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Family fight against Dubai ruler’s Scottish Highlands estate plans

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A father and daughter have told of their two year ‘nightmare’ fighting controversial plans by the oil rich billionaire ruler of Dubai to build a lodge at his Scottish Highland retreat just yards from their home. Highland Council refused the development in June because it would have been too close to a neighbouring bungalow, which … Read more

Calls for probe into why investigation into kidnap of Dubai ruler’s daughter dropped

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Princess Shamsa was abducted from Cambridge after she went on the run in 2000 and the High Court has ruled her father Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum was behind the plot  Demands are growing for independent inquiries into the roles of the Foreign Office and Cambridgeshire Police after an investigation into the abduction of a princess in Britain … Read more