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Joanne Dooey, vice-president of the Scottish Passenger Agents’ Association

Scots snapping up last-minute sunshine breaks

Scottish holidaymakers have snapped up last-minute short-haul sunshine deals after a sluggish start to bookings earlier in the year, according to the Scottish Passenger Agents’...
French Impressions at Aberdeen Art Gallery (Photo: VisitScotland / Kenny Lam)

Art gallery reopens after £34.6m redevelopment

This Saturday, 2 November, will see Aberdeen Art Gallery will reopen to the public after the biggest transformation in its 130-year history. It will present...

A celebration of waiters – captured in oil form

We all recognise their silhouette and dresscode - the waiter. Waiters have inspired Glasgow-based artist Cecilia Cardiff, who captures them in oils. Work by this...
River Run By taken by Gordon Clark

Share your photos of Scotland with Scottish Field

No one loves a good photograph showing the variety of life in Scotland more than Scottish Field. We also love seeing your photographs too, so...

A leap of faith with Ballet West in the Highlands

It takes someone with vision to set up a ballet school on a working farm in the Highlands, but as Gillian Barton explains, this wasn’t...
Friends for more than 30 years, the Duke of Buccleuch and renowned
landscape architect Charles Jencks enjoy the view from the Belvedere, which offers a 360-degree view of the surrounding countryside (Photo: Ian MacNicol)

The late, great Charles Jencks was romancing the stone

Architect Charles Jencks sadly passed away earlier this month, but he leaves behind an incredible legacy of work. In 2015, Scottish Field visited the stunning...

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Ardnahoe Distillery: First whisky to come from a new distillery on Islay since 2009 released

It has been six decades since Stewart Laing first learned how to make whisky on Islay. In the 1960s he travelled to the world-famous whisky...
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Kiefer Sutherland: Hollywood star brings new whisky to the UK

Hollywood star Kiefer Sutherland has unveiled his new whisky to the UK, a homage to his Canadian roots and love of the spirit. The whisky,...
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Life With Isle of Harris Distillery: ‘The Hearach is special, it has done so much for the island’

Isle of Harris distiller Thomas Macrae talks to us about his earliest memories of whisky and why The Hearach is so special to islanders. And...
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Lerwick Distillery: Shetland set for its first whisky distillery

The idea began more than a decade ago when friends Martin Watt, Caroline MacIntyre and Calum Miller came up with the idea to open the...
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...