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Michelin star chef Martin Wishart has joined forces with brewer Molson Coors to create a menu exclusively for Scottish pubs. The seasonal dishes – three starters, three mains and three desserts – have been designed to complement beers in Coors’ portfolio, which include Blue Moon, Singha, Grolsch, Animee, Cobra and Doom Bar. The partnership comes after research by Coors last year showed although half of pubs offer food, just one in ten Scots regularly eats in the pub.

A Glasgow-based supplier of audio visual equipment to the licensed trade has shut down its foreign satellite TV division, claiming it made the move to protect licensees against potential criminal prosecution. Scotsports, sister company to audio visual specialist SSUK, was closed by director Scott Maitland after it was ruled in the High Court earlier this month that pubs using foreign decoders to show English Premier League games infringe copyright law.

SCOTCH whisky producer Chivas Brothers has been awarded the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commendation Award from Healthy Working Lives (HWL). Chivas Brothers demonstrated the ways...

THE Harbour Inn & Restaurant on Islay has been relaunched with a new look. Owners Neil and Carol Scott have revamped the seven guest bedrooms...

CONSTRUCTION services firm ISG has secured a further two hotel projects in Scotland. The firm, which recently completed work to extend guest accommodation and refurbish...

AN Inverness-shire accommodation business has reopened following a revamp. Loch Ness Lodge, which is located on the banks of the loch, has seven bedrooms which...

UNTIL an Italian cruise ship ran aground, Tommy Sheridan was released, and the latest financial crisis to engulf Rangers FC hit the headlines, there...

BY the time this paper is in your hands, I will have hosted a workshop at the HIT Scotland Emerging Talent Conference at the...

SPEYSIDE whisky distillery The Balvenie has released its first ever ‘members only’ bottling. The Craftsman’s Reserve No1, The Cooper (ABV 59.4%), will be available...

A NEW cocktail menu has been launched in the bar at the Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor hotel. The new list at Bobar on Byres Road is...