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Top poets support StAnza’s Scotland’s Young Makars project

StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, has launched an innovative mentoring programme in the new year to nurture up and coming poetic talent. Scotland’s Young Makars...

Ten Scottish tales to appeal to children

Acclaimed children’s writer Lari Don retells ten spellbinding fables from across Scotland. She showcase the magic of Scottish storytelling as we meet fairies and selkies,...

New beer supports Doddie Weir’s foundation

A new beer is being released, to support the charity of former Scotland rugby hero Doddie Weir. St Andrews Brewing Company have announced the release...
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A busy year awaits with packed Scottish Ballet schedule

After a year and a half of focusing on its already prolific digital and film output, Scottish Ballet returned to stages in autumn 2021 to...

The family who swapped London for the West Highlands

Eric Macleod brings his remarkable memoir of his family’s years spent living in the remote West Highlands up to date in this second edition. A...
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Saving the Leighton Library – Dunblane’s best kept secret

A campaign to help raise £400,000 to help pay for restoration and conservation work at a historic Scottish library has been launched. The Leighton Library...

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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...