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A DUNDEE United fan was attacked and robbed of his scarf just hours after the team won the Scottish Cup final.
The 43 year-old was walking on Brook Street, just north of the city’s university campus, when he was assaulted.
Three teenagers shoved him to the ground and made off with his Tangerines scarf.
Police have appealed for witnesses to Saturday’s 10.30pm robbery.
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By Michael MacLeod
CELTIC goalkeeper Lukasz Zaluska has been hit with a fine for speeding near Edinburgh Zoo.
A speed camera caught the 27 year-old Poland international hitting 41mph in a 30mph zone on the capital’s Corstorphine Road on January 21 this year.
This week he admitted that he had been driving a car over the speed limit.
The Parkhead number two managed to keep a clean sheet in his side’s 4-0 win over Falkirk in the Co-operative Insurance Cup on Wednesday night.
But yesterday (Thurs) he got three penalty points on his licence at Edinburgh’s Justice of the Peace Court.
FOOTBALL daft telly star Lorraine Kelly says she’s terrified over the prospect of Setanta Sports going bust – because she won’t be able to watch her beloved Dundee United while filming in London.
The 49-year-old Arabs fan she is a subscriber to the beleaguered station like many of other Scots working away from home, and will be “devastated” if the channel has the plug pulled on it.
And she’s waiting anxiously to find out if the stricken subscription-only channel will plunge the league into limbo, fearing a blackout will leave the Tannadice club crippled for transfer cash.
She said: “I just hope they can find a buyer because a lot of clubs will be feeling it because it’s an awful lot of money that they owe.
A SCOTS artist once considered one of the country’s finest post-war landscape artists has left his entire £3million fortune to his wife.
But John Houston OBE plans for organizations supporting artists to eventually benefit from his works.
Mr Houston, who was born in the small Fife town of Buckhaven and was once capped for the Scottish international U-21 football team, passed away aged 78 last September.
Included in his legacy is his share of the family home in Edinburgh valued at an estimated £750,000, cash, shares and investments worth over £1 million, as well as his prized Mercedes Benz motorcar.
Throughout his life he continually championed art in his home country, collected scores of awards and titles, and was known for his intense, atmospheric landscapes exploring the dramatic effects of weather and light.
By Cara Sulieman
THE son-in-law of the late Eddie Thompson has left nearly £4 million in his will.
Kenneth Mitchell, 38, was killed in a motorbike accident whilst driving behind his wife on the A90 near Dalmeny in October last year.
And just three days later the Dundee United owner lost his battle with prostate cancer leaving Kenneth’s widow, Justine, to deal with two tragic losses
Now details of his will have been released and the father of two has left his entire estate to his wife, also 38.
The vast bulk of the multi-million pound fortune is property, with a total of five in prestigious parts of Edinburgh.
His legacy included the family home in Murrayfield along with two further buildings in the same area and two office spaces in the New Town.
And he also left the car number plate D2KEN, worth a whopping £10,000, along with £100 and some personal effects to his grieving widow.
Kenneth, who ran his own recruitment company, married Justine in 2004 at Dundas Castle, just three miles from the crash site.
The couple, who lived in Edinburgh, have a one-year-old son Monty together, and Kenneth had a daughter, Jessica, from a previous marriage.
It was in the last few days of Eddie Thompson’s battle against prostate cancer that Kenneth tragically lost control of his Harley Davidson on a bend and crashed.
His horror-stricken wife watched in her rear-view mirror as he fell from his bike, leaving him with fatal head injuries.
Emergency services raced to the smash but were unfortunately unable to save Kenneth who died on the scene.
The bike had been a gift from his wife Justine only a month before the crash and he was trying it out for the first time.
And just three days later, his grieving widow suffered another blow when her father lost his battle to prostate cancer.
Kenneth’s mother, Christine Mitchell, said that the family are still coming to terms with what happened to her son.
She said: “We are still very raw, but we are coping.
“Kenneth was a bit of a charmer and had done very well for himself. He could always get himself out of a sticky situation.
“We got so many flowers sent to us at the time from people who cared and grieved for Kenneth.
“Sometimes it just doesn’t feel like he’s gone, even when we’re up at his grave. It just doesn’t feel real.
“Kenneth didn’t have any money to leave as far as I was aware. The house must be worth an awful lot.”
All the Thompson’s were all close to the tragic father-of-two, and he was well liked at Tannadice Park.
None of the Thompson family would comment on the estate Kenneth left behind, or say how they are now coping with his death.
Speaking at the time, Stephen Thompson, Justine’s brother, said that is was a tragic waste of life.
He said: “Justine, Monty and Jessica are devastated by the sudden loss of Ken, a much-loved husband and father.
“He was their whole life and had so much to live for, and so much left to give.”
And Derek Robertson, a director at the club and close friend of the family, said everyone at the club was devastated by the news.
He said at the time: “We are all extremely upset at this tragic news.
“Ken was a well-known and popular figure at Tannadice, particularly on match days and was clearly devoted to his family.”
It was later revealed that Kenneth was banned from driving at the time of the crash, having been up at Edinburgh Sheriff Court in July 2008 for using his phone whilst driving.
With an already tarnished licence, he received an automatic six-month ban when the three points he got for the offence took him up to the 12-point limit.
ONE of Scotland’s top football bosses has bared all in an online film to raise awareness for a cancer charity.
Dundee Utd manager Craig Levein’s cheeky move came as he appeared in a five-minute charity film for Prostate Scotland.
During the spoof sports-show ad Levein is seen being interviewed by radio personality Grant Stott before turning on his heels and showing off his bare backside.
The hilarious advert is currently the talk of football forums up and down the country.
Hearts legend Levein is joined in light-hearted charity promo by Stott and former Scotland rugby captain Chris Patterson.
The film coincides with the launch of the website for Edinburgh-based charity Prostate Scotland, an organisation which hopes to raise awareness of the disease and to encourage men to discuss their own health.
It is estimated that almost half (43%) of Scottish men will be affected by prostate cancer sometime in their lives, and between 2000-06 a massive 5457 men died in Scotland from the disease.
The charity has recruited Levein, Stott and Patterson to help persuade Scots men that visiting their GP need not be embarrassing.
Former Scottish-internationalist Levein has a personal interest in the cause after close friend and Dundee Utd chairman Eddie Thomson died from the disease last year.
In the five minute clip – available from today on the charity’s website – Levein and Patterson recreate a sports show format and give spoof after-match interviews on the subject of prostate cancer with presenter Stott.
The hilarious clip then ends with Levein walking away from the camera in a hospital gown revealing his bare behind.
Describing the operation Levein says: “The thing was – I just didn’t know what to expect.
“I just had to get in there, do what needed to be done and, hopefully, get a good result.”
Recent research shows a massive 89 per cent did not know the function the prostate, while two thirds (66%) don’t know where the prostate is located.
Survival rates are around 80 per cent, but early detection is key to this statistic.
Robert Wilson, chairman of Prostate Scotland, said: “The research proved there is a lack of awareness, with only 28 per cent of people surveyed being close to aware of the prevalence of prostate disease.
“The website contains some important awareness materials to help reverse this gap in information.”
Presenter Grant Stott admitted he “couldn’t believe the figures of people at risk were so high”.
He said: “I just had to help raise awareness of this common but often unspoken disease and, hopefully, encourage more people to talk openly about a subject which shouldn’t be taboo.”
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