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Could soil be used to capture carbon dioxide?
FARMERS are carrying out experiments to find out if they can use their soils to trap harmful carbon dioxide from the air. The project, known...
Socially-distanced grouse shooting set to begin
ESTATES have been preparing to hold socially-distanced shoots ahead of the grouse season beginning on Wednesday. Protocols have been developed and approved by the Scottish...
Tattie supplier Branston in virtual round the world fundraiser
MEMBERS of staff from Perthshire potato packer Branston began a virtual round the world trip over the weekend to raise money for the Rachel House...
Folk musician Karen Tweed publishes sketchbook
PIANO accordionist Karen Tweed has published her first book of sketches. Tweed trained as a graphic artist in the early 1980s before focusing on music...
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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...
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,...
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...
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...