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Scots to cycle from Edinburgh to Rome in aid of My Name’5 Doddie Foundation

A group of seven friends will cycle more than 2700 km from Edinburgh to Rome in aid of Motor Neurone Disease charity, My Name’5 Doddie...
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New evidence discovered of Jacobite siege of Stirling Castle

New evidence of the last ever siege of Stirling Castle by Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army is believed to have been discovered at the city’s...
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Slow Horses star Jack Lowden returns to stage in home country after ten years

Scottish star Jack Lowden is set to return to the stage in his home country for the first time in a decade when he makes...
Borders Art Fair (BAF) 2023 Saturday Event, Borders Events Centre, Kelso, 18/03/2023:
Jo Crossland of Scottish Stone Carvers.
Photography for Borders Art Fair from: Colin Hattersley Photography - www.colinhattersley.com - cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.

Borders Art Fair: Scotland’s Friendliest Art Fair Invites You to Discover the Beautiful Borders

Scotland’s friendliest art fair is set to return with more than 70 artists and galleries, from across the Borders and as far apart as Aberdeenshire...
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New Ewan McGregor movies to premiere at Glasgow Film Festival

Two new Ewan McGregor movies are to be premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival later this year. The Trainspotting actor will star alongside his daughter...
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World’s Toughest Row: Scottish man rows 3,000 miles across the Atlantic

A Scottish businessman who rowed 3,000 miles across the Atlantic has told of enduring blistering heat and massive 12 metre waves - which capsized his...

WHISKY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

Since its humble beginnings nearly ten years ago, the distillery has generated £50,000 for the local community.

GlenWyvis: World’s first fully community owned distillery offers whisky lovers chance to buy shares

In 2015, former Army Air Corps helicopter pilot John McKenzie decided to bring whisky back to Dingwall after a 90 year absence. His idea was...
HRH Prince Charles with Ian Urquhart Signing First Cask at Benromach.

Former Gordon & MacPhail chief Ian Urquhart dies following an illness

Scotch whisky legend Ian Urquhart has died aged 76. The Moray based businessman died peacefully on 15 March after an illness, with his family by...
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Charles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons

Scotland's leading whisky writer Charles Maclean has launched a new dram - and every bottle sold will give at least one person clean water for...
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Me and My Dram, Tom Kitchin: ‘You have to be in the right moment to enjoy whisky, that’s the magic of it’

Following a rocky start, celebrity chef Tom Kitchin has fostered an enduring love for whisky, finds Morag Bootland. He sits down with us for the latest...
The first legal dram from the Outer Hebridean Isle of Harris, The Hearach offers an elegant single malt, with fruit and floral notes and a long, slightly smoky, finish.

Isle of Harris: Distillery releases four new batches of the long awaited Hearach whisky

Last year the first batches of the long awaited Isle of Harris whisky sold out in less than five hours – after more than 25,000...
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Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

It was closed three decades ago in 1993, but now the ‘King of the Lowlands’, Rosebank Distillery is to reopen.  The historic distillery has been...