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Life With The Orkney Island Games: ‘Organising a huge event on a Scottish island presents logistical challenges’

We catch up with Kirsty Talbot, director of the Orkney Island Games, to find out about her life on Orkney, how life compares to Glasgow,...
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In a nutshell, Chef Andrea Sendon Alonso: ‘The first time I tried to make Sourdough the birds didn’t even want to have a go at it’

Andrea Sendon Alonso was appointed new Restaurant Chef onboard Fingal Hotel in 2024 to lead its two AA Rosette restaurant in Edinburgh. Andrea is originally...
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Totally Tina arrives in Scotland

Award-winning Tina Turner tribute, Totally Tina, is arriving in Scotland this month. Fourteen years have passed since Totally Tina first sprang to life in Liverpool,...
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Alan Cumming reveals line up for Winter Words Festival – including Douglas Stuart and Andrew O’Hagan

Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s new Artistic Director Alan Cumming has revealed his line up for the Winter Words Festival. Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart, crime writer...
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Edinburgh Zoo: We try out the £2,000 bespoke private tour

I have fond memories of Edinburgh Zoo. Many trips were enjoyed there as a child with my grandparents and growing up it quickly became the...
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Roberta Hall-McCarron: Smoked duck and beetroot salad

For February's food feature, Rosie Morton sat down with leading Edinburgh chef and winner of the fish dish in the 2021 series of The Great...

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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

Good things come in small packages

Peter Ranscombe explores Cask 88’s new quarter cask series of whiskies finished in tiny barrels. WANDER around enough distillery warehouses and the different sizes of...

Collection expands with limited edition

Tullibardine has unveiled a new limited-edition single malt to join its award-winning Marquess Collection - The Murray Marsala Finish. The expression was distilled in 2006...

He wants to produce a 20 year old whisky in days

No distiller in the world is redefining whisky like Bryan Davis. Part showman, wacky scientist and razor-sharp businessman, the larger-than-life Californian is in the process...

A new Scotch whisky gets an American slant

A Scotch whisky has been given an American twist ahead of the Christmas market. The Glen Moray Fired Oak Cask 10-Year-Old Single Malt Whisky is...
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Whisky firm set to grow its global travel range

A Scotch whisky company is set to boost its Global Travel Retail range with the launch of a range of new products, expected in stores...
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Distillery celebrates first (and 525th) birthday

Regarded as 'the spiritual home of Scotch whisky,' Lindores Abbey Distillery celebrates its first anniversary since it opened to the public on 5 October last...

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