Tranquility and comfort in architect designed home

A secluded architect-designed house built to very high specifications in 2003, offering breath-taking views sea views to the Holy Island of Iona, Inch Kenneth, Ulva and Ben More, is now for sale. Presented for sale by Savills, Torr Buan House, in Ulva Ferry on the Isle of Mull, is a place of dramatic views and…

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Whisky and interior auctions all set to be held

A very rare bottle of whisky is going to auction today (Wednesday). Bonhams auctioneers, at 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh, is holding a whisky sale on 6 June, with a home and interiors auction taking place next week, on 13 June. Available at the whisky sale is a Glenfiddich 1952, bottled in 1969 for the re-opening…

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Riding from the east coast to the west – and back

Every year it takes Iona Scobie three days to lead her ponies from the east to west coast as she crosses the remote wilderness in a remarkable Highland migration – before returning by the same route later in the year. Iona and her partner Julien Legrand together run the Scobie family estate at East Rhidorroch,…

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Bonhams all ready to host whisky and interiors auctions

Beautiful paintings and a rare bottle of whisky are going to auction next month. Bonhams auctioneers, at 22 Queen Street, Edinburgh, is holding a whisky sale on 6 June, with a home and interiors auction taking place the following Wednesday, 13 June. Available at the whisky sale is a Glenfiddich 1952, bottled in 1969 for…

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The future of Scots Trad music is in safe hands

If Aberdeenshire singer Iona Fyfe’s debut album, Away from my Window, is anything to go by then the future of Traditional Music in Scotland is well assured. One might think that being a Director of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland, studying for a Fellowship of London College of Music and continuing her…

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