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Only 6000 bottles of winter botanical gin available
Red Door Highland Gin has released a small batch limited edition bottling – the first release in a range of limited seasonal flavours – handcrafted at Benromach Distillery in Forres. Only 6000 bottles of Red Door Highland Gin with Winter Botanicals (45% ABV/70cl) will be released for sale, carefully crafted behind the Forres distillery’s iconic…
Read MoreExperience Christmas like Royalty this year
This December, visitors to the Palace of Holyroodhouse will see the State Apartments transformed with shimmering Christmas trees, twinkling lights and a range of activities to celebrate the festive season. Christmas at the Palace of Holyroodhouse will run from 6 December until 6 January 2020. The festive decorations at the Palace of Holyroodhouse will include…
Read MoreA well located small estate with so much scope
An outstanding small residential estate with striking views and sporting capabilities is now on the property market. Presents for sale by Savills, Mains of Tilliefoure is a compact and well located residential estate with considerable amenity, sporting, farming and woodland interests, extending to some 135.53 acres. It is situated within a most attractive part of…
Read MoreMaggie’s mourns loss of co-founder Charles Jencks
Tributes have been paid to Charles Jencks, the co-founder and director of Maggie’s, the charity which provides free practical and emotional support for people living with cancer. The architectural historian died on 13 October at his home in London. He was 80. Charles was a renowned cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian and co-founder, alongside…
Read MoreThe Great Borders River Clean needs helpers
A bid to clean up rivers in the Scottish Borders is taking place later this month. Tom Rawson, a teacher at St Mary’s School in Melrose, is calling on people from across the Borders to join a mass effort to help clean plastic pollution from the region’s waterways. On Sunday 27 October, towns and villages…
Read MoreMarking 40 years since closure of Mackintosh school
Forty years after the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Scotland Street School closed, organisers hope to attract a record number of former pupils to the annual reunion. This year’s event takes place from noon–3pm this Saturday, 19 October. Last year’s reunion, which took place in the 150th anniversary year of Mackintosh’s birth, attracted over 60 people…
Read MoreScotch beef back on the menu in Japan
Japan may have got one over on Scotland at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday, but there was some good news for the nation in Asia. Scotch Beef PGI, one of Scotland’s most iconic foods, is back on the menu in Japan for the first time in over 20 years. An order of Scotch Beef…
Read MoreThe scares are stacking up this Halloween
The pancake pioneers Stack & Still, who opened their third pancake branch in Glasgow last weekend, announced details of their seasonal Halloween stacks and its pretty spooktacular. This Halloween, adults and children alike can enjoy the pancake pioneers limited edition Halloween stacks from 31 October to 1 November for £9.50. The Halloween stack is an…
Read MoreTwo rare Macallan Lalique sell for £100K+ each
Two rare bottles of one of the world’s most sought-after whiskies sold at auction in Edinburgh for over £100,000 each. Two bottles of the Macallan Lalique 50-year-old both sold on Wednesday, making £100,062 each including buyer’s premium. The Lalique 50 year old is the first of The Lalique Six Pillars Collection of the distillery’s rarest…
Read MoreBeach polo tournament arrives next week
Elie beach is set to provide a picturesque setting for the inaugural Scotland’s Cavalry Polo Tournament next weekend. On Saturday, 19 October, the free event hosted by The Ship Inn will see the polo clubs from The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards pitted against The Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry and The University of St Andrews…
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