Robert Athol News Today

The work was carried out as part of the Pioneering Spirit project - a partnership between the National Trust for Scotland and The Glenlivet

Archaeologists have returned to the site of the first legal distillery in Speyside to track how whisky went from a black market operation woven into the fabric of Scotland’s rural communities to one of the country’s biggest exports.

Archaeologists have begun excavating land in the site of the former Glenlivet Distillery to uncover the history of Scotland's whisky trade.

Students at Jesus College are demanding Cambridge remove a plaque to Tobias Rustat after it emerged that he had held a leadership position in the slave-trading firm the Royal African Company.

Undergraduates at the college are demanding the removal of a plaque to Tobias Rustat, a courtier to King Charles II, after it emerged that he had held a leadership position in a slave-trading firm.

An ecclesiastical court hearing is being held to determine whether a memorial to a man who invested in slave trading companies should be relocated.

An ecclesiastical court hearing is being held to determine whether a memorial to a man who invested in slave trading companies should be relocated.

An ecclesiastical court hearing is being held to determine whether a memorial to a man who invested in slave trading companies should be relocated.

An ecclesiastical court hearing is being held to determine whether a memorial to a man who invested in slave trading companies should be relocated.

An ecclesiastical court hearing is being held to determine whether a memorial to a man who invested in slave trading companies should be relocated.