Once-thriving luxury Scots shopping centre now abandoned with access fenced off


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Invalid email Something went wrong, please try again later. Get the latest West Lothian Courier news and sport sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterA once-thriving luxury Scots shopping centre which was the go-to place for designer gear still stands like an abandoned 'ghost town' almost 20 years after it closed. The Freeport Shopping Centre near West Calder in West Lothian was hailed as a new 'premier outlet for designer clothes' in Scotland when it opened in 1996. 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 course, in an upgrade. This week, Edinburgh Live sent out a reporter to West Lothian to see what's left of it today.