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Life With a composer: ‘Queen Margaret of Scotland was an extraordinary woman, I wanted to celebrate her’
Scottish composer Helen MacKinnon on leaving her job to peruse her music career and taking inspiration from Queen Margaret of Scotland for her latest work. ...

The Good Books, Philip Miller: ‘I might set fire to my terrible poems in a cleansing ritual’
The journalist and civil servant Philip Miller on growing up reading comics and writing poetry. The first book I remember reading: The old Ladybird...

Life With Scottish Opera: ‘I have been working in costume design for 37 years, no two days are the same’
Scottish Opera's Head of Costume, Lorna Price, on falling in love with her Grandmother's Victorian sewing machine, using swimming to help her switch off and...

Holyrood Distillery launch Embra: a new peated dram
Holyrood Distillery has launched its 2nd single malt whisky, Embra, setting the stage for an exploration into peated whisky. Embra is the first in a series...
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Plans for a distillery on banks of Loch Lomond given the go-ahead
Plans for a new distillery on the banks of Loch Lomond have been given the go-ahead. Loch Lomond Group has been given permission by Argyll...

Producer’s Corner: RyeLaw, InchDairnie Distillery
When Fife based distiller InchDairnie launched RyeLaw, the world's first malted rye whisky, a few eyebrows were raised. Inspired by the quintessentially American Rye whisky,...

Once Upon a Time in Scotland: Hollywood legend Harrison Ford becomes the new face of Glenmorangie whisky
Hollywood legend Harrison Ford has become the new face of Glenmorangie whisky as he dons on kilt in a series of short films released to...

A dram with Gordon Motion, Highland Park: ‘Highland Park 56 started back in 1968, it’s our oldest and rarest whisky’
Since its beginnings as a 'side-hustle' of church beadle and whisky smuggler Magnus ‘Mansie’ Eunson, Highland Park has been an iconic part of the global...