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The Creative Craft Show comes to Glasgow next week

Creatives get themselves ready for Scotland’s big crafts event

Scotland's clever crafters and witty knitters are getting ready for their biggest event of the year. The Creative Craft Show and The Scottish Quilting Show,...
The Fairy Pools Project on Skye

Fairy Pools get a massive cash boost on the Isle of Skye

Two top tourist sites on the Isle of Skye are set for improvements this year. The Skye Local Area Partnership has agree to commit £200K...
Young brass band musicians

Young musicians wanted for Scottish youth brass band competition

Young brass band players from all over the country are to take part in the National Mining Museum Scotland's first Annual Youth Brass Band competition....
Dobbie's luxury afternoon tea

Garden centres launch delightful new afternoon tea menu

Dobbies Garden Centres has launched a new and improved afternoon tea menu, just in time for Mother’s Day. Spring is in the air and the...
Call the Midwife star Laura Main will appear as Princess Fiona in Aberdeen

Call The Midwife star returns with a jolly green giant

Call the Midwife star Laura Main is enjoying homecoming when she takes to the stage with a big green ogre. The Aberdeen actress will return...
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Excitement continues to grow for New York’s 2018 Tartan Day Parade

The excitement is mounting for the 20th anniversary of Tartan Day and the New York Tartan Day Parade next month. To be held on 7...

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...