Sam Heughan’s delight at Audie Award nomination

Actor star Sam Heughan has told Scottish Field of his delight at being nominated for a top audio industry award. The Audio Publishers Association’s finalists for the 2022 Audie Awards programme was recently revealed, celebrating the best titles in audio publishing and spoken-word entertainment, honouring a varied group of actors, musicians and politicians, ahead of…

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A filling and healthy mix of foods in your fridge

Recipes that are healthy and filling are just what we need. Our current batch of recipes have been created by Olia Hercules for Maldon Salt, as part of the Feel Good Food series running on the Maldon Salt socials. Today, we present a recipe for Grated Carrot with Herbs and Poppy Seeds. Olia said: ‘Two…

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Graphic novel and comic work at new exhibition

An exhibition by award-winning duo Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers is taking place in Falkirk. The Graphic Novel World of Metaphrog runs until April 17 at the Park Gallery, Callendar House, Falkirk. Metaphrog are Franco-Scottish duo Sandra Marrs and John Chalmers, winners of The Sunday Herald Scottish Culture Awards 2016 Best Visual Artist. The exhibition…

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Isle of Raasay to open new distillery in Campbeltown

The owners of the Isle of Raasay Distillery has announced the opening of the first farm to bottle distillery in Campbeltown in more than 180 years. To add to their ambition of becoming Scotland’s leading artisanal distiller, R&B Distillers Limited have announced a bold new plan to add a second single malt whisky brand to…

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Music at Paxton is ready to return this summer

Music at Paxton is returning to the summer festival season this July. Once again, it will bring glorious international chamber music to Paxton House, on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. The Maxwell Quartet will return as Ensemble in Residence. There will be song recitals, an outstanding range of international musicians,…

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Stories of Scotland wanted for the Book Festival

The Edinburgh International Book Festival has announced a new project gathering and creating stories from and for people across the country in response to Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022. The year will spotlight, celebrate and promote the wealth of stories inspired by, written, or created in Scotland. Scotland’s Stories Now is a mass participatory project…

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Dál Riata is a new distillery planned for Campbeltown

Plans to create a new whisky distillery in Campbeltown have been revealed this week. Previously known as the capital of the whisky world, in the mid 1800s Campbeltown boasted over 25 distilleries, until a dramatic decline during the 1920s – by 1929 the town had only two operating distilleries. The Dál Riata Distillery is a…

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Reopening of The People’s Palace confirmed

The reopening date for the People’s Palace museum in Glasgow has been revealed. Set in historic Glasgow Green, the iconic People’s Palace, home to collections documenting Glasgow’s social history from 1750 to the present day, will reopen at 10am on Wednesday, February 23. The museum will be open full-time, seven days a week, for the…

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Take the plunge at the Angus Tour’s best dooking spots

Angus locals are inviting like minded cold-water swimmers and dookers to enjoy some of the most beautiful salt and freshwater spots on The Angus Tour. The Angus Tour Dookers Facebook group has been created as a tool to plan meets, share tips and build a community for those keen to dook in Angus but unsure…

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A thrilling mystery in a fictional Scots village

The Purified is the second of C F Peterson’s high-octane thrillers set in the fictional village of Duncul. Eamon Ansgar (the hero of the first novel, ‘Errant Blood’) has found happiness in marriage, but community life is shaken by a brutal murder and he finds himself helping the local police force to investigate (an entirely…

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