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Has lockdown changed Scottish furniture?

THE Scottish Furniture Makers Association (SFMA) and Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) have unveiled plans for a group exhibiton entitled "Adjust/Adapt". The show is due to...

Online Celtic Connections opens on Friday

CELTIC Connections' virtual festival begins on Friday, with more than 30 online performances spread across 19 days. The programme includes concerts by artists including Blazin’...

Rum portfolio prepares to launch

TWO Scottish entrepreneurs have unveiled plans to launcha portfolio of rums. Vets Now founder Richard Dixon and Genoa Black boss Claire Kinloch have picked five...

Experts hail success of moving Tayside beavers to Knapdale

SCOTTISH Beavers, a partnership between Edinburgh Zoo-owner the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and the Scottish Wildlife Trust, has completed its work to move...

Gin Bothy boss launches Hipflask Spirits label

THE entrepreneur behind Angus-based Gin Bothy has today launched a second brand. Kim Cameron, who founded her business in 2015, has unveiled a sloe bramble...

Game body hunts for under-21 chef

THE British Game Alliance (BGA) has launched a lockdown cooking competition for the under 21s. The "Game Chef Hunt" runs until 10 February, with budding...

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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...