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Mackie’s of Scotland

EVERYONE loves Mackie’s of Scotland ice cream, crisps, popcorn, and chocolates - after all, they are one of Scotland’s top five foods brands, and the...

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THE classic telephone box. Since the advent of the mobile phone, you now see communities transform them into everything from lending libraries to mini greenhouses....

Shipton Mill flour

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Tayport Distillery

TAYPORT Distillery is a family business, born out of love for fine food and drink and a mission to use the best locally sourced ingredients...

The Wee Tea Company

’TIS the season for tea, and for the true connoisseur, it has to be The Wee Tea Company. The Wee Tea Company was founded in...
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Firefighting with Scotland’s first female gamekeeping lecturer

Sophie Clark, Scotland's first female gamekeeping lecturer, shares the story of why she's also a retained firefighter. I GREW up in the small harbour village...

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Ardnahoe Distillery: First whisky to come from a new distillery on Islay since 2009 released

It has been six decades since Stewart Laing first learned how to make whisky on Islay. In the 1960s he travelled to the world-famous whisky...
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Kiefer Sutherland: Hollywood star brings new whisky to the UK

Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland has unveiled his new whisky to the UK, a homage to his Canadian roots and love of the spirit. The whisky,...
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Life With Isle of Harris Distillery: ‘The Hearach is special, it has done so much for the island’

Isle of Harris distiller Thomas Macrae talks to us about his earliest memories of whisky and why The Hearach is so special to islanders. And...
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Lerwick Distillery: Shetland set for its first whisky distillery

The idea began more than a decade ago when friends Martin Watt, Caroline MacIntyre and Calum Miller came up with the idea to open the...
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...