The front of the station, Sir George Gilbert Scott's neo-Gothic building, will open as a five-star hotel in 2009.

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Researchers at University College London (UCL) have just finished a three-year study of British slave-owners and found the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all owned slaves.

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In 1822 Sir Walter Scott, a romantic novelist, was asked to stage-manage George IV's visit to Edinburgh.

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