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For Your Ears Only at a night of popular music

A concert featuring disco classics, jazz music and James Bond themes is being held next week. Scottish Borders Council’s Instrumental Music Service is holding a...
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Historic castle is in need of full restoration

The abandoned Cavers Castle in Hawick is superb restoration project. Presented to the market by Rettie and Co, this is a historic country house, once...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie’s cottage is now for sale

A historic two bedroom cottage where Bonnie Prince Charlie once stayed is on the market. Known as Bonnie Prince Charlie's Cottage, this charming property is...
The bar at the Bridge Hotel

Highland hotel is available for purchase

The chance to purchase a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is now available. The Bridge Hotel, in Bonar Bridge, is an imposing property which has...
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A stunning restoration for sale at £1.5million

Tillycorthie Mansion House in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, is now for sale. Presented to the market by Savills, this period mansion house has been fully refurbished and such...
Katie Webb pictured at her home

Couple cook up a treat in an old bakery

When professional decorators Katie Webb and her partner Ian Bell bought an old bakery in Edinburgh's Canonmills, their quirky taste and polished style proved to...

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

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...
Ewan, Jamie, Charlie and Lachlan Maclean.

Charles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons

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’

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

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

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...