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A new dawn for an iconic Edinburgh building

Homebuyers have the chance to move into an  iconic building. Donaldson’s is set amidst 18 acres of elegant grounds and is dominated by the central...
Quality Meat Scotland has published Steaks – Your Perfect Guide

Now it’s so easy to cook your perfect steak

A new guide to help cook the perfect Scotch Beef PGI steak has been released. Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has launched a new guide to...

Exhibition puts the female body at its centre

There's still time to catch the an exhibition of work on the female body and its links to nature, currently showing in Edinburgh. Edinburgh-based Jannica...
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Doctor Who star steps back in time to Dunoon childhood

He's a Scot who's known all over the planet Earth, having saving the world more times than he cares to remember. Sylvester McCoy played the...

An alternative take on Mary Queen of Scots

Book review: Mary Queen of Scots - A Study in Failure By Jenny Wormald What’s the story? Mary Queen of Scots is a highly detailed and...

When business boomed for the Archangels

Book review: The Archangels Share By Kenny Kemp, Graham Lironi and Peter Shakeshaft What’s the story? The book tells the tale of Archangels, a business...

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Scottish star Ewan McGregor raises £135k for charity after auctioning off 150 bottles of whisky

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor has raised £135,000 for charity after auctioning 150 bottles of whisky from his own personal cask at Lochranza Distillery. Some 543...
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Isle of Harris Distillery releases second expression of The Hearach

The Isle of Harris Distillery has released the second permanent expression within The Hearach single malt range, The Hearach Oloroso Cask. It comes a year...
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A Tale of Two Islands: The latest drams from the Isle of Raasay and Lochranza distillery

Over the past few months there have been some new whisky releases, two of which James Robertson was lucky enough to have a chance to...
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Q&A with Karuizawa’s Master Distiller, Yoshiyuki Nakazato

Founded in 1955 in Miyota, Japan, a small town with a humid continental climate located on the foothills of Mount Asama in the Nagano Prefecture,...
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Scottish star Ewan McGregor to auction 150 bottles of whisky from his personal cask at Lochranza Distillery

Scottish star Ewan McGregor is set to auction 150 bottles of whisky from his own personal cask at Lochranza Distillery for charity. The rare 26...
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The Macallan releases rare 84 Year Old dram – its oldest ever whisky

The Macallan has released a rare 84 Year Old dram - the oldest whisky to come from the distillery. The whisky, from 1940, forms part...

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