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A fascinating look at the life of the shearwater

A beautiful mix of memoir and natural history, Roger Morgan-Grenville explores the life of the majestic shearwater. He follows it as it travels solo from...

A murder mystery that will grip you from page one

A gripping addition to the crime genre, Lies to Tell is mystery writing at its finest. Author Marion Todd, who is originally from Dundee, knows...

A light-hearted tale set in the Scottish Highlands

The Peacock is light-hearted read set in a dilapidated castle in the Highlands. Following a group of investment bankers who rent out a space for...
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The Butcher’s Cut is a unique cut above the rest

There's a first for Scotland as a food hall butcher and restaurant have teamed up for a unique choose-your-own-steak menu offering. It’s a fine-dining collaboration...
A one-tonne wicker Beltie bull, hand sculpted in Dumfries and Galloway, is coming home (Photo: Colin Hattersley)

Three-metre tall willow bull makes its way home

A one-tonne wicker Beltie bull which earned international stardom at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Showcase is soon to start a homecoming tour of Dumfries and Galloway....
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Piping Live! is going strong as restrictions lift

This year’s Piping Live! got underway at the weekend. And as Scotland enters a new phase of freedom, the Glasgow festival is set to host...

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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...