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Locavore wins BBC Food & Farming Award

LOCAVORE, a social enterprise in Central Scotland, has won the best shop prize at the BBC Food & Farming Awards. The judges hailed Locavore for...

Strathallan hails British Horse Vaulting Champion

STRATHALLAN School in Perthshire is celebrating the victory of one of its pupils at the British Horse Vaulting Championships. Eva Sinclair, 12, began horse vaulting...

Langholm Initiative completes community buyout

THE Langholm Initiative has hailed a "moment of history and hope" after completing its £2.2 million purchase of 5,300 acres in Dumfries & Galloway from...

Glasgow’s Custom House is turned into a hotel

IRISH hotel brand Clayton has opened its first site in Scotland inside Glasgow's Custom House. The category-A listed building on the banks of the River...

Twelve Triangles serves up Melrose expansion

BAKERY chain Twelve Triangles has chosen Melrose for its first branch outside Edinburgh. The new shop in the Borders takes the company's total number of...

Nevis Range signs Andorra snowsports deal

NEVIS Range has today unveiled a reciprocal deal with Andorra. Under the agreement, Nevis Range's 2022-23 season pass holders will get a free day of...

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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...