MSP BLASTS REFORM PLANS: Land of free-for-all.. if you are supér-rich

Timid’ shake-up won't hit Trump

- DAN VEVERS

DONALD Trump's controversial Aberdeenshire golf course will be able to dodge "timid" SNP reforms to land ownership in Scotland, it's been claimed.

Labour MSP Mercedes Villalba has accused Scottish ministers of bowing to super-wealthy landowners with watered-down plans that won't break the rich's stranglehold on Scotland.

It comes as it emerged a group representing the biggest posh estates had lobbied the Government more than half a dozen times in the last year.

Villalba wants a limit of 500 hectares on landholdings set in the upcoming Land Reform Bill.