Pictured with Ellie Marshall (aged eight, from Wigtown Primary School with Dumfries and Galloway major events champion Adam Wilson (Photo: Colin Hattersley)
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Wigtown Book Festival 2019 another big success

It’s been another superb year for the Wigtown Book Festival. Preliminary figures suggest that audience numbers matched or even bettered the 29,000 achieved for the...

Celebrating culture and embracing heritage

A new documentary is to be shown today, celebrating Scotland's diversity. Film-maker Stewart Kyasimire made this heart-felt documentary for his eight-year-old daughter Yasmin as a...

Saving the wildcats – Scotland’s Highland tiger

For someone who initially had no particular interest in wildcats, I finished this book feeling massively concerned for their welfare and vulnerability.  Marianne Taylor delves...

Win a whisky lover’s trip to the Isle of Islay

The National Whisky Festival of Scotland has announced its return to Glasgow next year as part of Celtic Connections 2020. And to celebrate, the event...
Readers Whisky Challenge 2013

Scottish Field readers choose favourite drams

Scottish Field has announced the winners of our Readers’ Whisky Challenge 2019. A panel of Scottish Field readers sampled 54 whiskies on the judging day...
Iain Gulland, chief executive of Zero Waste Scotland

Addressing single-use items and throwaway culture

Zero Waste Scotland is warning that the current focus on plastics is distracting from the real issue of ending disposable throwaway culture and urges Scots...


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