'Friendly' China sends giant pandas

Tuesday 29 November 2011 01:00 GMT

Giant panda Yang Guang (AP)

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The first giant pandas to live in the UK for 17 years will arrive at Edinburgh Zoo from the Ya'an reserve in Chengdu, China, on Sunday. First Minister Alex Salmond described Yang Guang and Tian Tian's 10-year stay as representative of the "growing friendship between Scotland and China".

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