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Icons of Scotland

Sally Toms introduces the winners of the fifth annual Icons of Scotland awards

It’s that time of year again. The time where Scotland Magazine recognises the very best of all things Scottish with our prestigious Icons of Scotland awards. This is the fifth year of the annual awards, but this time we’ve chosen to do things a little differently. In previous years the Icons would ...

By Sally Toms from Issue 32 published on 13/04/2007

Variety is the key to Icon awards

Tartan Week 2005, and New York was abuzz for the Scotland Magazine Icons of Scotland awards dinner held in the Starlight Room of the Waldorf=Astoria on Manhattan’s Park Avenue. Held in tandem with the American Scottish Foundations’ Wallace Award, now in its 49th year, the Icons of Scotland awards, ...

By Dominic Roskrow from Issue 20 published on 10/04/2005

Icons comes of age in downtown New York

Celebrities and politicians attended a glittering awards night in the heart of New York as a highlight of Tartan Week. Dominic Roskrow reports

Crazy place, New York. Crazier still when it’s packed from one end to the other with Scotsmen. So it was for Tartan Week, which imposed itself on the Big Apple in some style. Pride of place in a week of activities was Scotland Magazine’s own Icons of Scotland Awards, in association with VisitScotla...

By Dominic Roskrow from Issue 15 published on 18/7/2004

Making waves in the Big Applie

OUR ICONS OF SCOTLAND AWARDS, HELD TO MARK THE MAGAZINE’S OFFICIAL LAUNCH IN THE STATES, SHOWED HOW BROAD THE APPEAL OF SCOTLAND IS. DOMINIC ROSKROW REPORTS

Do you know that feeling of overwhelming well-being that you get at the end of doing something that you’re really proud of? You’re dog-tired, but the weariness mixes with your contentment so that you sit in a reverie until someone invariably says, “which bit did you like the most?” So it was with t...

By Dominic Roskrow from Issue 8 published on 17/5/2003