Trump course approved

Aberdeen: US President Donald Trump has been given permission to build another golf course in Scotland, after authorities there decided in his favour despite local opposition.

The new 18hole course is to be named after Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who hailed from a Scottish island. It is to be built on the US president's estate in Balmedie, near Aberdeen, which already has one golf course.

The decision to go ahead with the new course, follows long battles with conservationists over the resort on the North Sea coast. Critics fear for the dunes and loss of publicly accessible land. — AAP