Salon group delighted to take top Scottish title

Luxury Edinburgh salon group Zen Lifestyle scoop Scottish Salon of the Year 2018 at the Professional Beauty Regional Awards Edinburgh-based salon group Zen Lifestyle is celebrating having won Scottish Boutique Salon of the Year 2018. It received the title at the prestigious Professional Beauty Regional Awards, the Oscars of the beauty industry. This accolade follows…

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Ex-Glenalmond pupil is face of charity campaign

Ryan Bromilow, a former pupil at Glenalmond College in Perthshire, has been chosen to front a charity’s video appeal. The campaign looks to encourage young people to take advantage of the opportunities boarding school can bring. The film has been made by Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation, the UK’s largest boarding school bursary charity which…

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Whisky, Fire & Song at a celebration event

Whisky, Fire & Song is a fun-filled weekend of live music, community events and whisky drinking taking place early next month. Now in its fourth year, Whisky, Fire & Song will kick off on Friday 2 November with a night of music and song at Raasay Distillery; the evening of Raasay Tunes with feature talented…

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Ladies’ shooting club marks its fourth birthday

Scotland’s premier ladies shooting club Glad Rags and Cartridge Bags is celebrating its fourth birthday. Since its first event hundreds of ladies of all experiences have shot with them at 18 magnificent venues. The club was founded by Mhairi Morriss – and it was all thanks to a bit of serendipity. Mhairi smiled: ‘I can’t…

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Young farmers’ woolly thinking art is a real winner

Bale art depicting a colourful scene of shepherds and their sheep has been declared the best in Scotland after winning a national competition for young farmers. People across Scotland have been enjoying a wide range of works of art creating using straw bales around the country with a total of 53 young farmers clubs taking…

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Your vote could help stop red squirrel extinction

An innovative Highlands project bidding to stop Scotland’s red squirrels from becoming extinct will be stepped up if conservation charity Trees for Life wins an online vote for a major European funding award. With the UK’s red squirrels at risk, the charity’s pioneering Reds Return project has been shortlisted to receive more than ÂŁ25,000 in…

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Finalists chosen in bale artwork competition

Six straw bale works of art, created by Scottish young farmers, have been deemed ‘outstanding in their field’ as the finalists in an annual bale art competition. The national competition, run by the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC) and supported by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), welcomed 54 entrants from across the country, with…

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House about that for a spook-tacular prize?

Scottish family housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel Homes are offering a fang-tastic prize for house hunters this month. They have a ÂŁ100 John Lewis voucher up for grabs for the best Halloween costume. Everyone who visits a Mactaggart & Mickel development during October – dressed in a suitably spooky Halloween costume – will have their photograph…

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Young farmers to get creative for a good cause

What do giant cows, Bill and Ben The Flowerpot Men, teddy bears and clowns have in common? They’re all previous entrants of the annual Young Farmers’ bale art competition, which returns to fields across Scotland over the next week. This year, members of the Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC) will go head to…

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Scots chef takes top prize at Young British Foodies

A Scot has won the coveted Young British Foodies Chef of 2018. The honour was bestowed upon Roberta Hall-McCarron, head chef at The Little Chartroom in Edinburgh, at an awards ceremony last night. The restaurant is a neighbourhood-style bistro which opened its doors earlier this summer with Roberta in the kitchen and Shaun, her husband,…

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