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Pitlochry Festival Theatre: Playwright Frances Poet on her adaptation of Sense and Sensibility
Award-winning Scottish playwright Frances Poet is bringing her new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved Sense and Sensibility to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. We caught up...
Edinburgh International Film Festival: Saoirse Ronan to be on the red carpet as The Outrun is premiered
Hollywood star Saoirse Ronan will open this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival with the UK premiere of a new film based on Orcadian writer Amy...
The Good Books, Denzil Meyrick: ‘They say the purpose of fiction is to remove the reader to another place’
Denzil Meyrick on his memories of being read Treasure Island by his grandmother, his favourite three books of the year so far, and being inspired...
Review: The Old Manor Hotel, Lundin Links
The sea really does have my heart. So it doesn’t take much to convince me a weekend away on the coast is a good idea....
WHISKY
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK
Prime Ministers and their relationship with a dram
Tales of late-night whisky-drinking are very much part of the mythology of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (PM: 1979-1990), but what is perhaps less well-known...
Actor Gregor Fisher discusses his favourite whisky
The Rab C Nesbitt actor tells us about Scotland's national drink. Do you remember the first time you drank whisky? Yes, my mother was never...
Don’t listen to the whisky snobs – just go and enjoy a dram
Some people are just way too obsessed about ‘natural’ whisky. Don’t get me wrong its great to taste whisky in its natural form but some...
New Make from the Clydeside Distillery is a sweet treat
With all the new distilleries opening and starting to produce what they all hope will be Single Malt Scotch Whisky in a few years time...
