US billionaire Donald Trump is a man who usually gets what he wants, but a Scottish salmon fisherman is standing firm against his plans to build a luxury golf course resort.Trump wants to build two championship courses, a 450-bedroom hotel and 950 holiday homes on land near Balmedie, just north of the city of Aberdeen, in northeast Scotland.
But Michael Forbe's ramshackle farm lies slap bang in the middle of the proposed second hole and the site of a planned eight-storey five-star hotel – and the 55-year-old is refusing to be bought out.
The row has echoes of the cult 1983 film Local Hero, in which an astronomy-obsessed US oil billionaire earmarks a picturesque Scottish fishing village as the site of a new oil and gas development.
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