A gin company has created a limited edition bottle using rare and exotics plants grown at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). Edinburgh Gin 1670 is named in honour of the year that the garden was founded almost 350 years ago and today welcomes nearly a million visitors a year. Head Distiller, David Wilkinson worked closely […]
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Beguiling show is a touching history lesson
Theatre review: War Horse (5/5) When the author Michael Morpurgo was researching what started out as a children’s book, he discovered that an estimated 10 million army horses perished in the First World War. His book went stratospheric and the stage version has been seen by seven million theatregoers, touched by the moving tale of […]
Cognitive Geology opens new headquarters
A reception was held to mark the opening of software company Cognitive Geology’s new offices in Edinburgh, with a prediction that they may already struggle to cope with its rapid expansion. The company is one of Scotland’s fastest-growing tech start-ups and has taken a sixth floor suite at 40 Torphichen Street. Cognitive Geology was founded […]
Avengers puts Scottish film making in focus
Movie-goers are used to catching glimpses of Scottish locations standing in for other places: Victorian London, twenties New York and sundry fictionalised towns and cities. The latest and much-anticipated edition in the Avengers superhero franchise will see Edinburgh used for once as a fantastic and futuristic setting and its part in the £400 million blockbuster […]
Naughtie ‘humbled’ as portrait enters national collection
Broadcaster James Naughtie said he was ‘humbled’ to have his portrait hung among some of Scotland’s eminent achievers. The work, by the artist Brendan Kelly, is to enter Scotland’s National Collection and is now on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. It depicts Naughtie at his Edinburgh home and was specially commissioned […]