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Sian Traynor

Tributes flood in for Edinburgh schoolboy after tragic brain tumour diagnosis

An Edinburgh family have paid tribute to their "wee warrior" after their son tragically passed away this week.

Messages of support have flooded in after local schoolboy, Rudi Abbott, died at the age of eight following a three-year diagnosis with a rare grade four pineoblastoma.

First discovered to be suffering from the brain tumour in August 2020, Rudi had undergone a series of treatments and therapies, with the family travelling to Seattle for an experimental trial last year.

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