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Planting trees for the Queen’s Green Canopy event
The National Trust for Scotland was delighted to start its participation in The Queen’s Green Canopy with a planting in the grounds of Haddo House, in Aberdeenshire. The QGC is a unique tree planting initiative created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 which invites everyone from across the United Kingdom to Plant a…
Read MoreGold Green Tourism Award for bothies business
Cairngorm Bothies, near Aboyne in Royal Deeside, has secured a Gold Green Tourism Award which recognises the business’ commitment to becoming more sustainable. Acknowledged worldwide as an indicator of best practice in sustainability, the awards provides a practical way for a tourism business to progress on a ‘œgreen journey’. They also act as a hallmark…
Read MoreEdinburgh Food Festival is back – bigger than before
Edinburgh’s largest free-to-enter food festival will be back with another delicious helping this summer. Taking place from Friday 22-Sunday 31 July, this year the Edinburgh Food Festival is back and more ambitious than ever; showcasing more brewers, more bakers, more producers and makers than ever before. Launched in summer 2015 in tandem with Scotland’s Year…
Read MoreAddressing the worries people have about rewilding
Rewilding has recently generated more media interest than ever before, with the heightened focus on nature recovery following COP26. And there is widespread recognition that Scotland has become one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. According to a recent poll carried out by YouGov, 77% of Scots support rewilding – the large-scale recovery…
Read MoreA stunning five bedroom detached family home
A beautiful detached house offering impressive accommodation has been brought to the market. Presented by Paton & Co, 8 Grange Road is a stunning five bedroom detached family home situated within easy walking distance of Berwick Upon Tweed’s main line railway station. The property offers practical and manageable family accommodation over two principal floors and…
Read MoreBorders Art Fair looks to a flourishing future
The return of Borders Art Fair last weekend has been hailed as a tremendous success, attracting thousands of visitors to browse, buy and chat to artists and makers. Preliminary estimates suggest that more than 3000 visitors invested around £130,000 in art and craft from the Borders and beyond. More than 70 individual artists and makers,…
Read MoreGlen Scotia’s 46-year-old is its rarest liquid yet
Campbeltown-based distillery, Glen Scotia, has unveiled its oldest and rarest limited-edition liquid to date, a 46-year-old single malt Scotch whisky with only 150 individually numbered bottles available worldwide. Refined through years of patience, the remarkably aged expression has been slowly maturing for over four decades, under the careful custodianship of various distillery teams from the…
Read MoreNational Museum of Flight’s airfield heritage
The National Museum of Flight in East Lothian will commence seven-day opening on Friday, 1 April, for a new season. It will feature a number of special events exploring the East Fortune attraction’s history as a wartime RAF base. Supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, Make Do and Mend runs from Tuesday 19-Friday 22…
Read MoreScots outdoor tourist attractions fared better than the rest
Outdoor visitor attractions fared much better than museums and indoor sites last year, as COVID-19 continued to devastate Scotland’s visitor attractions sector. New figures, published today by ASVA, the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions, in conjunction with Glasgow Caledonian University’s Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Development, reveal overall visitor numbers were more than 47%…
Read MoreBladnoch ready to release new classic Alinta
The Bladnoch Distillery have announced the latest addition to their ‘Classic Collection’ of Lowland Single Malt Scotch Whiskies: Alinta. Alinta will be the first peated whisky to be added to their range since the distillery – first opened 204 years ago – was taken over by David Prior in 2015. ‘Alinta’, an indigenous Australian word…
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