Monifieth chef and college lecturer Michael Robinson has died after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 52.
Mr Robinson who had cooked for the Queen, a number of other members of the royal family, and many celebrities also trained up-and-coming chefs at colleges in Dundee and Perth.
He also enjoyed helping disadvantaged young people develop their skills, giving his time to projects at Dundee charity centres The Shore and The Helm.
Mr Robinson came to Scotland in 1979, having been born and raised in Hartlepool in County Durham, and began working as a commis chef as part of a Gleneagles kitchen team of around 100.
He went on to work at the Old Course Golf and Country Club in St Andrews, the Grosvenor and Albany in Glasgow, and latterly spent 12 years as head chef at the Woodlands Hotel in Broughty Ferry.
Despite battling a brain tumour, he had continued to cook for day-care patients at Roxburghe House where he had been a resident since May each Friday until very recently.
Mr Robinson and his wife Lynda married in 1985 after meeting in St Andrews.
He is also survived by 19-year-old son Ryan, and brothers Ian and David.
