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Cookery School of the Year title heads to Scotland

Edinburgh New Town Cookery School has been voted the top UK cookery school in the 2021 Food and Travel Magazine Reader Awards. Voted for by...
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Big names heading for the Big Burns Supper

Organisers of the Big Burns Supper have confirmed dates for the postponed winter fringe, which will now take place across four weekends between April and...

Strathallan Prep School opens new library on World Book Day

A new library unveiled today at Strathallan Prep School will open a new chapter of learning for children aged 7 to 13 years old. The...

Dining discounts for residents local to restaurant

Dornoch’s MARA restaurant is celebrating reopening after their winter break with the introductions of their new Local Produce for Local Patrons initiative. Throughout the months...
Adrian Turpin - Wigtown Book Festival Artistic Director, 22/09/2020:
Adrian Turpin, pictured outside the Wigtown Festival Company's office / shop in Wigtown.
Photography for Wigtown Book Festival Company from: Colin Hattersley Photography - www.colinhattersley.com - cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.

Scottish readers love their book festivals – it’s official

New research released for World Book Day reveals the immense contribution of the country’s book festivals and the importance of ensuring they can return to...

A well-researched look at who the Picts were

The first time I heard about the Picts, the ancient people of the North of Scotland, I was hooked. My dad told me all about...

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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...
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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...