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New appointment at Scotland’s Rural College

A new appointment to Scotland’s Rural College will help the institution enhance and develop its business-led research portfolio and academia to business engagement. Dr Susannah...

Be Your Best Self backs Scotswomen in farming

There's spaces available on a course through a scheme that supports women living or working in agriculture in Scotland to build their confidence and enhance...

West End hit School of Rock comes to Scotland

School of Rock - The Musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash hit, Olivier Award-winning West End show will, open at Theatre Royal in Glasgow next week....

Live crime fiction festival returned to Scotland

The sixth outing of Granite Noir, Aberdeen’s International Crime Writing Festival, came to a close last night. Organisers were delighted with the success of the...

Maggie Alphonsi MBE to mark International Women’s Day

Maggie Alphonsi, the face of international women’s rugby, is to help celebrate International Women’s Day in Scotland. She will open a stellar line up of...
Kirsty Muir at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games on the 1st February 2022 at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjakou, China. Photo by Sam Mellish / Team GB.

Winter Olympics star backs Here We Snow campaign

Beijing Winter Olympics ski star Kirsty Muir has called on Scots to hit the slopes as she joins a campaign to encourage more people to...

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...
Ewan, Jamie, Charlie and Lachlan Maclean.

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...