We’ll be back in our gardens before we know it

The promise of lighter, longer days is on the horizon – and that means our gardens will come back to life. As we welcome the new year and look forward to the blossoming season ahead, head of garden at Dobbies, Louise Golden, shares her expert trend insights and planting advice for 2019. After months of…

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Go with the snow this Sunday for World Snow Day

It’s World Snow Day on Sunday (20 January) with over 469 events in 45 countries around the world – and Scotland won’t miss out! The events include those in Europe, North and South America and Asia, encouraging more children to celebrate the fun of snow-sports like skiing and snowboarding. With the 8th World Snow Day organised…

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Romantic opera given a new Scots translation

Professional soloists and an orchestra join Paisley Opera’s full community chorus in their first ever full opera: a new production of Puccini’s romantic masterpiece, La Bohème. And to make it unique, it will feature a new, specially commissioned ‘Paisley’ translation. There will be four performances running from Friday 1 to Sunday 9 February 2019 in…

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Spreading the word to Drink Positive in health campaign

Scotch whisky employees from across Fife have teamed up with East Fife FC to promote a major responsible drinking campaign, Drink Positive. The alcohol education programme, run in partnership between the Scottish Football Association and Diageo, is delivering training to football fans, coaches and players on the effects alcohol has on the body, equipping them…

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7 dopamine rich comfort foods for Blue Monday

Blue Monday falls on January 21 this year, and is typically the day where most Scots feel a bit blue following the celebrations of Christmas and the long stretch until January payday. Forget ‘New Year, New You’, Gousto wants to spread a bit of ‘New Year cheer’ with a fantastic list of comforting food ideas & the…

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Museum will tell the story of war objectors

A new exhibition, Conscience Matters, is to open at the National War Museum in Edinburgh. Beginning on Friday 8 March, it will explore the little-known story of British conscientious objectors of the Second World War. The exhibition explores some of the reasons people have refused to take up arms during war and how such refusals…

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The story of the leopards of Aberdeen

The leopard – a heraldic symbol that has been noted in Aberdeen’s history for centuries. Pride of place on the Granite City’s coat of arms, two of these exotic creatures prop up the Bon Accord shield. Of course, many who walk the streets of the north east feel great pride at Aberdeen City and Shire’s…

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8 beach holidays that won’t ruin New Year’s resolutions

Travel agents all over the Scotland will be busy preparing for Sunshine Saturday tomorrow, 5 January. Holidaymakers are set to click ‘book now’ on their beach holiday destination of choice, but how does this fit in with the one in five of us setting our 2019 resolutions this week? In a recent survey, ‘to get…

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Scots shaping up given a healthy helping hand

Almost four in five of Scots plan to kick off the new year by going on a diet. That’s according to a survey undertaken as part of a new Specially Selected Pork campaign. New research, commissioned by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and carried out by Censuswide, reveals the majority of Scots are set to commit…

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Appliance of science exposes £635,000 of fake whisky

Laboratory tests on 21 different bottles of rare Scotch whisky, potentially worth around £635,000, have confirmed them all as modern fakes. Based on these results, Rare Whisky 101 (RW101), one of the world’s leading experts in rare whisky, has estimated that around £41M worth of rare whisky currently circulating in the secondary market, and present…

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