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How upcycled firearms have become a work of art

Culture
Award-winning Scottish contemporary artist Frank To will exhibit publicly the first ever artwork made from Humanium Metal - an alloy created from upcycled illegal firearms...

Golden Shears competition coming to Royal Highland Show

Outdoors
The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland has announced that Lister Shearing will be official equipment and clothing sponsor of the Golden Shears Sheep...

Inside the Scottish Field website and a fascinating new series

Culture
Scottish Field's weekly podcast goes inside our own website this week, as well as highlighting a fascinating new podcast series. Website editor Kenny Smith chats...
African objects used for ceremonies and defence, part of the David Livingstone Birthplace collection (Photo: Kat Gollock)

David Livingstone Birthplace Museum set to re-open

Culture
The David Livingstone Birthplace in South Lanarkshire is to reopen on Wednesday July 28. Home to one of Scotland’s most famous explorers, the museum will...
Damon Albarn (Photo: Linda Brownlee)

Edinburgh International Festival unveils line-up

Culture
Edinburgh International Festival, the world’s leading performing arts festival, pioneers the return of live performance in Scotland. From August 7–29 it will feature a diverse...

Digital buzz in a week-long arts programme

Culture
Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre are presenting the Digital Buzz Festival, a week-long programme celebrating the creative output of the various performing arts groups...
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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...
Ewan, Jamie, Charlie and Lachlan Maclean.

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...
Rosebank Distillery.

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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