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A British boy with an aggressive brain tumour who is to receive proton therapy in Prague has been undergoing tests at the Proton Therapy Centre. Five-year-old Ashya King arrived at the center with his parents on Tuesday morning and was greeted by the team of physicians who will be taking care of him. He underwent a CAT scan and a series of other tests in preparation for treatment. He is to undergo a series of 30 sessions of proton beam radiotherapy starting next week.

Prague City Hall has launched an audit into the US-based company Uber which launched its mobile app-based car rental service in the Czech capital in August. Auditors are checking to see if the alternate taxi service is abiding by the city’s rules and regulations. There are now 15 major taxi companies registered in the capital with around 4,200 vehicles.

Foreign diplomats from the US, British and Scandinavian embassies in Prague are assembling a football team to play a friendly against a local 3rd division team Junior Roma which is being cold shouldered by Czech rivals. Czech third division teams have refused to play against Junior Roma on the grounds that their game is excessively aggressive, but the team’s coach Pavel Horvath sees racism as the real reason behind the boycott. The friendly is to take place in Dečín on September 21st.

The anti-corruption unit of the Czech police has launched a probe into the cost of a Brno road tunnel over suspicions its construction was overpriced, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Tuesday. The 1.2 km-long Královopolský tunnel, which opened in 2012 as part of the city’s ring road, cost 12 billion crowns to build although originally, the costs were estimated at 3.5 billion. An earlier audit by the country’s Road and Motorway Directorate found abuse of public funds during the construction.