Posts Tagged ‘stirling’
Car clubs and bike share schemes rise in Scotland
More Scottish people are ditching their own cars and are finding new ways to travel through taking up travel incentives like pay-per-drive car clubs or joining bike share schemes. CoMoUK, a charity that promotes the environmental, economic, health and social benefits of shared transport for the public good, has published two new reports into car…
Read MoreLast chance saloon to fight against the fat tide
How can we stop our nation of couch potatoes from eating itself to death? We live in a time of virtuous role models in almost every sport, yet participation levels still falling, particularly among our children. What are the costs of our growing indolence? And if recent Olympic success on a previously undreamt-of scale is…
Read MoreSuccessful night for game and wildlife winners
Two game and wildlife trainees and a school pupil have won at prestigious awards. They took the honours at Lantra Scotland’s ALBAS (Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills), which took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Dunblane Hydro. Charlie Blance, aged 20 from Methven, Perthshire, won the Overall Winner Award, the highest accolade of…
Read MoreHannah Rarity to join Blazin’ Fiddles tour
Acclaimed Scots folk musician Hannah Rarity is to join Blazin’ Fiddles on tour this summer. Hannah’s sublime voice imbues the music she performs with a depth of emotion that is inimitable. It’s this ability that has seen her become one of Scotland’s foremost young singers. Winner of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the…
Read MoreBig names for this year’s Doune The Rabbit Hole festival
US hip-hop instigators Public Enemy (Radio) while award-winning, Mercury Music Prize nominated, award-winning performance poet, rapper, novelist and playwright Kate Tempest are coming to the Doune the Rabbit Hole festival. This is the only chance for festival fans to see both headliners in Scotland this summer. The headline acts join iconic Glasgow indie band Belle…
Read MoreRipping up the rulebook with a life less ordinary
The unconventional life of Laurence Oliphant took him from priviliged son of the British Empire via mysticism to Zionist pioneer. Seldom has there been a more romantic or amply filled career; never, perhaps, a stranger or more apparently contradictory personality,’ declared an obituary, published in The Times in 1888 for Laurence Oliphant, a man who…
Read MoreMichel Roux Jnr opens new housing development
Allanwater Homes Silver Glen development in Alva has had a very special visitor, with top chef and culinary legend, Michel Roux Jr, coming along to officially open the development’s first showhome. The four bedroom Cuillin showhome is the first showhome in Scotland to feature one of Michel’s range of kitchens, called Roux Kitchens which have…
Read MoreRoyal Air Forces Association needs helpers
The Royal Air Forces Association, which supports the wellbeing of RAF veterans, serving personnel and their dependants, needs more befrienders and caseworkers to meet growing demand for its services. While volunteers are sought across Scotland, the greatest need is in the central belt, including the Edinburgh and Glasgow areas, where many RAF veterans and their…
Read MoreArbikie boosts the Scottish rye whisky revival
Scottish ‘field to bottle’ distiller Arbikie has announced the arrival of its second release of Highland Rye single grain Scotch whisky. This is the second rye whisky released in Scotland in over 100 years, and the first four year old. Only 1220 bottles will be released, priced £250 each. Arbikie’s Highland Rye was laid down…
Read MoreArbikie Distillery celebrates major US export deal
Family-owned luxury spirits producer Arbikie celebrated its fifth birthday by signing an agreement that will see its brands exported to selected states in the United States. The Angus-based sustainable, field-to-bottle distiller has agreed a substantial distribution deal with a leading US importer. The distiller, which launched in 2014 with Scotland’s first potato vodka, distils vodka,…
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