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Natalie Anderson and Elaine C Smith shape up in Fat Friends - The Musical

Belly laughs aplenty with Fat Friends musical

‘Bones aren’t sexy! Flesh is fabulous!’ declares Kelly, the lead characters in Fat Friends – The Musical, as the spin-off from the early noughties television...
Fireworks at the end of the 2017 Kirkintilloch Canal Festival

Scottish canal festival will return this summer

An annual Scottish canal festival is returning for 2018. Visitors are being urged to set course for the Kirkintilloch Canal Festival, which is being held...
Planning approval has been granted for the MacTaggart and Mickel site in East Challow

Scottish housebuilders add second English site

A leading Scottish housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel Homes has secured planning permission for its second English housing development. Mactaggart & Mickel Homes England, part of...
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Learn the secrets of Scotland’s great tapestry

Visitors to New Lanark will find themselves stitched up in the coming weeks - in a good way! The 18th century cotton-spinning mill village and...
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Folk tale returns for a new theatre tour

A celebrated folk theatre fable from the National Theatre of Scotland is preparing for new dates at home and in the USA. The Strange Undoing...

A day of Gaelic lined up for Perthshire

A day of Gaelic for the whole family is being held in Perthshire next month. The Strathearn Community Campus is hosting Latha Gàidhlig on Saturday,...

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Sharks and 30ft waves: The deadly risks facing three Scots on a 14,000km Pacific row

For most people, shark-infested waters, mammoth waves, and fish that can pierce a boat’s hull would be the stuff of nightmares.  But for Jamie, Ewan,...
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Plans unveiled for new distillery to resurrect Ferintosh whisky on Black Isle

Plans for a new distillery on the Black Isle which will resurrect long lost Scottish whisky Ferintosh have been unveiled.  Ferintosh was once the largest...
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Plans for a distillery on banks of Loch Lomond given the go-ahead

Plans for a new distillery on the banks of Loch Lomond have been given the go-ahead. Loch Lomond Group has been given permission by Argyll...
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Producer’s Corner: RyeLaw, InchDairnie Distillery

When Fife based distiller InchDairnie launched RyeLaw, the world's first malted rye whisky, a few eyebrows were raised.  Inspired by the quintessentially American Rye whisky,...
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Once Upon a Time in Scotland: Hollywood legend Harrison Ford becomes the new face of Glenmorangie whisky

Hollywood legend Harrison Ford has become the new face of Glenmorangie whisky as he dons on kilt in a series of short films released to...
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A dram with Gordon Motion, Highland Park: ‘Highland Park 56 started back in 1968, it’s our oldest and rarest whisky’

Since its beginnings as a 'side-hustle' of church beadle and whisky smuggler Magnus ‘Mansie’ Eunson, Highland Park has been an iconic part of the global...

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