It’s a familiar dilemma: you’ve bagged yourself a home with uninterrupted views and then someone else comes along and spoils it. Or maybe a tree in the garden next door has grown so tall it is blocking out your sunlight.

A former oil and gas fabrication yard in the Highlands is to play a role in the construction and running of a floating wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast. Ardersier, near Inverness, is to serve as an assembly, delivery and operations centre for the 1GW Aspen project in the North Sea.

Donald Trump has urged the UK to get rid of “unsightly windmills” and incentivise drilling for oil in the North Sea. The US President said the deal hammered out with Sir Keir Starmer’s Government was “working out well”.