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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Campbell

Jeremy Paxman invests in Scottish organic whisky distillery

Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman: ‘I have enjoyed a dram for more years than I care to remember.’ Photograph: Thousand Word Media Ltd/Alamy

Jeremy Paxman has invested in what is thought to be Scotland’s first organic whisky distillery, part-owned by the former prisons chief at the centre of his infamous interview with the former home secretary Michael Howard.

The University Challenge presenter is one of the financial backers of Nc’nean Distillery, a “green” Scotch producer on the Morvern peninsula in the west Highlands, founded by Derek Lewis, the former director general of the Prison Service, and his daughter, Annabel Thomas.

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