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Fathers’ Day Mandles
If you’re looking for a last minute Fathers’ Day gift you could do worse than delight your Dad with a gift from Yankee Candle’s Barbershop range. These candles – or ‘mandles’ – have been specifically created with woody and masculine scents. Reminiscent of a traditional barbershop, fragrances include Aftershave, Hair Tonic and Sandalwood. These candles…
Read MoreMains of Taymouth Country Estate & Golf Course take home ‘Paws for a Break Pet Friendly Award’
EmbraceScotland is one of the country’s most popular booking websites for self catering accommodation across Scotland. In a new award, to reflect the importance that holidaymakers place on being able to bring their four legged friends on holiday with them, EmbraceScotland asked their customers to nominate their favourite pet-friendly self-catering properties. With a short list…
Read MoreTropical Scotland
It may seem that the sun is only ever a brief visitor to our shores, but even if your holiday plans don’t involve more than a quick camping trip to the wonderful west coast, it’s time to think about protecting your skin. Tropic Tinted Skin Shade is a tinted facial sunscreen with factor 50 protection…
Read MoreEdinburgh’s first single malt whisky distillery for 90 years launches fundraising drive
UK investors have the opportunity to invest in a brand new single malt whisky and spirits distillery which will see malt distilling brought back to Edinburgh for the first time in 90 years. Holyrood Distillery has launched a £5.5 million funding drive to help fund the balance of its ambition to create a distillery and…
Read MoreUltimate five-star luxury in Royal Deeside
A self-catering home in Royal Deeside has been awarded five stars from VisitScotland before the first guest has even set foot in the cottage. The Invergarry, Aboyne has just launched to the market for the summer season. Converted from an Edwardian gardener’s cottage, it is surrounded by the hills and close to the River Dee…
Read MoreNatural Selection prepares to launch 2017 beer
Peter Ranscombe finds out more about Natural Selection, a partnership between Stewart Brewing in Loanhead and Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh to train the next wave of brewers. SCOTLAND’S craft brewing scene is thriving – there are more than 115 breweries dotted throughout the country, the highest number for more than a century. Gordon Brown’s introduction…
Read MoreSearching for regionality in English sparkling wine
To mark the start of English wine week tomorrow, Peter Ranscombe ponders whether it’s possible to spot regional identity in the country’s sparkling wines ASK a connoisseur of Champagne about their favourite bottles and more likely than not they’ll start waxing lyrical about the different areas that make up the famous French sparkling wine region.…
Read MoreDon’t miss the Corstorphine Festival this weekend (28 May to 3 June)
This weekend (28 May) sees the start of the week long Corstorphine Festival which takes place until 3 June. Much of Corstorphine will be dressed to impress, lavished in beautiful knitted articles – yarn bombed! Daily activities will take place at a range of venues across Corstorphine.…
Read MoreThe Marriage of Kim K comes to the Edinburgh Festival
Leoe & Hyde, the pioneering contemporary music theatre company renowned for mixing dramatic innovation with pop-cultural subversion, will tour their most ambitious project yet this summer; a fearlessly caustic satire fusing the most vaunted production in the history of classical opera with one of pop culture’s most explosively tragicomic unions: The Marriage of Kim K.…
Read MoreHunter Laing unveils six exceptionally rare Islay whiskies and a new shop at Feis Ile
The Kinship range will be exclusively available at Hunter Laing’s new shop on Islay and marks the start of work on Ardnahoe Distillery on the island Hunter Laing has unveiled ‘The Kinship’, a range of six bottlings of exceptionally rare Islay whiskies, which will only be sold at their new shop on Islay during and…
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