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Moonpig have created a personalised card for a Scots pensioner who spent her 100th birthday alone - with all the proceeds going to charity.

We told how mum-of-one Edna Clayton received thousands of cards and gifts from strangers ahead of her 101st birthday on January 31.

It came after Glasgow 's Hector House Care Home, where Edna is a resident, launched an appeal when they discovered the centurion spent her milestone date alone in lockdown last year.

Edna is now set to have have a trip on a party bus with son James, 58, and pals from the care home before a birthday tea party.But in the latest development, card giants Moonpig have created a special card in Edna's honour - and they're allowing folk to send it straight to her door.Profits from the card will be donated to Independent Age, a charity which provides free support for older people to help them continue living life independently, as well as relieving loneliness in later life.It's a fitting tribute to Edna, who until August last year was living on her own at her home in Battlefield in the south side of Glasgow.Angela Todd, manager at Hector House, said:“Both myself and Edna have been overwhelmed by the response.

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