Scotland
Tobermory Distillery unveils its new 24-year-old
Tobermory Distillery is today announcing the launch of its limited edition 24-Year-Old expression. This is the second release in the distillery’s highly collectible Hebridean Series, following the success of the award-winning Tobermory 23. Inspired by Mull’s 300-miles of stunning coastline and sea air, the Oloroso cask finish is a rare, limited release single malt, perfect…
Read MoreEaster fun returns to National Trust for Scotland
The National Trust for Scotland has announced the return of one of Scotland’s favourite family springtime events – the conservation charity’s popular Easter Egg Trails are back for the first time since 2019. The fun trails were, until the pandemic paused them after Easter 2019, a fixture of many families’ Spring holidays, with around 30,000…
Read MoreNational Whisky Festival of Scotland looking north
The National Whisky Festival of Scotland has announced it will return for another edition of its popular annual event in Aberdeen in September – part of a series of new plans for the festival in 2022. Following sell-out success in the city in 2021, Scotland’s definitive whisky tasting event and Scottish cultural festival will be…
Read MoreScottish Fisheries Museum looks at El Niño
A new exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum is set to bust negative images of the extreme weather phenomenon El Niño. It will show the fishing and farming opportunities it has brought to the Sechura Desert in Northern Peru and exploring how other communities might take a similar adaptive approach to the effects of climate…
Read MoreAn emotional and hopeful portrait of depression
In April 2021, with Glasgow’s Tron Theatre unable to programme live theatre, it embarked upon a short, development season where they offered up time and space to creatives to workshop potential future projects. As Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir had been engaged in 2020 as Mayfesto resident director but was unable to deliver this project due to…
Read MoreCelebrating the Scottish Winter Olympic gold – from 2002
With the 2022 Winter Olympics having just finished in China, BBC Scotland is celebrating a previous curling success. With Team GB having won gold in the women’s curling, and taken silver in the men’s, The Last Stone is an absorbing documentary which tells the story of one of the most memorable victories in the history…
Read MoreNew tourism drive for the south of Scotland
The South of Scotland Destination Alliance is bringing together the local tourism industry for its inaugural annual conference next month. The conference, on Tuesday, March 15 at Easterbrook Hall at The Crichton in Dumfries, will feature a series of workshops, networking events, panel discussions and talks exploring themes such as destination development, sustainability and place…
Read MoreA gripping read will chill you to the bones
Just five pages in, writer Helen Grant’s prose sets the heart racing. She depicts a claustrophobic’s worst nightmare, fromwhich point the reader is constantly on edge. Protagonist Fen Munro has moved to erthshire with her fiancé to escape London’s rat-race, only to find they are being watched by a figure dressed in lavender. Barr Dubh,…
Read MoreSotheby’s head to Edinburgh for valuations on March 4
From jewellery, watches, wine and spirits, Sotheby’s finds and sells the world’s finest luxury objects to a global audience of collectors. Their specialists provide confidential estimates to determine a luxury object’s potential at auction, guiding clients through every step of the consignment and sale process. The market for signed and vintage jewellery, as well as…
Read MoreVan Gogh Alive to transform Festival Square
Van Gogh Alive, a multi-sensory celebration of one of the world’s most enduring artists, is coming to the capital next month. It opens in Edinburgh’s Festival Square on March 17 and runs until July 17. Created by Grande Experiences, the exhibition makes its long-awaited arrival in Scotland after dazzling over 8 million people in 75…
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