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Scottish celebrities support Glasgow school’s online auction

A HOST of Scottish celebrities is supporting a silent auction to raise funds for an inner-city primary school in Glasgow. Alan Cumming, Sam Heughan, Sir...

Call for rural energy price support ‘parity’

RURAL communities in Scotland risk "falling between the cracks" in the UK Government's energy price support, according to Scottish Land & Estates (SLE). The membership...

Trossachs lookout tower gets funding

PLANS for a Trossachs lookout tower have been given a boost after securing a £231,000 grant. Funding for the project, which is being organsied by...

Scots charity reopens world’s most remote museum

A TEAM has completed its 8,000-mile journey to reopen the world's most remote museum on South Georgia. The Dundee-based South Georgia Heritage Trust runs the...
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Chopard exhibition opens at Laings in Edinburgh

LAINGS is hosting an exhibition in its Edinburgh branch featuring jewellery and watches made by Chopard. The Swiss brand is well known for designing the...
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Experts recommend their favourite autumn walks

A COLLECTION of autumn walks in Scotland has been recommended by the country's woodland experts. Members of staff from Forestry & Land Scotland, the Scottish...

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...
Chef Tom Kitchin. Credit Marc Miller

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...
Rosebank Distillery.

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...