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Max Horne, one of the country’s top financial experts

Gift of Good Money Management for young people

A financial advisor turned author says we must spread important message that money education is vital for the next generation. With latest statistics revealing that...

Partners help children grow nature knowledge

Conservation charity the National Trust for Scotland and supermarket giant Lidl have teamed up to help children build their nature knowledge. As part of the...

‘Lost’ Peploe at Bonhams Scottish art sale

A newly discovered painting by the Scottish colourist painter Samuel Peploe is among the leading works in Bonhams Scottish Art Sale in Edinburgh next month....

Help Sonja Jump Ship with alcohol-free beer

Scotland’s first alcohol-free brewing company, Jump Ship Brewing today announced its crowdfunding bid to help accelerate production of its first beer. Sonja Mitchell, a keen...
Charlie Drummond, Scottish Opera Emerging Artist (Photo: James Glossop)

Bringing Burns and Beethoven together

Burns and Beethoven will collide in the Grand Gallery of the National Museum of Scotland on World Opera Day. This will come in a special...

The genesis of St Andrew’s Scots Memorial Church

This is a hefty book which gives an account of the beginnings of St Andrew’s Scots Memorial Church until 1967. This is the story of...

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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...