If Starmer is willing to help Trump host a lucrative golf tournament, will he caddy for him too? | Marina Hyde

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 13:40 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The prime minister is apparently pursuing ways to land the 2028 Open for the president. With friends like that, POTUS surely won’t be carrying his own clubs

At what point does realpolitik tip over int…

Whitehall officials 'spoke to golf authorities about holding Open at Trump Turnberry' after US president pestered Keir Starmer

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 10:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Discussions are said to have taken place with the Royal & Ancient about holding the 2028 Open Championship at Trump Turnberry in Ayrshire, as the UK seeks a trade deal with the United States.

I fell pregnant with twins after a one-night stand even though I took the morning after pill - a little-known rule meant it didn't work

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 10:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Holly Firth, 29, from Ayrshire, Scotland, had a one-night stand at a friend's wedding which landed her with twins - as her morning after pill didn't work for this little-known reason

Reopening of Trump-owned golf course delayed after damage by pro-Palestine group

found 2025 › Apr › 01 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Turf at Turnberry’s Ailsa Course ripped up by protesters
Course has been closed since October due to renovation

Turnberry’s famous Ailsa Course will not open as planned on 1 May after serious damage ca…

Donald Trump's son Eric holds talks with John Swinney

found 2025 › Mar › 13 (Thu) @ 19:14 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

Eric Trump is a senior executive in his father's business - the Trump Organisation - which owns golf resorts in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire.

Trump team raises return of Open golf to Turnberry with Starmer

found 2025 › Mar › 01 (Sat) @ 08:51 UTC

a story from Financial Times › Financial Times

Ayrshire resort owned by US president was last used for Britain’s premier tournament in 2009

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 21:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

Journalist, novelist …

Pictured: Grandmother, 59, who survived on bags of Skips for 16 MONTHS before life-saving operation brought her back from the 'brink of death'

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 21:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Kathy Allan, 59, from Ayrshire, had become so frail that two packs of the dissolving crisps were the only food she could stomach each day.

Teenager, 19, dies after car is hit by falling tree amid high winds in Storm Eowyn

found 2025 › Jan › 26 (Sun) @ 13:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The 19-year-old man was driving a blue Ford Focus on the B743 near Mauchline, Ayrshire, when the car was struck around 6.45am on Friday.

Sir Rod Stewart leaves King Charles in hysterics as the monarch pretends to poke the 80-year-old rocker with garden shears

found 2025 › Jan › 16 (Thu) @ 16:04 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

King Charles met with Sir Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster at Dumfries House in Ayrshire on Wednesday to mark the 35th anniversary of the launch of The King's Foundation.