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Behind The Scenes at the Lady Haig Poppy Factory

For more than ninety years the Poppy Factory in London has been crafting the flowers to wear on Remembrance day.
 
But what many people don't realise is that there is also a factory in Edinburgh, hand-making more than five million poppies a year for the whole of Scotland.
 
Two months ahead of this years remembrance services, our reporter Ali Gibson has been given a guided tour.

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