Vets’ pet support backed

DUNDEE MPs Chris Law and Stewart Hosie have backed pet charity the PDSA’s rollout of a new scheme to offer support to certain l ow-income pet owners.

The MPs met with senior vet Andy Cage at t he PDSA pet hospital in the West End following the charity’s announcement of a reduced cost service for those who are in receipt of numerous benefits.

State-retired pensioners who are householders in council tax bands A-D are also eligible for the reduced cost service.

Mr Law said: “The PDSA carry out excellent work helping some of Dundee’s poorest with care of their pets, and I was very happy to visit their centre and hear about their changes which will ultimately not only help t he animals themselves but also the pet owners.”

Mr Hosie added: “I’m happy to see this scheme being rolled out which will help pets and their owners across the city even more.”

Last year alone, the Dundee centre treated 4,000 pets in more than 20,000 procedures.

Members of a Dundee junior football club were stunned when they saw former Arsenal star Paul Merson wearing their club’s official tie live on Sky for the final day of the football season on Sunday.

The ex-England international had made good on a promise from earlier this month, when he appeared at the Invercarse Hotel in Perth Road for an Evening With Paul Merson.

Attended by more than 300 guests, proceeds from the event on May 6 were going towards the continued development of Dundee North End JFC.

Committee members from the team – nicknamed the Dokens – had approached Merson about wearing the club tie during his role as a pundit for Sky’s hugely popular Gillette Soccer Special programme.

And the former playmaker did not disappoint.

Merson was part of a panel reporting on the final day of the English Premiership season, and he wore the dark maroon and white tie of Dundee North End on Sunday.

Merson has now been hailed a “Doken Legend” for keeping up his part of the bargain.

Club president Robert Moran said the “down-to-earth” Merson had been asked on the night to wear it during a Sky Sports broadcast.

Mr Moran, 50, said: “We had Paul at the dinner on May 6.

“Paul had been approached about wearing the tie on the last weekend of the Premier League season.

“It was only the committee and the players who were aware of it.

“We didn’t want to make it public in case for whatever reason he couldn’t do it.

AS fans of Gillette Soccer Special might say, it was “unbelievable Jeff”.