Herald Scotland The Sunday Times Bonmarché blames Brexit and weather for sliding profits new Bonmarché, the discount clothing retailer, blamed a string of factors, from bad weather to Brexit, for sliding annual profits and its failure to increase market share. The company, which specialises in clothing for women aged over 50, complained that last year had been more challenging than it had expected and that it had not managed to...Bonmarché, the discount clothing retailer, blamed a string of factors, from bad weather to Brexit, for sliding annual profits and its failure to increase market share. Read the full story A Taste of Scotland It was the readiness with which he spoke of them. It was the context. He knew that I had arrived in , for my first visit, just an hour earlier. “You have to eat haggis,” he said, not in the manner of someone making a recommendation but in the manner of someone issuing a dare. Haggis, as the Scottish-savvy know, is a mash of sheep organs: heart, liver, lungs. Part staple, part cliché, it persists, but why introduce it as the soul and glory of Scotland, especially to a first-time visitor who hadn’t flagged any particular culinary curiosity? I had nonetheless sketched out a stomach-centric itinerary, and I was counting on a lot more and a lot better than haggis. I was bound for the Highlands, mainly for the landscape. My friend Barbara and I plotted our route so that for each of three successive nights, we would stay in a town with a reputedly fine restaurant. This plotting was disconcertingly easy. “Then you’ll be visiting Summer Isles and Three Chimneys, won’t you?” “The castle?”
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