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Eilean Donan Castle by Francis Salvesen

Scots artist in the running for Royal Arts Prize 2020

Culture
Upcoming Scottish artist Francis Salvesen has been shortlisted for The Royal Arts Prize 2020. The aim of the Royal Arts Prize, running since 2014, is...

Royal Celtic Society members marked 200th birthday

Culture
An almost like-for-like gathering of 20 members marked 200 years to the week of the foundation of the Royal Celtic Society. The members gathered on...
One of Calum Colvin's artistic creations

Exhibition to celebrate Scots artist Calum Colvin

Culture
A celebratory exhibition of the career of one of Scotland's most innovative artists is opening this weekend. Royal Scottish Academy will host Calum Colvin -...
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Red Bull Neptune Steps offers a New Year challenge

Outdoors
Looking for a new challenge in the new year? Glasgow’s Maryhill Locks will once again be host to the UK’s toughest open water swimming challenge,...

The Pig Rock Bothy to move on after six years

Culture
After nearly six years, Pig Rock Bothy - the wooden structure alongside the path up to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art One -...
Karen Darke on expedition in Ethiopia

2020 Peebles Outdoor Film Festival revealed

Outdoors
Female adventurers will take centre stage at the 2020 Peebles Outdoor Film Festival. Hand cycling Paralympic gold medallist Karen Darke, natural history presenter Miranda Krestovnikoff,...
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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

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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

Cask and Still | Whisky
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

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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’

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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

Cask and Still | 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...
Rosebank Distillery.

Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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...
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