Diageo may change damaged name, plans Johnnie Walker relaunch and fights...
The Daily Telegraph has reported that an item on the agenda for the Diageo’s forthcoming AGM is on changes to its articles of association – which the meeting will be asked to pass – including: ‘Change...
View ArticleVisitScotland’s Friendly Faces of Scotland campaign launches
VisitScotland’s latest campaign – this time a £1.25 million job targeted on Europe, centres on a random – well, sort of – selection of fifteen ‘friendly faces’ from across Scotland. Each of these will...
View ArticleArgyll link to newly-wed stabbed to death in America
Married only months ago in May 2010, 33 year-old Tracy Wyatt Brannan and her new husband, Dr Harold Brannan, a psychologist, were stabbed in their sleep on Saturday morning (24th July) at their home in...
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Award winning Argyll chef comes to Kilmartin
Award winning local chef, David Baird, has joined the team at the Kilmartin Museum Café, bringing with him over 20 years of experience of working in restaurants and cafes throughout Scotland.Moving...
View ArticleKilmartin Museum’s latest summer events
Kilmartin House Museum will have a presence at a wide range of major events in Argyll this summer.Come and talkJulia, from Kilmartin House Museum staff, will be at Inveraray Games on 17th July, looking...
View ArticleSeil woman in restaurant enterprise at Corrour on West Highland Line
We all know just how remote Corrour – Coire Odhar – is; and how magnificent.The recent landslide derailment of the freight train on the fabled West Highland Line was between Tulloch and Corrour – a...
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Rock Up In Red to first LORN market of 2013 – with guest Kintyre producers
The LORN local producers’ market is now almost entirely under cover at Kintaline Farm in Benderloch – but this Thursday, 7th March, the weather may do them a favour as well for the first market of the...
View ArticleCardwell Garden Centre Charity BBQ on 22nd June
The annual Cardwell Garden Centre BBQ day in Inverclyde is on Saturday 22nd June and this year’s event is set to be their biggest yet.The world famous Weber BBQ company will be there again this year...
View ArticleJames Martin’s Loch Fyne and Glen Food programme repeated tomorrow
The latest programme in James Martin’s BBC 2 programme, Food Map of Britain, on Wednesday night showed the chef on Loch Fyne, reeling in langoustines off Furnace ith Alastair Sinclar; and feeding...
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Mull’s Ninth Wave surfs to award win – against Michelin Star competition
[Update 29th October below] Talk about a David and Goliath contest. At the 2013 Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards, the little 18-covers Ninth Wave restaurant at Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull...
View ArticlePerth to start enterprise conference series showcasing Scottish cities
A two-year series of ‘enterprise conferences’ showcasing the best of Scotland’s cities got underway in Perth yesterday, 5th March.From the information provided by the Scottish Government, the big...
View ArticleSerco and the Caledonian sleeper contract: the issues
Transport Scotland has just made something of a controversial contract to the outsourcing specialist, Serco.Serco has been awarded a 15 year contract to deliver the Caledonian Sleeper rail service...
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Gigha Hotel’s all day meals make a day trip a delight
‘God’s island’, they say, is the meaning of ‘Gigha; the little inshore seasnake of an island on the west side of Argyll’s Kintyre peninsula.Yesterday, 26th June, it was hard to argue with that, on an...
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Mull’s Ninth Wave restaurant cook book to be published by BIrlinn
The Ninth Wave:Love and Food on the Isle of Mull, a memoir and cookbook full of the adventures of building and running a restaurant on the wild moors of a Hebridean Isle, is shortly to be published by...
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Michelin Star for restaurant at Isle of Eriska Hotel
Argyll’s 5 star Isle of Eriska Hotel has just been awarded a Michelin Star for the cuisine in its residents’ restaurant.Cooking aficionados at the recent BOWfest [Best of the West Festival ] at...
View ArticleGlasgow to get a Martin Wishart restaurant
This Autumn the acclaimed Chef, Martin Wishart, of Michelin starred Cameron House Hotel on Loch Lomond and the self-named Restaurant Martin Wishart in Leith in Edinburgh, is to team up with the...
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Campbell Cameron: Fratellis to headline TMF
And Tiree visitor & TV Chef, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, will be there to inspire the food.Tiree Music Festival [TMF] has pulled off an amazing coup yet again this year and has announced The...
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