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Pensioners are enjoingy the companionship in trishaws

Perth tenants are set for wheelie good time

Outdoors
An 81-year-old Perthshire pensioner has teamed up with his local school and council to help older people get back on their bikes. Norman Ridley, a...
The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow

Tickets now available for first shows at new home

Culture
Tickets are now on sale for the first two productions to be staged during the Citizens Theatre’s first season away from home. While temporarily presenting...
Inside the State Cinema, before the work begins (Photo: Chris Scott)

Breathing new life into abandoned old buildings

Culture
Disused venues in Edinburgh are being given an incredible new lease of life for the Hidden Door festival. Hidden Door is a not-for-profit volunteer run...
A curlew

Opinion: Reaction to bird control is stark, raven mad

Outdoors
Scottish Countryside Alliance director Jamie Stewart shares his thoughts on raven control. In recent weeks, the Scottish Countryside Alliance and other land-based organisations welcomed the...

Talented pair unite for a beautiful mini album

Culture | Music
After spending the past decade playing in various collaborations and each other’s bands, Heidi Talbot and John McCusker have finally found time to record a...

Book review: Road Without Signposts by Barbara Morris

Books | Culture | Scotland
What’s the Story? Road without Signposts is a sequel to One Missed Step. The book tells the story of the continued drama within the Wilder...
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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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