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Inside Scottish 'zombie town' shopping centre abandoned 25 years after opening

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There's one truly deserted shopping centre in the UK this Boxing Day and it's in West Lothian. Pictures show the derelict Scottish shopping centre that's been sitting empty and abandoned for 17 years.

Five Sisters Freeport Shopping Village opened 25 years ago in 1996 claiming to be Scotland's new premier outlet for designer garb with over 40 stores.But those ambitions fell short after it closed up shop after a mere eight years - and it's been deserted ever since.

It looks so dire that the BBC used it for filming a zombie children's show in 2015, Edinburgh Live reports. The 50,000sq ft shopping centre attracted over a million visitors in its first year and promised to extend to include more leisure facilities, like a snow centre and a golf

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