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Award-winning Scottish oats take the biscuit

In this issue of Community Update, we are delighted to award McKenzie’s Biscuits with our Commitment to Excellence Award. McKenzie’s Biscuits is not just an award-winning bakery and biscuit business, it pays homage to treasured family recipes, passed down from father to son. In 1952 Alexander McKenzie opened an artisan bakery in Turriff, in rural […]

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Company Of The Month: Scottish Lowland whisky distillery tour praised by visitors

In this issue of Community Update we are proud to announce Bladnoch Distillery as our Scottish whisky distillery Company of the Month. The Scotch Whisky industry provided £5.3bn in gross value added (GVA) to the UK economy in 2018 and furthermore, provided employment to more than 11,000 Scots and over 42,000 across the whole of […]

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Drag Queen wedding ceremony adds colourful flamboyance to special day

Community Update is delighted to announce that Proud Fox Ceremonies has received our Commitment to Excellence Award. Wedding celebrants have been on the rise in recent years, with many couples wishing to personalise ceremonies. There is growing momentum for celebrants to have adopted legal status for conducting ceremonies through a law commission paper. Proud Fox […]

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Secluded, elegant, bespoke DIY wedding venue

Imagine saying ‘I do,’ in a stunning 19th century walled garden, surrounded by coral peonies, ruby-red roses and pom-pom alliums, then feasting like royalty next to a fire pit under a rural, Scottish sky? The Teasses Estate in Ceres, Fife offers couples the perfect, idyllic venue for the DIY wedding of your dreams.  As the […]

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Stunning wedding images captured by accomplished photographer

In this issue of Community Update, we are awarding Nathan O’Brien Photography with our Commitment to Excellence Award for exemplary, wedding photography.  A good wedding photographer captures all the joy of the special day: an outstanding photographer captures golden wedding jewellery reflecting in the dappled sunlight at a Hindu wedding, a stolen, secret garden kiss […]

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Sustainable solution to single-use agricultural plastic

In this issue of Community Update we are proud to announce Solway Recycling as the recipient of our Commitment to Excellence Award.  Solway Recycling is a member of the Green Tractor Scheme, providing highly sustainable solutions for plastics in the agricultural sector.  Roy and Sharon Hiddleston established Solway Recycling 23 years ago, after seeing a […]

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Award-winning historical markets welcome shoppers to Oswestry

Oswestry is an ancient, market town in north west Shropshire, close to the Welsh border, and is the birthplace of the much-lauded World War One poet, Wilfred Owen. During the summer, many visitors come to the spectacular annual August Oswestry hot air balloon carnival or takeover Food and Drink festival in July, spilling over into […]

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Expert cleaning is the backbone of poultry farming 

In this issue of Community Update we are awarding Steve Birchall Poultry Services Ltd with our Commitment to Excellence Award. Poultry farming is the mainstay of many British farmers supplying to supermarkets and wholesalers. Demand for eggs in restaurants, cafes and household remain high as the lifelong British love affair with omelettes, quiches, crepes and […]

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Innovative, global farm plastics recycling company spearhead environmental change

Solway Recycling is one of the leading global suppliers of farm plastics recycling systems, with an additional superb range of 100% manufacturer recycled plastic farming products. Established 23 years ago by Manging Director, Roy Hiddleston, who saw a niche market for precision agricultural recycling. Historically, cross-contamination of plastics proved cumbersome for effective recycling, leading to […]

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