Bullying claim in gardens row
The plans by the Aberdeen City Garden Trust to turn the Victorian gardens into a futuristic parkland called the Granite Web has already left the city bitterly divided in the run-up to next month’s crucial referendum vote.
But it has now emerged that senior figures behind the £140 million scheme, including Tom Smith, chairman of the local economic forum, have called in Grampian Police to investigate claims that they have been subject to online bullying, personal attacks and intimidation by opponents of the project.