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Marchmont readies for first 2022 Open Studios event

The first of two 2022 Open Studios events at Marchmont House will offer the chance to meet artists and makers of all kinds - and...
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New work celebrating the birth and life of Earth

A new exhibition by contemporary artist Katie Paterson that tells the birth and life of our planet in a single object is to go on...
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Royal Scots Club announce first guests of 2022

The Royal Scots Club have announced the first of their Literary Lunches in 2022 will feature Louise Welsh discussing her latest book The Second Cut....
Musician and broadcaster Gary Innes and Highland and dancer Rachel McLaggan at the OVO Hydro to launch WORLD’S BIGGEST CEILIDH

The world’s biggest ceilidh is coming to Glasgow

The world’s biggest ceilidh will take place in The Ovo Hydro later this year. Entitled Hoolie in the Hydro, the night will feature some of...

Edwardian artist’s work rediscovered in Highland vault

The work of a long-forgotten Edwardian artist has been discovered in an attic in the Highlands of Scotland. Sir Christopher Spink, an artist who created...

Up, up and away as balloon adventures return

Webster Adventures, Scotland’s premier hot air ballooning company, has started its 2022 ballooning season. Following the pandemic, this is the first time in two years...

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...