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Times Online reports on the retirement of 27-year-old Mercedes, Britain's only polar bear, to her new home in Kingussie. She joins her former fellow Edinburgh Zoo residents, the red pandas and the Amur Tigers, who are all enjoying the colder climate of the Scottish Highlands. The new polar bear enclosure, which is the size of four football pitches, is the largest in the world by bear-to-space ratio. Canadian-born Mercedes has a life expectancy of three more years in which to enjoy her new-found freedom (of sorts).
