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"My job was taking over my life. My former partner died. I had to be forced to take time off. It's not been an easy year"
Edinburgh Book Festival director Catherine Lockerbie speaks for the first time about 12 months of trauma ... and those rumours of an eating disorder
by Vicky Allan
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Dream team
On the eve of the Olympics Barry Didcock looks at the way sport has influenced fashion and transformed the way we dress.

The monumental crusader
Scotland has some of the world’s finest historical statues, according to sculptor Alexander Stoddart … if only we raised our eyes from the gutter to appreciate them
By Alan Taylor
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A PIECE OF MY MIND: Jason Byrne, comedian

On the waterfront: the living legend
Sunday Herald boxing correspondent Budd Schulberg won an oscar for his screenplay for On The Waterfront. As a film classic becomes a fringe play, Alan Morrison discovers that this success barely scratched the surface of a truly astonishing life

Standing up to be counted
Edinburgh's festival comedy scene may be embroiled in controversy as four big venues break away, but The Stand keeps the Fringe laughs coming.
By Jamie Lafferty

ON THE ROAD: Roddy Woomble
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Anti climax abounds
FILM REVIEWS By Demetrios Matheou

THE X-FILES: I WANT TO
BELIEVE (15)
Director: Chris Carter
**

MAN ON WIRE (12A)
Director: James Marsh
****

THE LOVE GURU (12A)
Director: Marco Schnabel
*

SARAH SILVERMAN: JESUS IS MAGIC (15)
Director: Liam Lynch
***

Accidental author
Kate Mosse doesn’t believe in fate, but she never set out to become a fiction writer
By Colin Waters

Alone again, Conor
CD of the week

CONOR OBERST
Conor Oberst
(Wichita)
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