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May 27, 2012
Borlänge
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Sweden's best Christmas markets
Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
Christmas markets are a feature of Yuletide in Sweden and The Local has put together a pick of the best, all featuring warm spiced "glögg" for the adults, and plenty of fun activites for the children.
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23 Swedish women guilty in child porn case
National: 18 Oct 11
All 23 women on trial for possessing and distributing child pornography were convicted by a Swedish court on Tuesday, along with a 43-year-old man believed to be the mastermind behind the network.
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Actor blackmailed over masturbation film
Society: 5 Oct 11
A 26-year-old man has been charged with blackmail after using a female online alias to demand money from a famous Swedish actor to prevent a film of him masturbating going public.
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Swedish preschools use GPS to avoid losing kids
Education: 21 Sep 11
Toddlers adorned with GPS transmitters are becoming an increasingly common sight at Swedish daycares and preschools in an effort to make it easier for staff to find tots who are hiding or have gone astray.
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Operator sends neighbour, not ambulance, to help injured woman
Society: 5 Aug 11
Rather than send an ambulance to respond to a call from an injured woman in Borlänge in central Sweden, emergency services operator SOS Alarm elected to call on an elderly couple living nearby to check on her instead.
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Red Bull vanquished by Bad Bull in Swedish trademark battle
Business & Money: 4 Aug 11
The long running trademark dispute between beverage company Red Bull and Swedish event organiser Bad Bull Entertainment has finally come to end, forcing Red Bull to retreat with its tail between its legs.
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Peace, love and 'the delirium of existence'
Lifestyle: 5 Jul 11
Ever wondered what a small Swedish town looks like when 50,000 music lovers invade its streets? Contributor Caroline Bursell finds out as she joins the throngs of festival-goers at Sweden's Borlänge Peace & Love festival 2011.
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Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson in Almedalen
Politics: 4 Jul 11
The American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson arrived on the Baltic island of Gotland on Sunday, to take part in the annual “political” week in the Almedalen park, in Visby.
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Unruly start to Swedish music fest
Society: 30 Jun 11
The music festival Peace & Love in Borlänge, in central Sweden, was off to an unruly start on Wednesday, with local police kept busy and holding facilities at capacity.
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Swedish music fans brace for summer festival frenzy
Lifestyle: 17 Jun 11
With Sweden's summer musical festival season hitting high gear, The Local's Geoff Mortimore highlights some of the hottest events taking place around the country this summer.
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Young man killed after mass brawl
National: 28 May 11
Three people have been arrested in Borlänge in central Sweden after a man in his twenties was run over and killed after two groups clashed in the town on Friday night.
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Snowfalls put Swedish spring on ice
Science & Technology: 18 Mar 11
A weather front of snow has swept in across Sweden on Friday causing a slew of traffic accidents, while falling ice forced a closure of the Öresund bridge.
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Swedish man paid salary of two kronor
Business & Money: 26 Feb 11
A man in Börlänge, northern Sweden, got something of a shock when he opened his payslip to find that his monthly salary was a grand total of two kronor.
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Fire extinguisher behind post office explosion
National: 2 Feb 11
The explosion at a post terminal in Borlänge in central Sweden on Wednesday morning was caused by a fire extinguisher, Dalarna police have confirmed.
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Derailment cuts off trains to northern Sweden
National: 18 Jan 11
Train service on Sweden's northern main line will be interrupted for several days after a derailment in Jämtland on Monday evening.
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Nearly half of Swedish wolf hunt quota met
Science & Technology: 15 Jan 11
Sweden's wolf hunt for the year began on Saturday, with nine wolves out of the allotted annual quota of 20 shot by 1pm, as protesters set off fireworks at a hunting area in Dalarna.
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Four Swedish women still held in child porn sting
National: 22 Oct 10
Police in Sweden are still holding four of the 20 women arrested on Wednesday in a series of raids directed at a suspected child pornography network.
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Swedish SMS text championships kick off
Science & Technology: 29 Jun 10
Sweden's nimble-fingered youth gather in Borlänge in central Sweden on Thursday to kick start the heats for the national SMS text-message championships, which culminates in a Stockholm final on August 14th.
