Culture
Echoes and Traces Across Scotland
The world premiere concert tour of Echoes and Traces is about to bring a 900- year-old plain-song fragment from Orkney back to life with eight new choral works by eight […]
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Edinburgh Festivals 2016
Back in the office after a week exploring the best of the Edinburgh Festivals, where we had some fabulous experiences – and made some elementary mistakes. If you’re planning a […]
What’s On
Match Your Whisky To Your Personality!
How do you choose your whisky? The look of the label? The shape of the bottle? You know what you like and you’re sticking to it? It was your dad’s […]
Culture
Celebrating Old Newport-on-Tay
The Old Newport and Wormit exhibition will open later this month for a fascinating insight into Fife’s past… Over the last weekend in August (Saturday, 27, and Sunday, 28) visitors […]
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Mementos of the Past
Inside the Old Newport and Wormit Exhibition, with organiser Mairi Shiels “The villagers of Newport-on-Tay and Wormit are in for a treat over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday […]
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There Was A Soldier…
A new Fringe show commemorates West Lothian’s contribution to the First World War “We were clearing out my late aunt’s house a few years ago,” explains Liz Reid, the […]
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Our Buried Bones
Discover the health and history of our ancestors in a UK-wide tour this summer. Excavations have uncovered burial grounds across the UK, ranging from the Neolithic period through the Iron Age […]
Recipes
Millers Larder Recipe
After a successful year at the Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards, Millers Larder have a few recipes to share with us… Millers Larder are artisan producers of handmade […]
Islands
Barra – Whisky Galore and So Much More!
Discover the origins of the classic Scottish comedy Whisky Galore Landing on the beach runway on Barra has long been on my bucket list – and as our tiny 12-seater plane […]
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Continuing Legacy
For 39 years, the influence of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on the St Magnus Festival, Orkney’s yearly music extravaganza, was huge. While the Festival is always a celebration of his […]
