Last updated at 23:30 21 October 2007

A Scottish fisherman

has turned down an offer

worth £1million from

Donald Trump to move.

Michael Forbes, 52,

owns a small farm on the

estate where the

billionaire wants to build a

£500million golf resort.

Mr Trump has

described the home as

an "eyesore" and wants

Mr Forbes, his wife and

elderly mother to leave.

However, Mr Forbes is

digging his heels in.

His determination to

stay put forced Trump

Corporation to offer him

£350,000 and a £50,000-ayear job for life on the

proposed development.

But it failed to impress.

Mr Forbes said: "I told

them from the start the

place wasn't for sale.

"I

wouldn't go and work for

them if it was the last job

in the world."

The stand-off has been

compared to the film

Local Hero in which a

local blocks a bid by an

American oil baron to

buy an entire Scottish

village.

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Neil Hobday, project

director for the planned

resort on the

Aberdeenshire coast, insisted the

firm wasn't "a cruel

squeezing developer".

He said: "Not many

people get a substantial cash

offer for lock, stock and

barrel, to tidy up your

property, pay your legal

and moving costs, find

somewhere for you to live

and give you a job for life."

Mr Forbes has accused

Mr Trump of "harassment".

The tycoon claims

the golf course will be the

best in the world and will

create 1,400 jobs.