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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20050605
Author:Alan Taylor

A SCOOPETTE: Unfashionable as it may be to admit it, but I am fan of Sir Walter Scott, the only author ever to have had a leaky railway station named after one of his books.

While there is continued uncertainty over the future of Scott's pile, Abbotsford, in the Borders, there may be a glimmer of hope over the resuscitation of his ailing reputation.

Last week, at a gathering of the Sir Walter Scott Club, representatives from Sunburst, a Surrey-based film production company, reported on their plan to make a movie based on the life of the wizard of the north.

Several millions have already been ...

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