LATEST POSTS
Langholm Moor extension for community buyout
THE Langholm Moor community buyout has been given an extra two months to raise the money it needs to purchase 5,300 acres in Dumfriesshire. The...
Guernsey liberator’s family travel from Scotland for commemoration
GUERNSEY will today mark the anniversary of its liberation from Nazi Germany on 9 May 1945 - and a Scottish family will be in attendance....
‘Phoenix’ bird hide rises from the ashes at Loch Leven
THE "Phoenix" birdwatching hide at Loch Leven national nature reserve (NNR) was opened officially on Friday. Mike Cantlay, chair of Nature Scot, the Scottish Government...
Museum & Heritage Awards shortlist three Scottish sites
THE Museum & Heritage Awards have named a trio of Scottish sites on its shortlist. The David Livingston Birthplace at Blantyre in South Lanarkshire is...
WHISKY
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK
Ardnahoe Distillery: First whisky to come from a new distillery on Islay since 2009 released
It has been six decades since Stewart Laing first learned how to make whisky on Islay. In the 1960s he travelled to the world-famous whisky...
Kiefer Sutherland: Hollywood star brings new whisky to the UK
Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland has unveiled his new whisky to the UK, a homage to his Canadian roots and love of the spirit. The whisky,...
Life With Isle of Harris Distillery: ‘The Hearach is special, it has done so much for the island’
Isle of Harris distiller Thomas Macrae talks to us about his earliest memories of whisky and why The Hearach is so special to islanders. And...
Lerwick Distillery: Shetland set for its first whisky distillery
The idea began more than a decade ago when friends Martin Watt, Caroline MacIntyre and Calum Miller came up with the idea to open the...
