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30 June 2008
Bands get behind Lyndsey’s brainwave
 

Organiser Lyndsey (in pink) with volunteers and supporters.

 
A host of Dundee bands helped raise thousands of pounds for Ninewells Hospital’s neurosurgery and neurology departments.
Groups such as Isis, The Joots, Hi 5 Alive, The Trend, The Brogues and Hanney played at “Neuro-fest” in Downfield football park.

The concert was organised by Dundee mum Lyndsey Tinney (32) as a thank-you to the hospital after surgeons removed a tumour from her brain in 2006.

Lyndsey was pregnant when diagnosed and doctors had to induce her son a month early so she could undergo the 10-hour operation.

Since then Lyndsey, has been raising funds for the neurology and neurosurgery wards at Ninewells.

She said, “I am eternally grateful to the wonderful nursing staff and surgeon who have given me a new lease of life.

“Hopefully the money raised will benefit patients and families who are cared for in the wards for many years to come.”

Lindsey’s friend Angela Ferguson, whose mother died of a brain tumour in 2006, helped organise the concert.