Baking queen Mary Berry visits Scone Palace for new TV show

By Reporter | November 6, 2017

Britain’s queen of baking is to feature a historic Scots building in her new TV show. Scone Palace will offer the public a behind-the-scenes peek at stately home life when it features in a new four-part cooking series, Mary Berry’s Country House Secrets. The historic Perthshire visitor attraction is known worldwide for being the crowning…

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Former Gleneagles mixologist takes up new position at The Savoy in London

By Reporter | October 25, 2017

A former Gleneagles mixologist has taken over as the head bartender at the Beaufort Bar, located within The Savoy in London. Joe Harper, who was assistant bar manager in Perthshire at the Century Bar, succeeded previous head bartender Kyle Wilkinson earlier this month. Having honed his skills at a number of prestigious venues including St…

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Storytellers descend on Edinburgh as 12 day festival gets underway

By Reporter | October 20, 2017

Twelve days of storytelling have got underway today, with the Scottish International Storytelling Festival in Edinburgh. This event is a celebration of live storytelling, oral traditions and cultural diversity, bringing together storytellers and musicians from Scotland and around the world.  This year the festival is celebrating 70 years of Edinburgh as the Festival City through…

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VisitScotland launch world’s first Instagram travel agency – and a chance to win a holiday

By Reporter | October 19, 2017

The world’s first Instagram travel agency has been opened in London by VisitScotland. The #ScotSpirit Instagram Travel Agency lets visitors craft holidays to Scotland based entirely around other travellers’ Instagram pictures, combining social media with a high street experience. After launching on Wednesday, visitors can continue to visit until Saturday, October 21, and is free…

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Darnley’s to serve up G&Tees at global golf tournament

By Reporter | July 28, 2017

Darnley’s Gin will be hosting a series of initiatives in St Andrews this August to celebrate its sponsorship of the Ricoh Women’s British Open. Darnley’s is the ‘official gin supplier’ of this year’s event, which takes place next door to their new gin distillery in Fife at the iconic Kingsbarns Golf Links from 3-6 August.…

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Jamie McCulloch: Scottish passion with Swiss precision

By Reporter | July 21, 2017

Peter Ranscombe meets Scottish winemaker Jamie McCulloch, whose handcrafted wines from Switzerland are finding fans on Edinburgh’s food scene. IT’S always fascinating to meet Scottish winemakers. It’s possible to count the number of vineyards in our nation on one hand and so it’s interesting to explore the reasons why fellow Scots turn to making wine.…

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Winton celebrates with feast fit for a castle

By Reporter | May 24, 2017

Winton Castle, the business events and wedding venue in East Lothian, has just celebrated more than 500 years of history and changing back to being called Winton Castle. It only adopted the more modest name of Winton House in the 1960s, and ‘once a castle, always a castle’. Winton Castle was a stronghold of the…

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