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Have fun with a more wholesome Trainspotting

This novel reads like a slightly more wholesome version of ‘Trainspotting’. Set around the Spey Bay Viaduct in Moray, Bennett charts the adventures of ‘The...

Contrasting life in South Africa and a Scottish island

Ardnish is the third in Angus MacDonald’s trilogy. It follows the final days of old veteran Donald John Gillies as he lies on his deathbed...
Scottish Field podcast guests Peter Ranscombe (left) and David Bishop

We talk wine, whisky and writing in our second podcast

Scottish Field has just released the second edition of our new weekly podcast. This features web editor and podcast host Kenny Smith is joined by...
The interior of The Blue House in Biggar, with a stunning bedroom (Photo: IWC Media / Andrew Jackson)

Scotland’s Home of the Year returns to our screens

The search for Scotland’s Home of the Year is on again. The judges, interior designer Anna Campbell Jones, architect Michael Angus and blogger Kate Spiers,...
James Morrison attending his last exhibition with daughter Judith  (Photo: Montrose Pictures)

A celebration of Scottish artist James Morrison

A new documentary looking at the work of Scots artist James Morrison is being shown on television this week. Eye of the Storm is a...
Anna Starkey, Collections Care Manager, National Museums Scotland brushes a polar bear (Photo: Stewart Attwood)

Scottish museums ready themselves for reopening

Three major Scottish museums are set to reopen at the end of April with the easing of Covid lockdown measures. The National Museum of Scotland,...

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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...
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...