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US tycoon Donald Trump is due to fly into Aberdeen to oversee progress on his new golf course development.
The businessman is expected to spend a number of days at the Menie Estate after jetting in on his private plane.
The development, which is being built on a site of special scientific interest, remains controversial.
All 18 tees have now been shaped and turfed at the championship golf course, where work began more than a year ago and should be completed by summer 2012.
A handful of local residents, who had been threatened with compulsory purchase orders, have been told by the Trump Organisation that it is no longer interested in buying their homes.
Despite that move, protests – led by the Tripping Up Trump campaign group – have been continuing.
The total cost of the project, north of Aberdeen, is likely to be about £750m.
As well as a championship golf course, the development includes a 450-room hotel, 950 holiday apartments and 500 residential homes.
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