Posts Tagged ‘Highlands’
Views over Loch Ness from a luxurious home
A stunning home with amazing views over Loch Ness has been brought to the market. Presented by Strutt and Park, Fern View House is a stunning, luxurious home with a fantastic contemporary feel, commanding an elevated position on a wooded hillside with magnificent views over the loch. Its interior takes inspiration from its natural surroundings…
Read MoreSinger in A Happy Place with new EP after cancer battle
Exactly one year on from her breast cancer diagnosis, highly-lauded traditional performer Rachel Walker is set to release a heartfelt new EP. She has collaborated with singer and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Jones in aid of the cancer support charity Maggie’s. Due for release on Friday, 25 February, A Happy Place is a collection of uplifting songs…
Read MoreDistillery’s £150,000 boost to help Highland Tourism
Highland Tourism has confirmed a major three-year investment of £150,000 from the award-winning Tomatin Distillery. The funding will ensure progress for the organisation’s roadmap for sustainable tourism in the Highlands. The six-figure sum represents new money that Highland Tourism has been able to attract through its excellent relations with the private sector and its vision…
Read MoreNew crime thriller gets ready for release
A Scots crimewriter’s latest novel is set to be released next month. The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster, who lives in the Scottish Highlands, is publishing in hardback on March 31 with HQ Digital. This is the second stunning thriller in the incredible DS Max Craigie series – the first, Dead Man’s Grave, was longlisted…
Read MoreLandowner has no wish to ‘snatch freedom’ from walkers
A Scottish landowner has said he is ‘mystified’ about what he believes is a politically motivated campaign of misinformation concerning his attitude to ramblers. Donald Houston has managed a 27,000-acre estate for 25 years in the West Highlands, on behalf of his own company and others, including a registered local charity. Although it is predominantly…
Read MoreCelebrating the gems of Scotland’s great outdoors
Author Mike Cawthorne first walked on Ben Nevis at aged seven. This is when he began to gain his extensive knowledge and experience of Britain’s highest points. In this book he shares his vast and fascinating experiences of walking and canoeing in one of the few remaining wild places in the Highlands as well as…
Read MoreA fast-paced historical Highland thriller
The creation of Great Britain is certainly a topical subject. Using her knowledge of the English Tudor and Stuart periods, S J Garland creates this fast-paced historical thriller based at the time of the signing of the Act of Union. Set in the Highlands, a man is sent to become an excise collector but things…
Read More£500,000 funding for Glencoe tourist attraction
A £2m project to transform a major tourist attraction in Lochaber has secured up to £500,000 of funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Funds will go towards the construction of a new base station at Glencoe ski centre which will see the demolition of the current fire damaged building. The new facilities are expected to…
Read MoreThe communities taking ownership of their land
In recent years, communities in the Scottish Highlands and Islands have taken ownership of more than half a million acres – an area equivalent to that of an English county like Nottinghamshire or West Yorkshire. In places long characterised by contracting economies and shrinking populations, this remarkable development has resulted in new homes, new businesses,…
Read MoreA different way to get a whisky – with a non-fungible token
The Dalmore Highland Single Malt is offering a new dram in a unique partnership. Dalmore has partnered with BlockBar.com, the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace for luxury wine and spirits, to offer a limited edition liquor NFT with a set of The Dalmore Decades No.4 Collection. This will be the only set within the exceptional Dalmore…
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