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A new take on the Battle of Bannockburn
In Scotland, history and politics often become entangled. For some, the past is a source of inspiration for the future. For others, it becomes a...
Burns Supper live online from his birthplace
The National Trust for Scotland is hosting the only online Burns Night event to come from the bard’s birthplace in Alloway. Step through the screen...
Up against the clock to see some exhibitions
Scottish National Portrait Gallery is hosting a number of exhibitions - but time is running out to see some of them. Thomas Joshua Cooper -...
New performance venue on the way with the Dunard Centre
The Dunard Centre is set to be Edinburgh’s first purpose-built music and performance venue in over 100 years. The City of Edinburgh Council have approved...
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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...