Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Service of thanks for the NHS
LOCHEE Parish Church is set to hold a special service with Shona Robison to mark the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service.
The service, l ed by Reverends Mike Mair and Erik Cramb, will see the health secretary and Dundee East MSP participate in proceedings.
The ministers will lead a service i n which t hey express gratitude for the health service’s founders and all those who have worked for it in the years since, and will pray for its future.
Rev Mair said the service was open to any and all, regardless of religion.
He said: “We recognise how much we all owe to the NHS, our most treasured political institution.
“We want to i nv i t e people whose lives have been saved by the NHS, staff – from consultants to auxiliary nurses – and anyone who cares about the welfare of society to join us regardless of creed or political affiliation.”
The service takes place at the church at 191 High Street on Sunday at 11am.
Library worker Duncan Falconer, 39, came home from an evening out to find an iPad and a PlayStation 4 missing, along with several games for the console – worth a combined £1,000.
He said he had been left disturbed by the intrusion, knowing that a stranger had been rifling through his personal possessions – and was kicking himself for leaving a window unlatched.
“It’s a breach of your personal space. It’s knowing that somebody has been in and among all your things,” he said.
“I didn’t realise I had left the window unlatched before I went out that night.”
Duncan believes the thief entered his flat from the pathway to the rear of the tenement block.
“It was sometime between 10pm and 3am – they must have come in through the hopper window in my bedroom, which was open,” he added.
“They’ve taken an iPad and a PS4 and some games – all at some point while I was out. I just went to the pub.
“I didn’t even realise for five minutes that someone had been in until I went looking for a charger and realised it wasn’t there.
“There’s no sign of forced entry or anything like that – I think they’ve just come in through that window.
“But they would have had to have come in through the backies as well.
“I think they might have seen the iPad lying on the bed through the window and that’s tempted them.
“They had absolutely no business being in the backies though. They shouldn’t be round there.”
A DUNDEE man is hoping locals will spot computer games which were stolen by an opportunist thief who climbed into his flat through an open window.
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Forensic officers visited the flat in Bellefield Avenue in the West End yesterday to look for fingerprints.
Duncan said he had been reassured by the visiting officers that there were “standard procedures” for dealing with such thefts – and he hoped that locals would keep an eye open for his goods turning up.
Thieves who make off with expensive electronics have been known to try to sell them to unsuspecting customers in pubs.
“It felt like a pretty routine thing for the police. It was actually reassuring that they had a procedure for it,” Duncan added.
“My parents’ house was broken into 20 years ago but I’ve had nothing similar since.
“The police think they’ve got a complete fingerprint. I just hope the fingerprints they have found aren’t mine – but they took mine as well just to be sure.”
A Police Scotland spokeswoman confirmed officers were investigating th theft. She said: “We are making inquiries into a break-in on Bellefield Avenue.”