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FREE TO USE PUBLICITY PICS. 23/3/2022. Dandelion Festivals announcement, at Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow. Pic shows: members of "Hen Hoose" collective, L-R: Signy, Emma Pollock, and Jayda.

Dandelion to bring two free festivals to Scotland

Two major free outdoor festivals will take place this summer in Glasgow and Inverness. They are part of Dandelion, an ambitious creative programme taking place...

The real-life adventures of presenter Simon Reeve

In Journeys to Impossible Places, best-selling author and presenter Simon Reeve reveals the inside story of his most astonishing adventures and experiences, around the planet and...
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A variety of beautiful objects going under the hammer

April is a busy month at McTear's auction house in Glasgow. At Style & Taste: Fine Furniture & Works of Art on 28 April, lot...

Making a big impression with Les Dawson tribute

Actor, comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw is coming to Scotland this summer with a new show. Les Dawson: Flying High is an homage, and celebration...
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More than 1,200 international performers from more than ten nations will open the show at Edinburgh Castle this Friday (3 August). 

This year’s Tattoo (3-25 August) will celebrate ‘The Sky’s the Limit’ taking audiences on a journey of human evolution to man’s greatest achievements. The theme will mark Scotland’s Year of Young People and pay homage to the RAF’s centenary.

Top Secret Drum Corps are heading to the Tattoo

Swiss drumming sensation, The Top Secret Drum Corps, has been revealed as the first confirmed international act to take to the Castle Esplanade when The...

Free food for the first 100 customers at Glasgow eaterie

While we may not have the Mediterranean weather, Glasgow's newest grab-and-go restaurant, Gyros, is heating up Byres Road. Spearheaded by the team behind the ever...

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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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...