American billionaire tycoon Donald Trump has purchased a stretch of Scotland's heritage coastline to build "the best golf course in the world".

For those that run Aberdeenshire, this development is a boon for the area, so the politicians, the business community. the regional press and even the police are all, quite naturally, four square behind the money, and therefore complicit in whatever it takes to make it happen.

But Mr Trump's project plans have now changed to include land currently occupied by four families whose properties border the development site.

Even if objectors to the original development plan were to be dismissed, in the words of The Scotsman's Michael Kelly, as "anti business", "crypto-green" and "Nimby", this attempt to evict people from their homes because their dwellings spoil the view is plainly wrong.

Despite the extraordinary levels of bias, and in some cases suppression, in local reporting of the issues, an increasing number of people understand the enormity of the principles at stake, and on Saturday October 9th, hundreds of people marched across the Menie Estate to show solidarity with those individuals now facing bullying and harassment by a very wealthy neighbour who wishes them gone.

This event was not covered by The Press and Journal, as they no longer consider the campaign group who organised it to be worthy of their attention, but this short piece gives something of the flavour of the day....