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Chip shop lands sustainability prize

THE Bay Fish & Chips in Stonehaven has netted an award for its sustainability. The chippy scooped the "Sustainable Business Award" at "The Cateys", an...
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Dame Judi Dench supports Scottish forest

ACTRESS Dame Judi Dench and her family have dedicated a grove at the Woodland Trust’s Ledmore & Migdale Wood in Sutherland “for the people we...
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REVIEW: Damiani grazing boxes

Peter Ranscombe takes delivery of some tasty Italian treats. ONE of the few bright spots amid the coronavirus restrictions has been the explosion in the...

Scots chef ready for Christmas at your house

SCOTLAND'S restaurants are getting ready to serve Christmas dinner at your house this year. Chefs have come up with a selection of festive options, ranging...
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Butchers are a cut above the rest

SCOTTISH butchers are celebrating after scooping prizes at the industry's annual training awards. Ariane Bennett, 19, who works for her family's Arbroath butchers D H...
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Sheila Fleet Jewellery team raises £5,000 for charity

THE team at Sheila Fleet Jewellery on Orkney has raised more than £5,000 for Pancreatic Cancer Action Scotland (PCAS) by "travelling" nearly 1,300 miles to...

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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...
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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...