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Holts Auctioneers – the leading auction house for sporting guns

Holts Auctioneers are Europe’s leading auction house for fine antique and modern sporting guns. They are based in charming premises on the Royal Estate at...

Holts Auctioneers for fine antique guns

Holts Auctioneers are Europe’s leading auction house for fine antique and modern sporting guns. They are based in charming premises on the Royal Estate at...

The leading auctioneers for fine antique guns

Holts Auctioneers are Europe’s leading auction house for fine antique and modern sporting guns. They are based in charming premises on the Royal Estate at...

A digital exhibition celebrates the art of Edinburgh

As galleries in Edinburgh and across the UK remain dark due to the ongoing pandemic, a new digital exhibition has opened providing a welcome cultural...

Reduce greenhouse gases by growing legumes

We all know that growing our own fruit and vegetables is good for our pockets - but it's good for the environment too. Growing peas...

An honest memoir of two complex relationships

In this posthumous memoir following her death in October 2019, Deborah Orr explores the deeply complex relationship she had with both her home town of...

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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...