Posts Tagged ‘glasgow’
Students will be saying cheers for the beers
Scottish student union bars will be toasting a new deal with a brewery chain. Brewer Molson Coors is this week celebrating a milestone for its Scottish business, with the announcement of a new four year solus beer and cider supply deal with the student union purchasing consortium, Northern Services. In an unprecedented decision by the…
Read MoreA chain(saw) reaction in the Highlands
Visitors to a Highland village will find a chain reaction is in store next weekend. This year’s Carve Carrbridge, which takes place next Saturday, 1 September, is the competition sculptors from around the world are keen to be a part of as demonstrated by the truly international line-up of chainsaw carvers. Now in its 16th…
Read MoreNew Lanark surprises and delights in equal measure
For years I’ve harboured a longing to go to New Lanark. It’s a foible that has completely baffled my nearest and dearest, whose reaction the first time I suggested a day at enlightened mill owner Robert Owen’s settlement was a look of blank incomprehension, followed – once she had realised I wasn’t joking – by…
Read MoreFinal three revealed in hunt for top teen novel
Three Scottish writers are in the running for the 2019 Scottish Teenage Book Prize after the competition’s shortlist was announced earlier today. Voting for the winner has now opened for young readers across the country. The shortlisted authors for the prize have been revealed by Scottish Book Trust, the national charity changing lives through reading…
Read MoreBig names keep coming to the Blas Festival
Next month Scotland will host some of folk music’s biggest names during Blas Festival. Amongst the acts to perform across Ross-shire, and further afield, will be Julie Fowlis, BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner Mischa Macpherson and Breabach pipers Calum MacCrimmon and James Duncan Mackenzie with a new project in tribute to the late…
Read MoreFloral tributes mark centenary of the Armistace
Gardens are blooming across Scotland to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War centenary. Gardeners at National Trust for Scotland properties across the north east of Scotland have cultivated striking memorial displays of Armistice flowers to remember those who lost their lives. The Armistice installations have their own dedicated area in…
Read MorePrivate residential estate in the West Highlands
A private residential estate in the heart of the stunningly beautiful West Highlands is now for sale, either as a whole, or in four lots. Knight Frank present to the market the Glen Lonan Estate, featuring an eight bedroom country house in Taynuilt, Argyll and Bute. Lonan House is an impressive B-Listed mansion house, constructed…
Read MoreScotland’s second veterinary nursing course to begin
Scotland is known for its love of animals, and Scotland’s Rural College has just become one of only two higher education institutions in Scotland to offer a degree in Veterinary Nursing. Welcoming its first intake next month, the course will allow students to graduate as a Registered Veterinary Nurse with the Royal College of Veterinary…
Read MoreToys standing the test of time with Scottish children
A Glasgow shopping centre has revealed that today’s toddlers would rather play with the toys their parents loved as children – with LEGO, action figures and dolls, such as My Little Pony, proving to stand the test of time. The findings are released following a poll of parents in Scotland and a toy testing workshop,…
Read MoreRum and rhythm come to Glasgow for an exclusive party
Glasgow is set to host Scotland’s first ever rum and rhythm Bacardi party. The famous rum has hosted some of the world’s most legendary parties for the past 150 years, and next Friday, 31 August, the 158 Club Lounge, located within the award-winning Hutchesons City Grill in Merchant City, is set to host an exclusive…
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