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Fireworks at the end of the 2017 Kirkintilloch Canal Festival

Scottish canal festival will return this summer

Culture
An annual Scottish canal festival is returning for 2018. Visitors are being urged to set course for the Kirkintilloch Canal Festival, which is being held...
Planning approval has been granted for the MacTaggart and Mickel site in East Challow

Scottish housebuilders add second English site

Homes & Gardens
A leading Scottish housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel Homes has secured planning permission for its second English housing development. Mactaggart & Mickel Homes England, part of...
Hard at work on a section of the Great Tapestry of Scotland

Learn the secrets of Scotland’s great tapestry

Culture
Visitors to New Lanark will find themselves stitched up in the coming weeks - in a good way! The 18th century cotton-spinning mill village and...
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Photo: Pete Dibdin)

Folk tale returns for a new theatre tour

Culture
A celebrated folk theatre fable from the National Theatre of Scotland is preparing for new dates at home and in the USA. The Strange Undoing...

A day of Gaelic lined up for Perthshire

Culture
A day of Gaelic for the whole family is being held in Perthshire next month. The Strathearn Community Campus is hosting Latha Gàidhlig on Saturday,...

Bid to restore Scottish peatland to good health

Outdoors
The National Trust for Scotland has given its support to the first UK Peatland Strategy. As Scotland’s largest conservation organisation and one of its biggest...
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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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