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Sir Harry Lauder – a treasure or an embarrassment?
To many people he was a national icon but for others he was an embarrassment – and even today Sir Harry Lauder splits opinion. It...
When composer Mendelssohn came to Scotland
As was the wont of wealthy young gentlemen of the time, the composer Felix Mendelssohn went on a grand journey. This book has a subtitle...
Go Dance festival returns to Glasgow’s Theatre Royal
Community dance festival, Go Dance returns to the Glasgow's Theatre Royal next week following a two-year hiatus. Produced by Theatre Royal’s Creative Learning team, Go...
Taste of Grampian returns with celebrity chefs and new venue
The north-east’s biggest food and drink festival is back, returning after a two-year absence due to Covid. Taste of Grampian moves to Aberdeen’s P&J Live...
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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...
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...
