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Fun and games for families at Wildhood festival

A special festival for children and their families is being held this summer. Wildhood - a children’s festival - will take place on 6 and...

The business that’s stuck with traditional types

Victorian methods make for a unique selling point at a Borders printing press. While keeping apace with the latest in technological advances is vital to...

Her photography is more than a shaggy bull story

Getting up close and personal with prizewinning bulls and sparky heifers is all in a day’s work for livestock photographer Catherine MacGregor. When Scottish Field...

Celebrating the life of activist the Gaelic Guerrilla

Roy Pederson tells the story of language activist John Angus Mackay who became known as ‘the Gaelic Guerrilla’ as a result of his tireless eff...

Meet the Scots musical trio with Blondes ambition

Les Trois Blondes is the only band in Scotland tapping into the Scottish French connection and playing Bal Musette, the accordion music of Parisian cafés....

A celebration of the tenacious foxes

Each time I have seen a fox, both rural and urban, I have been struck by their oddly captivating quality. Their resourcefulness, intelligence and tenacity...

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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...
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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...