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Rare Hepworth sketch given in private art auction

The personal art collection of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a leading figure of the St Ives School of artists, is to be sold live online and in...
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Burns&Beyond festival gets ready for a big return

Burns&Beyond - Edinburgh’s flagship Burns festival - is returning in 2022. Organisers Unique Events have announced a series of live, in-person events for the festival...
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Offshore life comes ashore at Aberdeen Maritime Museum

As world leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow to discuss the climate emergency, a new display at Aberdeen Maritime Museum considers changes in the offshore...
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Try wild swimming to mark this Halloween

Over the past 12 months, wild swimming has enjoyed a near 300% surge in popularity as waves of new swimmers take the plunge. This Sunday,...

Spooky 19th century tales from a Scots writer

As Halloween approaches, we all like a little bit of a scare. Despite being a household name during the latter half of the 19th century,...

The amazing inside story of an extreme climber

This is the impressive autobiography of Jules Lines, Britain’s best solo free climber. Lines was born in Lisburn, near Belfast in Northern Ireland. When he...

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Former walled garden with links to Robert Burns and Winston Churchill to be brought back to life as distillery

A former walled garden within an historic estate with links to Robert Burns and Winston Churchill could soon be brought back to life as a...
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Restoration of endangered Castletown Mill reaches new milestone in becoming distillery

The endangered 19th-century Castletown Mill in Caithness has marked a significant milestone in its transformation, becoming wind and watertight for the first time in decades....
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Scottish star Ewan McGregor raises £135k for charity after auctioning off 150 bottles of whisky

Scottish actor Ewan McGregor has raised £135,000 for charity after auctioning 150 bottles of whisky from his own personal cask at Lochranza Distillery. Some 543...
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Isle of Harris Distillery releases second expression of The Hearach

The Isle of Harris Distillery has released the second permanent expression within The Hearach single malt range, The Hearach Oloroso Cask. It comes a year...
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A Tale of Two Islands: The latest drams from the Isle of Raasay and Lochranza distillery

Over the past few months there have been some new whisky releases, two of which James Robertson was lucky enough to have a chance to...
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Q&A with Karuizawa’s Master Distiller, Yoshiyuki Nakazato

Founded in 1955 in Miyota, Japan, a small town with a humid continental climate located on the foothills of Mount Asama in the Nagano Prefecture,...

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