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It seems that the wind farm proposals are now the subject of some concern. Archive Image The Western Isles Planning Applications Board has given its backing to a series of recommendations supporting revised proposals for the Stornoway Wind Farm Development, and concluding that there is ‘no public interest’ in a Public Local Inquiry being held into the matter. Comhairle nan Eilean Siar is now set to consider the recommendations at a meeting of the Full Council tomorrow, as it determines its response to Scottish Ministers on the plans. The revised plans for the development could see 35 turb...

DONALD Trump’s corporation has let Scotland down by failing to deliver its promised £1 billion boost, according to a former consultant on his course. Dr Thomas Dargie has been mapping the country’s sands and machair for 50 years and spent three years advising Trump International at Menie in Aberdeenshire at what is now Trump International Golf Links. During that period, he warned the US leisure giant that the planned course – which was to come with a £1bn investment – posed a “very significant threat” to the protected dune system there, a mass of dynamic shifting sands tha...