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Douglas Heatlie won Scottish toilet attendant of the year at the Loo of the Year awards for his efforts maintaining the Avenue at Lauder

Flushed with success after winning national toilet award

A Scottish toilet attendant flushed out the competition to win a national Loo of the Year award. Douglas Heatlie from Selkirk, an employee of Scottish...
Alan Biggar presents the cheque for £25,500 to Emma Vickerstaff, regional fundraiser East of Scotland, Teenage Cancer Trust

Classic car team raises thousands for a deserving cause

A team of four friends drove a 60-year old Morgan car around Scotland for charity - with no side-screens and no roof! They drove in...
Gin

Scots are raising their glasses – and it’s not with whisky

Scots are swapping their whisky for gin, according to sales figures from a supermarket. Sales data from Aldi has revealed that gin is Scotland’s tipple...
Beech House in Swinton

Impressive former police station in a quiet conservation village

A former village police house in the Borders is for sale. Beech House, formerly the village Police House, is an attractive detached four bedroom family...
A Face Changer at the Giant Lanterns of China

Face Changer lights up the Lanterns at Edinburgh Zoo

The Giant Lanterns of China welcomes the Face Changer to their winter extravaganza event. One of China’s most dramatic performers Guofan Jin has brought this...
The Gordon & MacPhail Glenlivet 1943 decanter and box

Wartime whisky bottling impresses with its clever design

Gordon & MacPhail is celebrating winning gold in the Scotch whisky category of The Spirits Design Masters 2017, one of the most respected and high...

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...