Well-known former Tayside sportsman and businessman Marshall Key has died. He was 83.
Mr Key enjoyed a 20-year career in ice hockey before he became the face of two successful pub restaurants in the Dundee area.
Born in the city on June 18 1932, Mr Key attended Downfield Primary School and Morgan Academy.
He fell in love with ice hockey at the former Dundee Angus Ice Rink on the Kingsway, and played for the junior Dundee Rockets team aged 13.
He went on to play as the lone Scot among Canadians for the senior Dundee Tigers at age 16, gaining a variety of honours.
Mr Key was able to continue playing during his National Service as he was posted to RAF Leuchars.
After stints in Perth and Switzerland, Mr Key was voted best British player for Harringay Racers in 1958 and was part of the first western team to play behind the Iron Curtain, before crowds of up to 44,000 people.
During this time he married fellow Dundonian Doreen Mollison.
Mr Key added service with Edinburgh Royals and Paisley Pirates to his record before taking over his father Harry’s Lindsay Street newsagents in 1962.
An avid golfer, Mr Key was a member of the Downfield, Carnoustie, Rosemount (Blairgowrie), and St Andrews New clubs, reduced his handicap to one and was chosen to play for Angus County.
He always maintained it was harder for him to play golf well than ice hockey, and went back to play for Edinburgh for two seasons in 1963, captaining a Great Britain side in the 1965 World Ice Hockey Championships in Finland.
He fully retired from the sport in 1971 and was voted into the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008. He performed the opening ceremony at Dundee Ice Arena in 2000, and one of its function suites is named for him.
In 1982 Mr Key bought a former jute warehouse in Lindsay Street and built up the Keyhole Lounge bar and restaurant as a family business, selling in 1988 to buy the Invergowrie Inn, which he ran with son Gary until retirement in 1996.
Mr and Mrs Key bought a holiday home in Florida in 1991 and spent most of the next 20 winters there.
Mr Key is survived by his wife Doreen, daughter Susan, son Gary and his wife Judith, and granddaughter Rachel.