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Burns Night: haggis, neeps… and tonic

AN ABERDEENSHIRE entrepreneur has created a tonic water - infused with neeps. Claire Rennie, who founded her Walter Gregor’s tonic water brand in 2015, created...

Glasgow café joins Netflix star for video

THE owner of a café in Glasgow is starring in a video series on Facebook alongside one of the presenters of Netflix's Queer Eye programme....

All aboard Scotland’s first hydrogen train

SCOTLAND'S first hydrogen-powered train has been given the green signal. An old passenger train will be fitted with a hydrogen fuel cell at the Bo’ness...

Parents splurged £1,608.97 on children’s presents

THE five most popular presents for Christmas 2020 cost a grand total of £1,608.97, according to figures from technology website Music Magpie. Last month's total...

Mixed picture for songbird breeding

DATA from bird ringers suggests that not all birds benefited from last spring's mild weather and lack of human disturbance during the lockdown. Figures from...

New Year’s Day art ideas

NEW Year's Day is the ideal time to start thinking about the exciting art exhibitions taking place online or perhaps in galleries in the weeks...

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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...