One in the eye for Donald Trump

Sweden's Vattenfall will invest 3 billion Swedish crowns (£264.4 million) in a Scottish offshore wind farm that Donald Trump tried to stop being built near his luxury golf course in Scotland.

State-owned Vattenfall described its investment as a vote of confidence in Britain after the nation's decision to leave the European Union.

"The decision to invest ... comes only a few weeks after the British referendum on leaving the EU and demonstrates Vattenfall's continuing long-term commitment to wind power in Great Britain," the company said in a statement.

Vattenfall said the wind farm will have capacity of 92.4 megawatts, which could potentially supply about 130,000 households with energy.

In December last year Britain's top court threw out a bid by Trump to stop the 11-turbine wind farm from being built near his multimillion-dollar resort.

The Trump Organization denounced the Scottish government as "foolish, small minded and parochial". The Scottish National Party's foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond replied that Trump was "three times a loser".

Construction is expected to start in the latter part of 2017, with the wind farm expected to start generating electricity in spring 2018. Onshore construction activity will start later this year.

In this one instance we do have a certain sympathy for the Trump. We're OK with windfarms, but only if they are out of sight, and we'd prefer to be playing our links golfing staring out to clear blue sea.

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