NEWS

Credit: Rachel Bolton.

Faces of Edinburgh: We find out what people love about the Scottish capital

‘This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again,’ Alexander...
Annika 2

Life With a horologist: ‘In watchmaking you can’t cut corners or learn things overnight, it takes time’

Laings watchmaker Annika Leppala on following in her grandfather's footsteps as a horologist, learning the art of patience in a world full of immediacy and...
Melissa Curran helps care for Pollok Country Park's herd of 73 Highland Cows.

Life With Pollok Country Park: ‘I have the joy of working with one of the best known cattle breeds in the world’

Fourteen years ago Melissa Curran was a city girl who had never been around cattle. Now, an assistant livestock supervisor, she helps care for Pollok...
Credit: Dundee Heritage Trust

Photo Essay: Dundee’s heritage and nature

Dundee Heritage Trust will host the latest International Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition, at Verdant Works Museum this year. Alongside IGPOTY Exhibition 17, images...
Cal Major has travelled 800 miles around Scotland’s wild coast on a paddleboard.

Life With Cal Major: ‘I look forward to the day I look out my window in the Highlands and see dolphins and whales’

Adventurer, vet and ocean advocate Cal Major has travelled 800 miles around Scotland’s wild coast on a paddleboard. Along the way, she made shocking discoveries,...
Culloden, Inverness. Credit: National Trust for Scotland

Culloden Battlefield: Clan Chief’s shoe buckle among new discoveries

Archaeologists have unearthed fascinating new artefacts from the Culloden Battlefield - including a clan chief's shoe buckle. Researchers working around a 60 square-metre area close...

The best way to keep your gin safe is… in a safe

Edinburgh Gin has launched a limited-edition ‘gin safe' that transforms the gift of gin into a personalised game, making unwrapping Christmas presents more magical than...
The 750-mile Drake Passage has been dubbed 'The Impossible Row'.

Edinburgh entrepreneur sets off on world’s ‘Impossible Row’

I love nothing more than an adventure story. Even better, tales of real-life explorers intent on pushing the physical and mental boundaries of mankind. Trading...

Paths will close to remove diseased ash trees

Pathways on Arran are to be closed in the coming weeks to remove diseased ash trees. Forestry and Land Scotland’s Arran-based team has advised that...
Neil Mowat, UK marketing director of Ian Macleod Distillers (Photo: Neil Hanna)

Edinburgh Gin launches first TV advert

Edinburgh Gin has today launched its biggest-ever brand campaign, Filled with Wonder. Featuring its first-ever TV spot, which will debut exclusively on Channel 4, the...
Sonja Mitchell, founder, Jump Ship Brewing (Photo: Chris Watt)

Yardarm launched by nation’s first alcohol free brewer

Scotland’s first alcohol-free brewing company, Jump Ship Brewing, has today launched Yardarm. The launch comes after a successful crowdfunding campaign, supported by RBS BackHerBusiness, which...
Prop2

A modernised home in a small steading

An attractive modernised home, which forms part of a small exclusive steading development, is now for sale. Presented by Galbraith, 1 Mains of Camno Steading...