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Celebrating St Andrew’s Day at the home of the saltire

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A festival celebrating St Andrew's Day and the very best of Scottish history, heritage, culture, film, music and food is set to take place later...

‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’ – we mark the occasion in our podcast

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This week's Scottish Field podcast marks an important moment in history. One hundred and fifty years to the day since Henry Morgan Stanley found the...
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Scottish Ballet returns with The Nutcracker

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Festive family favourite The Nutcracker is returning this winter for Scottish Ballet’s biggest tour yet. Rescheduled from 2020, The Nutcracker makes its long-awaited return to...
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Nevis Ensemble tours Nevis Water Stories

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Nevis Ensemble is to give 60 chamber music concerts in nine of Scotland’s local authorities as the culmination of the orchestra’s Nevis Water Stories projects...
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Sam’s incredible woodwork will wow and impress

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Sam Bowsher is a 23-year-old chainsaw carver from the south of Scotland. The youngest son of 'Chainsaw Pete' aka Pete Bowsher – a well known...
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World’s first UNESCO trail launched in Scotland

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The world’s first ever UNESCO trail, bringing together some of Scotland’s most iconic, diverse and culturally significant sites, has been launched. Scotland’s UNESCO Trail connects...
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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...
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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’

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

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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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