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Inside the Royal Scots

A 55-minute film about The Royal Scots, entitled “Scottish Soldiers : Regimental Memories: 1945- 2006” has just been released by the regimental museum. With interviews...
Cecilia Grigor.

Digital directory for the North Highlands

A new online platform to help people come together during the coronavirus pandemic has already attracted 10,000 community-spirited North Highlanders. Launched by Inverness-based events and...
Keep your wine rack away from hot areas and store bottles on their side.

How to care for your wine

The bars and restaurants might be closed, but the nation’s thirst still needs to be slaked. Supermarket drink shelves are running dry; and off-licences and...

Bid away!

Although the GWCT Game Fair at Scone and annual dinner at Prestonfield House have been cancelled, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s annual Scottish auction...
Jar of heather honey.

Sweet as honey

A Scottish honey is set to take on its global rivals after being revealed as a world-leading superfood in a recent scientific study. The Scottish...
Crerar Hotels Deeside Inn Lounge.

Scottish Hospitality for Heroes

Crerar Hotels are to gift 2,000 free ‘nights away’ for NHS staff, care workers and their families in an initiative that will give the company...

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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,...
Thomas Macrae.

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...