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Scotland’s next generation of design and fashion talent set to be showcased

Creativity and luxury will be celebrated at Scotland Re:Designed. The event, supporting design, commercialising creativity and selling Scotland, is an annual showcase of fashion, accessories...
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Acclaimed Glasgow artist stages first exhibition at Edinburgh gallery

An award-winning Scots artist is to present his first exhibition at an Edinburgh gallery. John Kingsley delivers an intensity of light, heat and emotion that...
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Christmas treats with Scottish Field at Chuffs Extravaganza

You can do your Christmas shopping in style next week and sort out a loved one with a must-have present this Christmas - a Scottish...
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Waterfront will be brought to life in a festival of light

A historic Scots waterfront will twinkle with lights once again at the endof this month. The Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine’s award-winning four day winter...

Five years in business is a reason to party in East Lothian

An East Lothian eatery is getting ready to mark five years in business. The family-owned Mercat Grill, at 10 Whitecraig Road in Whitecraig, will be...

Honours for Scotland’s top outdoor and leisure businesses

The great and the good of the Scottish outdoor and leisure industry came together to be honoured in Glasgow at the weekend. On Sunday, October...

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...
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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...