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Young people wanted to head for the ocean waves

The search is on for young Scots who want to experience a life changing sailing adventure. An organisation providing funded training opportunities alongside one of...

Spring Fling ready to return after a two-year gap

Ninety-six artists and makers set to welcome back the public for Dumfries and Galloway’s big celebration of creativity. The full line-up  has been unveiled for...
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Opera Highlights starts its tour of Scotland

A new vaudeville-inspired Opera Highlights show takes to the roads of Scotland today, as it begins a tour of 18 local venues, including in the...
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When The Grass Dances is a new online exhibition

Poet Valerie Gillies and artist Rebecca Marr have created a new collection that invites people to walk with them among the grasses through their online...
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Winter Olympic hopeful wins Youth Mountain Award

Organisers of the Fort William Mountain Festival are delighted to announce that Kirsty Muir, an Scottish elite freestyle skier is the eighth recipient of The...

The March 2022 Scottish Field is out now

The best of Scotland is at the heart of the March 2022 edition of Scottish Field. We meet Gordon Ramsay, as the straight-talking multi Michelin...

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...
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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...
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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...