{"id":32633,"date":"2025-07-30T04:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32633\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:39:09","slug":"donald-trumps-aberdeenshire-golf-course-on-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/32633\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s Aberdeenshire golf course on lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Local residents in nearby houses have been evacuated with their pets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It is understood that the President remained in MacLeod House on the estate while officers carried out checks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There are still people on the course and in the clubhouse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Police Scotland initially released a statement to say the situation was over and the cordon had been lifted, but those in attendance said it was not the case.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read More\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The force has\u00a0since issued a further statement to say the cordon does remain in place after military colleagues requested a further opportunity to check the vehicle that was the subject of the investigation.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Police Scotland spokesperson initially\u00a0said:\u00a0&#8220;Shortly after 3pm, a security cordon was put in place at an entrance to the Menie Estate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/local-news\/aberdeen-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aberdeen<\/a>shire, as officers carried out precautionary checks on a vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This search has been completed, there was no criminality and the cordon has been removed.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They later added:\u00a0&#8220;As the cordon was being removed, military colleagues from EOD requested to carry out further checks on the vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;These remain ongoing and the decision has been taken to maintain the cordon at this time.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A further update at 6.30pm said:\u00a0&#8220;We have been advised by military colleagues in EOD that further searches of the vehicle have now been completed.\u00a0&#8220;There is no risk and cordons are in the process of being lifted. It was a false alarm with good intent.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local residents in nearby houses have been evacuated with their pets. It is understood that the President remained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-32633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}