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New film will look at the Scottish Versailles

Culture | Gardens
A group of students are working on a documentary film telling the forgotten story of a Scottish castle. Loudoun is a documentary film, currently in...
The Red Note group (Photo: Wattie Cheung)

Plug Festival will showcase musical talent

Culture | Music
The curtain is to rise on one of the country’s foremost celebrations of new music as more than 65 premieres by around 50 composers are...
The Dovecot Studios team show off their outstanding skills

Crafts from the Scottish capital to the British

Arts & Antiques | Culture
An Edinburgh studio is taking part in this year's London Craft Week. The Clothworkers’ Company of London, are generously supporting a series of ticketed events...

Project takes opera to a brand new audience

Culture | Education | Music
Scottish Opera is taking opera to a whole new generation next month. The Opera Factory is a brand new interactive musical experience for primary three...
Gabriela Peniche putting chicks back in a white tailed sea eagle’s nest

Eagles taken to vet studies centre by namesakes

Outdoors
A Scottish courier firm is playing a crucial role in understanding the environmental factors threatening the country’s most famous birds of prey. Working alongside researchers...
Beagles and Ramsay with one of their sculptures

100 pieces of Scottish art need new homes

Arts & Antiques | Culture
A new scheme offering people the chance to adopt a contemporary Scottish sculpture has been launched. More than 50 Scottish artists have joined an initiative...
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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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