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Reading the road saw actor Tam follow the baton

Culture
As an actor, Tam Dean Burn's work has taken him all over the country. Having appeared on screen, notably several roles in Taggart and as...
George Lennox Watson at the age of 21 (Photo: Martin Black Collection)

Remembering the Mackintosh of yacht design

Culture | Scotland
Think of the heyday of the Clyde and what names are conjured? John Brown, Denny, Lithgow, Fairfield, Yarrow and Napier were amongst the shipbuilding titans...

Winner of north east short story competition revealed

Culture | Scotland
The Toulmin Prize is open to amateur writers over the age of 16. The stories entered should have a north east focus, and may be...

Children will learn to be safer swimmers

Outdoors
Tens of thousands of young swimmers are to get a lesson covering self-rescue and life-saving skills in the largest coordinated water safety lesson ever seen...
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Head back to the 80’s with Club Tropicana the musical

Culture
Despite being born in 1990, the music of the 80's has always spoken to me.  The poppy dance numbers that force you to get up...

Toulmin Prize fourth commended story revealed

Culture | Scotland
The Toulmin Prize is open to amateur writers over the age of 16. The stories entered should have a north east focus, and may be...
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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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