Kayaking raises funds and awareness of festival

Fundraising is underway in a bid to create a 100% renewable energy powered festival in 2019. Two women embarked on a mighty kayak challenge from Glasgow to Edinburgh to raise funds and awareness for renewable energy. Clemence Cocquet, founder and CEO of Scapa Fest, the UK’s Yoga and Adventure Festival, and ambassador Anna Neubert-Wood kayaked…

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You won’t want to miss Missy’s new single

A Scots singer is on the road to release her second single of the year. Missy Mcanulty, from Edinburgh, has performed at 11 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a successful show at Sneaky Pete’s, the singer and songwriter Missy Mcanulty is back with her second single release of the year Yellow Brick Road,…

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Just four days left till the 177th Lonach Gathering

This weekend will see the 177th Lonach Highland Gathering and Games take place in Aberdeenshire. Being held at Bellabeg Park in Strathdon, the event on Saturday, 25 August, maintains the long-standing tradition of the event taking place on the fourth Saturday in August. The Lonach Highland and Friendly Society was founded in 1823 by Sir…

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe review: Elsie Thatchwick

I used to blub like a baby at the Little House on the Prairie even as a teenager, but as a grown man the only times I’ve cried were when I had to put my favourite dog down and when wasting three hours trying to put up a tent after a bottle of wine and…

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Enjoy Scotland’s dramatic dark skies under canvas

Families who enjoy the great outdoors can get together under the stars early next month. They are being offered the chance to join an overnight camp out beneath the dramatic dark skies of the Craigengillan Estate near Loch Doon – Europe’s first UNESCO Dark Sky Reserve – from Saturday, August 4 to Sunday, August 5.…

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The countdown to Cowal gathering is underway

The countdown has finally begun for this year’s Cowal Highland Gathering. With just four months to go until thousands of competitors and spectators descend on Dunoon, organisers have launched a new video showcasing the event’s fierce competition, music and entertainment. Due to take place from 23-25 August, preparation for the Cowal Highland Gathering is well…

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Actor Gregor Fisher discusses his favourite whisky

The Rab C Nesbitt actor tells us about Scotland’s national drink. Do you remember the first time you drank whisky? Yes, my mother was never a big drinker, but she always enjoyed a whisky and lemonade and would make me one too. That was the tipple of the time. It would be something very ordinary,…

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Raising a glass with a Scotch whisky – at the South Pole

Whisky lovers around the world no doubt brought in the New Year with a tipple of Scotland’s national drink. But you can be sure no one enjoyed a more remote dram than Antarctic explorer Barney Swan – who is currently en route to the South Pole. On Hogmanay he and his team of three toasted…

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Have you got what it takes to enter the Great British Bake Off?

Scots are being encouraged to get off their soggy bottoms and enter next year’s Great British Bake Off. The hit TV show, which moved from the BBC to Channel 4 this year, is looking for Britain’s best home bakers to enter the tent. Scots have appeared regularly on the show, with Glasgow-based James Morton reaching…

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