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Kim’s shaping up for strongwoman event

Record-breaking Scottish strongwoman Kim Best has borrowed one of her employer’s six-tonne tractors while training for her next event. The 26-year-old, a lab scientist for...

Recipient of Next Chapter Award 2020 revealed

A poet from Orkney has been announced as the recipient of Scottish Book Trust’s Next Chapter Award 2020. Olive M Ritch now lives and works...

Prestigious honour for Aberdeen’s new event complex

The Event Complex Aberdeen has been given a prestigious accolade at a national awards event which recognises excellence in commercial and public property. The complex,...

Ferry Tales coming to three major Scots ferry routes

There's bound to be drama on the seas of Scotland, onboard a number of Scottish ferries. Ferry Tales, presented by the National Theatre of Scotland,...

A look at one of nature’s deadliest journeys

With a foreword by HRH Prince Charles, Norman Matheson examines the remarkable life-cycle of the Atlantic Salmon as it undertakes one of the most underappreciated but deadly journeys in...

Celebrate Scotland’s female artists at new exhibition

A new exhibition that showcases a range of extraordinary work by women artists working in Scotland throughout the 20th century has opened at Clydebank Museum...

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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...
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...