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Scottish boat festival confirms 2020 event details

The 2020 Scottish Traditional Boat Festival will take place under new leadership. Following a successful two day event in June earlier this year, plans for...

Experience Commando Country in person

The chance to experience Commando Country and study the history and evolution of the Commando in Scotland is now on offer. Commando Country is an...

You could sit pitch-side at Scotland v England

Scottish rugby fans will have the chance to sit pitchside for next year's Calcutta Cup clash against England at Murrayfield. With the road to Japan...
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A modern home on the banks of a pretty loch

An immaculately presented home with spectacular loch frontage and direct beach access is now for sale. Presented by Robb Residential, Waterside Cottage, in Strachur, Argyll,...
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Wigtown Book Festival ready to pull on its wellies

This year’s Wigtown Book Festival is set to celebrate This Farming Life – the perfect theme for an event based in a region famed for...

V&A Dundee architect returns for first birthday

The internationally renowned architect of V&A Dundee, Kengo Kuma, will give a special talk to celebrate the museum’s first birthday on Sunday 15 September. Kengo...

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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...