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Alm free to claim fiancée's life insurance
National: 29 May 10
Mattias Alm, 35, is free to claim the one million kronor ($130,000) joint life insurance policy he signed with his 32-year-old fiancée Linda Chen now that a court has cleared him of her murder.
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Fiancé not guilty of Linda Chen murder: court
National: 28 May 10
Mats Alm, 35, has been found not guilty in a preliminary ruling by Falun district court of the murder of his 32-year-old fiancée Linda Chen.
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Liberal MP: Legalize prostitution
Society: 8 May 10
Liberal Party member of parliament Camilla Lindberg has argued that Sweden should legalize prostitution and provide greater social security for practitioners of the "oldest profession".
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New EU rules open Sweden's airspace
National: 23 Apr 10
Flights are now permitted across the whole of Sweden, as Stockholm-Arlanda, Bromma and Malmö airports all remained open overnight. The latest reports from Iceland indicate that the volcano remains stable.
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Murder mystery trial opens in Swedish town
National: 29 Mar 10
The trial of a 34-year-old Swedish man for the murder of his 32-year-old fiancée has opened in Falun in central Sweden, in a case whose intricate mystery has generated massive interest.
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Swede hit with 10 month jail sentence in Turkey
Society: 1 Jan 10
A Swedish citizen was sentenced to 10 month’s prison by a Turkish court on New Year’s Eve on charges of spreading Kurdish propaganda on behalf of a prohibited political party.
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Swedish school bans handshakes amid swine flu fears
Society: 19 Aug 09
In a bid to curb the spread of swine flu a school in Borlänge in central Sweden has forbidden teachers from shaking hands with their pupils.
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Around Sweden in 56 and a half days
Travel: 29 Jun 09
Desperately seeking Sweden: Christine Demsteader ponders a few literary journeys as she prepares for an epic trip around the country she has come to call home. She invites The Local’s readers to join her en route.
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The Local's Swedish summer festival guide
Lifestyle: 26 Jun 09
From heavy metal to jazz and from pop to classical, Sweden’s roster of summertime musical festivals has something to suit all tastes.
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What's on in Sweden: April 24 - 30
Lifestyle: 24 Apr 09
What's on in Sweden: International dance day & Salif Keita in Stockholm; English speaking theatre in Gothenburg; Depeche Mode tribute in Malmö.
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Naked Swedish crispbread dancers go global
Society: 21 Apr 09
Four young men from Sweden's industrial heartland have taken talent to new levels with a taste-defying video clip that has captured the imagination of a large international audience.
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Svartenbrandt remanded into custody for robbery
National: 12 Apr 09
Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, a 63-year-old with a long criminal history, was remanded into custody on Sunday on suspicion of the armed robbery of a Swedbank branch in Säter in central Sweden.
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Tough break for small-bladdered train passengers
Society: 4 Nov 08
Passengers on a train running between Borlänge and Gävle in central Sweden couldn’t believe their ears on Sunday afternoon when the conductor explained why the train’s toilets had been shut off.
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What’s on in Sweden: September 12 - 18
Lifestyle: 11 Sep 08
What’s on: Johnny Logan and American Football in Stockholm; Ukulele orchestra and psychobilly legends in Gothenburg; Cinema Bizarre and dance fusion in Malmö.
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The best of Way Out West: Day One
Lifestyle: 11 Aug 08
Stuart Roberts travels to Gothenburg for the second annual Way Out West Festival. Franz Ferdinand, Sonic Youth and Nick Cave are among the top acts on a fast and furious first day.
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One death in row house blaze
National: 6 Jun 08
A person has died in a violent fire that broke out in a row of houses in Borlänge, central Sweden, early on Friday morning.
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Winter's return causes confusion
National: 18 May 08
Heavy snow falls were seen in many parts of northern Sweden on Saturday as winter made a comeback.
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Swedish music's European tour
Lifestyle: 4 May 08
The summer is fast approaching, and with it Europe’s festival season. What better way to spend a couple of lazy months than checking out some of Sweden’s hottest acts as they wow audiences across the continent. David Bartram is your festival guide.
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Dalarna police admit to mistakes
National: 14 Apr 08
Police admitted they made a mistake by not following up on a tip they received about the man who confessed to killing 10-year-old Engla Höglund.
