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It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year… For Feasting
We fantasise about Christmas dinner all year long. The most extravagant feast imaginable is often about indulging in some good old-fashioned nostalgia. The traditions we...

Art and plastic pollution in new marine exhibition
The Scottish Maritime Museum is concluding a successful exhibitions season with an imaginative student exhibition. It combines two of the museum’s key themes of the...

A life-long love of music in a charming autobiography
Scots and music are a combination that's as old as the hills. Whether singers and groups in the charts today, heading back to the eighties...

Stepping back in time to the groovy sixties
There's something rather appealing about the sixties, especially to those who weren't there. It's an era which marked an explosion of colour, fashion, music, television,...
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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,...

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...

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...

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,...