important long-distance phone call. Intercontinental.

1:26:16 > 1:26:18'Come on, give me your change.'

1:26:22 > 1:26:24RINGING TONE

1:26:24 > 1:26:26'Trump Organization.'

1:26:26 > 1:26:29Oh, hello there, yes. I was wondering if I could speak

1:26:29 > 1:26:30to Donald Trump, please?

1:26:30 > 1:26:31I'm calling from Scotland,

1:26:31 > 1:26:34just recording this call My name is Anthony Baxter.

1:26:34 > 1:26:36'OK, what was it regarding?'

1:26:36 > 1:26:38Yes, I'm making a documentary

1:26:38 > 1:26:42about the Trump Golf Course development north of Aberdeen

1:26:42 > 1:26:44and just wondered whether I could speak to him about it.

1:26:44 > 1:26:46'I could give you the email address...'

1:26:46 > 1:26:49Yeah, I did email Rhona a few times, actually, last year...

1:26:49 > 1:26:51'Do you have the correct email address?'

1:26:51 > 1:26:54I think so, because she returned the email saying

1:26:54 > 1:26:57that he was too busy to do an interview at the time.

1:26:57 > 1:27:00- So I just thought I would touch base.- '..if you like.'

1:27:00 > 1:27:03Right, I did do that, and then, I didn't hear anything back.

1:27:03 > 1:27:06I mean, I don't mind waiting for her meeting to finish.

1:27:06 > 1:27:08It's just that I've only got so many 50p's here.

1:27:10 > 1:27:12And I can't just speak to Mr Trump's PA?

1:27:12 > 1:27:14'Hold on a moment.'

1:27:14 > 1:27:15OK.

1:27:18 > 1:27:20OK, thanks.

1:27:20 > 1:27:23COINS DROP INTO TELEPHONE SLOT

1:27:26 > 1:27:28- 'Hello?'- Hello.

1:27:28 > 1:27:31'OK, sir, I'm sorry, but that's the only possibility, to email Rhona.

1:27:31 > 1:27:33'I'm sorry, I have to take other calls.'

1:27:33 > 1:27:35SHE HANGS UP THE PHONE

1:28:19 > 1:28:22MUSIC: "Cover Your Eyes" by Karine Polwart

1:28:22 > 1:28:25# You can tear these dunes asunder

1:28:25 > 1:28:27# Pound this wonder into dust

1:28:27 > 1:28:31# With your cruel hands And crooked hearts

1:28:31 > 1:28:36# Laden with lust and expensive lies

1:28:36 > 1:28:38# But the haar will stumble in

1:28:38 > 1:28:41# To cover your eyes

1:28:41 > 1:28:46# The haar will stumble in. #

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