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Home town mourns Engla's murder
National: 14 Apr 08
Residents of Stjärnsund in Dalarna are grieving over the murder of 10-year-old Engla Höglund following a confession on Sunday by 42-year-old Anders Eklund, who was suspected last November in another unsolved murder.
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Little headway in missing girl investigation
National: 9 Apr 08
Suspicions against the truck driver arrested for kidnapping 10-year-old Engla Höglund remain weak, as police consider searching new areas.
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63-year-old held over remote-control bank heist
National: 1 Feb 08
A 63-year-old man has been remanded in custody in connection with a hi-tech heist worth "several hundred million kronor".
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Russian tourist bus in major crash
National: 3 Jan 08
A number of passengers have been injured in a crash between a Russian tourist bus and a local bus in Dalarna.
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Man beaten to death in Borlänge
National: 26 Dec 07
A man was beaten to death in Borlänge in the early hours of Boxing Day.
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Man stabbed to death in Borlänge
National: 8 Dec 07
A 21-year-old man in Borlänge was stabbed to death outside a fast food restaurant on Friday night.
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One dead in Borlänge blaze
National: 30 Oct 07
One person has died after a fire broke out in an old wooden house in Borlänge in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
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Police foil robbery in sychronized operation
National: 29 Oct 07
Police in Dalarna have arrested two men on suspicion of planning a major robbery. The men - aged 25 and 26 - were apprehended in a synchronized police operation at lunchtime on Monday.
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Airports threatened by subsidy cut
Business & Money: 3 Oct 07
Several Swedish airports could be under threat after a report suggested that they should not received state aid.
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Jail sentence for victim turned perpetrator
National: 3 Oct 07
A 25-year-old woman from Borlänge faces a year in jail after making the leap from fraud victim to internet fraudster.
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Swedish newspaper group for sale
Business & Money: 25 Sep 07
Brothers Lennart and Sten Bengtsson have announced that they are to sell the media company that has been in the family for 75 years.
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Controversial school slams education agency
Society: 18 Aug 07
A school where children decide what they do and when they do it has been criticised by the Swedish authorities. But the headmaster has hit back at inspectors who "lack the ability to understand advanced educational explanations".
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Shop workers strike called for April 5th
Politics: 26 Mar 07
The Commercial Employees Union has called for a complete stoppage at 94 workplaces around the country. 6,000 employees across the country will be called out of work.
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Prison doctor gave Viagra to rapist
Society: 1 Nov 06
A prison doctor has been issued a warning for prescribing large quantities of sedatives and Viagra to a sex offender who raped two women in the weeks after his release.
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Astoria sells cinemas to SF
Business & Money: 6 Oct 06
Crisis-hit Astoria Cinemas is closing down movie theatres in nine small Swedish towns, while selling a further three cinemas to rival SF Bio.
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World's largest egg laid in Sweden
National: 22 Sep 06
Swedish ostrich farmers Gunnar and Kerstin Sahlin are set to become the proud holders of the record for world's largest egg, after one of their birds laid the 2.5 kilo whopper.
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Swedish police shoot drunk teen
National: 1 Mar 06
An 18 year old man drunk on moonshine threatened to kill himself and his mother in their apartment in Borlänge early on Wednesday. Police were forced to shoot him in the leg before arresting him.
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Swedish clarinet legend dies
Lifestyle: 14 Feb 06
Swedish jazz legend Putte Wickman has died at the age of 81. Despite having never taken a lesson, he was one of the world's leading clarinet players - a status which few on the international jazz scene would contest.
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Two Swedish teenagers killed by Falun train
Smörgåsbord: 15 Dec 05
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Swedish film: quantity or quality?
Lifestyle: 15 Jul 04
The Swedish film industry banks on the 'Kurt Wallander' novels - they'll be churning out thirteen of them in the next two years. And operatic monkey business at Drottningholm Theatre unites critics.
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
The story of K Composite Magazine »
"I’m working on a couple long articles which will be posted here soon. While those are in the works, I thought I’d share this article and interview about my magazine, K Composite, which was recently published on the site Design-Milk.com. Enjoy! Scott Ritcher launched his now digitally glossy mag, K Composite, back when Macs were used..." READ »
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