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Still time to nominate good food and delicious drink

There's just one month left to enter Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards 2020. Food and drink producers hoping to be recognised at Scotland’s most...

You’ve still got time to see the clock exhibition

There's just over a week left to time your visit to an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland. The Luxury of Time: Clocks from...
Jewellery maker Jenna McDonald, from Crieff, Perthshire - one of the artists now based at The Creative Exchange, and her whippet dog Millie, who keeps her company in her workshop studio (Photo: Colin Hattersley)

New £4.5 million Perth Studios takes Wasps to 20 in 2020

Scotland’s arts community is to receive a significant boost in 2020 as Wasps opens its 20th building – with a second multi-million pound project underway...

Dark secrets in Highland Perthshire

Highland Perthshire’s rolling hills may now be the picture of tranquillity. But as Mark Bridgeman’s book reveals, its picturesque villages conceal a dark past of...

Opposition to A9 upgrade over fear of battlefield loss

Campaigners against plans to upgrade the A9 at the site of the Battle of Killiecrankie have raised their concerns. The Scottish Government is currently holding...
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Garden design firm recognised in national awards

A Scots garden design and landscaping company, Papillon, has been shortlisted for four awards in this year’s Association of Professional Landscapers’ Awards. Three projects in...

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The Glen Grant releases its rarest ever whisky – a 65 Year Old with a £39,000 price tag

When James ‘The Major’ Grant inherited Speyside distillery the Glen Grant in 1872, he brought his affinity of plants, flowers and the natural world with...
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Formula One Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc becomes new face of Scotch whisky Chivas Regal

F1 Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has become the new face of Scotch whisky brand Chivas Regal. The partnership comes following news of the spirit company...
Speyside Tour with SMWS 2 & 3rd Nov 2017.
Glen Moray Distillery, Elgin
Euan Campbell smells the whisky in the barrels

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A Dram With Euan Campbell, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society: ‘We’re pushing boundaries but respecting the heritage of this centuries old drink.’

Whisky drinkers all over the world have likely heard of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Since the whisky club was first formed in 1983, it...
Jamie Ewan and Lachlan Maclean.

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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