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Garden design firm recognised in national awards

A Scots garden design and landscaping company, Papillon, has been shortlisted for four awards in this year’s Association of Professional Landscapers’ Awards. Three projects in...

KT Tunstall joins the line-up for Burns&Beyond

KT Tunstall, Blue Rose Code and Pictish Trail have been added to this year's Burns&Beyond event. Unique Events, organisers of Burns&Beyond with Johnnie Walker, today...
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Today’s the last chance to see Linda McCartney’s work

The Linda McCartney Retrospective - a major photographic exhibition, which is curated by Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney - closes in Glasgow today. Located at...
Interiors

Brighten your home this new year with houseplants

The New Year provides us with an ideal reason to revitalise our homes, bringing with it a sense of renewal and the promise of spring....
Mosse breeds and train Border Collies (Photo: Angus Blackburn)

From ballet dancing to One Man and his Dog

From ballet dancing to being a rock star, champion sheepdog trialist Mosse Magnusson has had a dizzyingly eclectic career. Not many shepherds can say they...

The games master who enjoys a good Stramash

Tony Mitchell took a homemade board game that he used to play with his friends and turned it into an international hit. Mention the word...

WHISKY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

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...
HRH Prince Charles with Ian Urquhart Signing First Cask at Benromach.

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...
Ewan, Jamie, Charlie and Lachlan Maclean.

Charles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons

Scotland's leading whisky writer Charles Maclean has launched a new dram - and every bottle sold will give at least one person clean water for...
Chef Tom Kitchin. Credit Marc Miller

Me and My Dram, Tom Kitchin: ‘You have to be in the right moment to enjoy whisky, that’s the magic of it’

Following a rocky start, celebrity chef Tom Kitchin has fostered an enduring love for whisky, finds Morag Bootland. He sits down with us for the latest...
The first legal dram from the Outer Hebridean Isle of Harris, The Hearach offers an elegant single malt, with fruit and floral notes and a long, slightly smoky, finish.

Isle of Harris: Distillery releases four new batches of the long awaited Hearach whisky

Last year the first batches of the long awaited Isle of Harris whisky sold out in less than five hours – after more than 25,000...
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Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

It was closed three decades ago in 1993, but now the ‘King of the Lowlands’, Rosebank Distillery is to reopen.  The historic distillery has been...