The US tycoon has written to Scotland's first minister to object to plans to build an offshore wind farm near his luxury golf resort

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Donald Trump has written to Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, objecting to plans to build an offshore wind farm near his luxury golf resort. A planning application for an 11-turbine wind farm off Aberdeen Bay was submitted to Marine Scotland last month.

In the letter, the US tycoon described the wind turbines, to be located a mile from his golf course, as "disastrous and environmentally irresponsible". Trump's £750m development on the Menie estate on the coast is nearing completion after work began a year ago.

Trump said: "Unfortunately, instead of celebrating the start of something valuable and beautiful for Scotland, this ugly cloud is hanging over the future of the great Scottish coastline."