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In between the indulgence of the Christmas dinners, it's good to have a faithful stand-by Scotch broth recipe to keep you going without over doing it!

Spice up the humble fruit cake with a generous glug of whisky - that's the way Kirsten Gilmour serves hers in Aviemore's Mountain Cafe!

It was a fantastic night for The Scots Magazine team at the PPA Scotland Awards 2021, taking home one win and one commendation.

It might be a bit colder and darker in the evenings, but nothing beats wee autumn wanders in Scotland. Take a look at our top autumnal walks.

  The names in this country reflect a myriad of influences and changing languages – Brythonic/Brittonic, Cumbric, Gaelic, Pictish and eventually English and Scots, to name but a few. It can be difficult to determine the exact origin of some of the names that have since been “adopted” as a new language evolved, but some of the possible origins are fascinating.   Flemish in Friockheim The village of Froickheim (pronounced Freek-um) in Angus translates literally as “Heather Home”, but from a mash of two completely different languages. “Froick” comes from the Gaelic “ fraoch”...