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Scottish Fisheries Museum looks at El Niño

Culture | Scotland
A new exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum is set to bust negative images of the extreme weather phenomenon El Niño. It will show the...
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New musical work sought to celebrate Year of Stories

Culture | Music
Iconic stories, people and places across the Highlands and Islands will be celebrated this year in a new piece of music to be performed during...

Scots Audie Award nominee chats with our podcast

Culture
Three Scots were given some very good news recently, and we meet one of them in our latest podcast. The Audio Publishers Association’s finalists for...
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An emotional and hopeful portrait of depression

Culture | Scotland
In April 2021, with Glasgow's Tron Theatre unable to programme live theatre, it embarked upon a short, development season where they offered up time and...
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Artist Frances in the running for £15,000 prize

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A Scots artist is in the running for a prestigious prize - and needs your votes. Frances Priest, who is based in Edinburgh, is a...

International writers coming to the Highlands

Culture
This spring, Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre will be host to a thriving hub of international literature, as it welcomes writers from across the globe as...
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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

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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

Cask and Still | Whisky
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

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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’

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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

Cask and Still | 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...
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Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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...
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