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Wigtown Jail reopens for book festival

WIGTOWN'S former jail will open to the public for the first time more than a century after the last prisoner left.

The 19th-century building will play host to a new theatre show as part of the Wigtown Book Festival next month. Based on Victorian legal records, The Ballad of Wigtown Gaol tells the stories of some of the miscreants who were once incarcerated there.