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Top Scottish businessman backs bid to bring tartan weaving back to the Highlands

A leading Scottish businessman is backing a campaign to raise £500,000 to bring tartan weaving back to its home in the Scottish Highlands. Last week,...
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VisitScotland welcomes massive rise in overseas visitors

Overseas visitors are playing a massive part in the Scottish economy, according to new figures from the UK Office of National Statistics. The quarterly International...
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A new era is set to begin in classic Kirkintilloch building

A celebration of Kirkintilloch near Glasgow is to be held in the area's newly-restored Town Hall. Major works have been completed at Kirkintilloch Town Hall,...

Meet the Designer

Fancy something new? Sheila Fleet is launching her new collection in Jenners, Edinburgh this month.   If you like the glow of gold or the shine...

Fort William has all the Mòd cons

An evening of live trad music and Gaelic culturewill form part of a celebration marking the arrival of the Royal National Mòd to Lochaber. People...

Perth’s ‘Cultural Quarter’ is edging closer to completion

Plans to create a 'Cultural Quarter' in Perth are continuing apace as the second phase of works is set to come to an end. The...

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...
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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...
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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...