Posts Tagged ‘st andrews’
Blue bottle to raise ÂŁ10,000 for NHS
Craft distillers Eden Mill have launched a limited-edition blue ceramic bottle of their award-winning Original Gin to show their support and raise valuable funds for the NHS, with the St Andrews-based distillers saying that it will raise ÂŁ10,000. A total of 5,000 bottles have been created, with ÂŁ2 from each ÂŁ30 bottle donated to frontline…
Read MoreDream to Dream takes best lowlands malt award
Kingsbarns Distillery’s Dream to Dram, has been announced as the Best Scotch Lowlands Single Malt at the World Whiskies Awards 2020. The success has delighted the family-run business, as it continues to make its mark in the spirits world. The light and floral expression is the first single malt to be distilled at the Fife…
Read MoreAttractive contemporary home in a charming village
An attractive contemporary house in a charming conservation village is now for sale. Kirkbrae House is an attractive modern home situated in a lovely position in the heart of the conservation village of Collessie, presented for sale by Galbraith. Completed about nine years ago and built to a thoughtful high-quality design, Kirkbrae House has been…
Read MoreHistoric Fife golf clubs looking ahead in 2020
A group of historic Fife golf clubs is looking forward to a new decade after celebrating a remarkable year in which some of its best-ever figures were recorded. Links with History, which features a selection of the finest courses in Scotland, confirmed it had seen some of its best year-on-year booking figures during 2019 with…
Read MoreIce cream cakes are ideal for the festive season
A Scots gelateria has created a deliciously indulgent and innovative range of ice cream Christmas cakes. These are on sale at Jannettas in St Andrews, alongside festive flavours like mulled wine sorbet, mince pie and gingerbread. Each cake is crafted by hand by a master ice cream maker with options to delight all the family…
Read MoreEden Mill opens a trio of pop up shops
Eden Mill have today announced the opening of three new pop-up shop experiences in the run-up to Christmas. The pop-up store can be found in Edinburgh’s The Gyle Shopping Centre, while another two pop-ups are taking up residence in Aberdeen and Livingston. Eden Mill, the award-winning single-site brewery and distillery based in St Andrews, have…
Read MoreIt’s World Toilet Day – is this the finest loo in Scotland?
Scotland has many incredible beauty spots and tourist attractions, but there can be few stranger than the Victorian toilets on the Isle of Bute. Today is World Toilet Day – an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis – and to mark it, we…
Read MoreCelebrate St Andrew’s Day with special ice creams
A traditional Scots-Italian gelateria is to celebrate St Andrew’s Day with special edition ice cream flavours. Jannettas, the four-generational venue located in St Andrews- has announced its new season flavours to celebrate the arrival of autumn and beyond Jannettas introduced seasonal editions with flavours available throughout the week of St Andrew’s Day, with haggis, Drambuie,…
Read More‘Lost’ Peploe will go to auction next week
A newly discovered painting by the Scottish colourist painter Samuel Peploe will go to auction next week. Royan Harbour, which is estimated at ÂŁ70,000-100,000, was first owned by Mme Marie Marguerite Soulie, who was married to the English novelist and playwright Arnold Bennett from 1917-1921. Its whereabouts have been unknown to scholars until now. Other…
Read MoreTeenagers who are too cool for school
A new four-part TV series charts the journey of a group of young Scots aged between 13 and 15 as they embark on the school trip of a lifetime – the freezing Arctic wilderness of Greenland. In the first episode of Arctic Academy, we follow 20 youngsters from Bathgate Academy in West Lothian as they…
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