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Talented tennis pair take home open event trophies

Outdoors
It was game, set and match for Halle Pringle and Ramon Toyos who scooped their respective open singles titles in the Mactaggart & Mickel East...

Curtain ready to rise on Guys and Dolls JR

Culture | Scotland
Budding young Scots performers are set to take centre stage this weekend. Stage Experience returns to the Theatre Royal in Glasgow for the fifth consecutive...
Performers from the Trinidad * Tobago Defence Steel Orchestra joined Highland Dancers and military pipers and drummers on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle (Photo: Ian Georgeson)

Military tattoo will be light and bright in 2019

Culture
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo will be the light fantastic when it takes place this year. The event will celebrate visible light in all its...
Gaelic song trio, Sian, featuring Eilidh Cormack, Ellen MacDonald and Ceitlin Smith, with the Breton singers (Photo: Sean Purser)

Musicians to showcase talent at Celtic festival

Culture
One of Scotland’s leading traditional arts organisations, Fèis Rois, is hosting the Scotland Pavilion in August. Being held at the acclaimed Festival Interceltique de Lorient...
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A novel approach to the Edinburgh Festival

Culture
A Scots writer is marking this year's Edinburgh Festival with a new novel. Natasha Gerson, who lives in Glasgow, was written Festival of Darkness, which...
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The Scot who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes

Culture
The popularity of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous creation, shows no sign of abating. But it’s time the Edinburgh doctor on whom...
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WHISKY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

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

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
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

Cask and Still | Whisky
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...
Ewan, Jamie, Charlie and Lachlan Maclean.

Charles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
Scotland's leading whisky writer Charles Maclean has launched a new dram - and every bottle sold will give at least one person clean water for...
Chef Tom Kitchin. Credit Marc Miller

Me and My Dram, Tom Kitchin: ‘You have to be in the right moment to enjoy whisky, that’s the magic of it’

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
Following a rocky start, celebrity chef Tom Kitchin has fostered an enduring love for whisky, finds Morag Bootland. He sits down with us for the latest...
The first legal dram from the Outer Hebridean Isle of Harris, The Hearach offers an elegant single malt, with fruit and floral notes and a long, slightly smoky, finish.

Isle of Harris: Distillery releases four new batches of the long awaited Hearach whisky

Cask and Still | Whisky
Last year the first batches of the long awaited Isle of Harris whisky sold out in less than five hours – after more than 25,000...
Rosebank Distillery.

Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
It was closed three decades ago in 1993, but now the ‘King of the Lowlands’, Rosebank Distillery is to reopen.  The historic distillery has been...
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