Posts Tagged ‘scottish’
The spirit of George this Christmas
Coinciding with the launch and multimillion pound refurbishment of InterContinental Edinburgh – The George, a new signature gin brand – Number Nineteen – has been created in collaboration with the independent Scottish distillery, The OroGin Distilling. The new Number Nineteen gin, available from the bar at the Printing Press Bar & Kitchen, in the mini bar…
Read MoreScottish butchery talent celebrated at national awards
Six butchers from across Scotland have been recognised for their skills and progression in the Scottish Craft Butcher Training Awards. The awards, sponsored by Quality Meat Scotland’s Scotch Butchers Club and the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), are in their fourth year. They play a valuable role in recognising the efforts of young people to develop…
Read MoreCelebrating the Gaelic experience
A forgotten and marginalised culture, the Gaelic experience is exposed as it was, is and all it might be. Written in both English and Gaelic, Shore to Shore, is an anthology of Gaelic raps, secular poems and aphorisms artistically and vividly bringing the Gaelic world to life. Descendants of Gaels now reside in every corner…
Read MoreBlown away by beautiful glass sculptures
Ice and fire, light and shade, Elin Isaksson’s beautiful glass sculptures have been shaped by her travels and love of nature. From the icy depths of her native Sweden, with its rugged landscape hinting at the country’s volcanic past, it is perhaps not surprising that Elin would find herself drawn to creating stunning works of…
Read MoreAngels on wheels volunteer to save lives
Biker Stewart Priest is part of a team who give up their spare time to run a free, life-saving medical transport service for the NHS. Who set the service up in the first place? The service was started by Jason Kelly. One of his family members was a patient at the old Yorkhill Hospital in…
Read MoreA historical novel that’s so intense it feels real
Rosemary Goring’s powerful sequel to her critically acclaimed debut After Flodden is set in the tumultuous borderlands of Scotland and England. Dacre’s War is a story of personal and political vengeance at the heart of the power struggle. It has been a decade since the battle at Flodden and the unrest is rife in the…
Read MoreTV cameraman Keith Partridge on braving the great outdoors
Having filmed in some of the world’s most extreme environments, award-winning adventure cameraman Keith Partridge really does enjoy Touching the Void. My favourite childhood memory is of cycling around the lanes of north Norfolk on a Saturday, on my own, with a camping stove and a pannier and – I’m not sure I should admit…
Read MoreNext stop: St Andrews – why a rail link is needed
There is a compelling argument for restoring the rail link to this popular university town. Famous around the world as the home of golf, St Andrews boasts one of Britain’s best universities and features in Scotland’s top ten tourist destinations. It also has the unfortunate distinction of being the only university town in the country…
Read MoreThe Scotsman who shot President Lincoln
From Joe Rosenthal’s striking image of the moment the American flag was raised on Iwo Jima – the most reproduced image of all time – to Nick Ut’s heart-wrenching Pulitzer-winning photograph of burning children fleeing a napalm bomb in Vietnam, photographs of war represent some of the most memorable images of modern times. Among the…
Read More10 scary things that went bump in the night
The darker nights have arrived, and when we hear something go bump in the night, we can’t help but wonder what it was. Here we round up 10 of Scotland’s scariest ghost stories. 1. The ghost in the bath Blythswood Square in Glasgow was the place to live in the 1800s, but when Captain Smythe…
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