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Hässleholm

The following articles have been tagged with "Hässleholm":

Storm 'Berit' leaves 80,000 without power

National: 28 Nov 11
Some 80,000 households remained without electricity in southern Sweden on Monday morning in the wake of the weekend's storm, while rail and air traffic continued to suffer disruption. READ »

Elk totals police car, sends officers to hospital

Society: 28 Aug 11
Two police officers were taken to hospital in Skåne in southern Sweden on Saturday after their squad car collided with an elk. READ »

Man climbed altar and preached own faith

Society: 12 Apr 11
In the middle of Sunday service a man jumped up on the altar in a Hässleholm church in southern Sweden and began preaching his own faith in English. READ »

Man stabbed while testing knife-proof vest

Society: 27 Feb 11
A test of a knife-proof vest by two drunken men at a party in southern Sweden late Saturday afternoon didn't go according to plan. READ »

Power cut as storms batter southern Sweden

Science & Technology: 8 Feb 11
Over 35,000 people were left without power on Monday night as storm winds swept across southern Sweden, leaving widespread traffic problems due to fallen trees and debris. READ »

Swede, 92, tricked into giving away home

Society: 15 Jan 11
An elderly married couple in southern Sweden has been charged under suspicion of tricking a 92-year-old neighbour with dementia into giving them his home and estate. READ »

Christmas transport situation worsens

National: 23 Dec 10
Train traffic on southbound lines out of Stockholm came to a complete halt on Thursday afternoon, while many roads were impassable. READ »

Swede claims two Oscars

National: 8 Mar 10
Swedish sound technician Paul Ottosson claimed two Oscars at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony - for work with the evening's big winner Hurt Locker. READ »

Convicted double murderer found dead

National: 11 Jan 10
Ulf Olsson, who had been in court-ordered psychiatric care since his 2004 conviction for two murders, was found dead early on Sunday morning shortly after blogging about his desire to kill himself. READ »

Healthy pupil forced to endure special school

Education: 12 Aug 09
A pupil in Hässleholm in southern Sweden spent seven years in a special school despite not having an intellectual disability. The pupil's parents tried to get their son moved to a regular school but were refused. READ »

Meat thieves left cow slaughtered in a field

National: 28 May 09
Authorities in southern Sweden are investigating a macabre theft involving a dead cow and nearly 200 kilogrammes of missing meat. READ »

Immigrants key to new housing law's success

National: 19 May 09
Recent legislative changes intended to allow full apartment ownership in Sweden have not had as popular a response as anticipated, but immigrants could be the answer, said Agneta Ericsson of the National Land Survey of Sweden (Lantmäteriet) on Tuesday. READ »

Rare owl convalescing in southern Sweden

Science & Technology: 26 Apr 09
A Lapland Owl was found injured in a ditch in southern Sweden in March. The species is very rare in these parts and the bird is now convalescing after receiving hospital treatment. READ »

'Frozen' truck driver trapped in industrial oven

Society: 16 Mar 09
An attempt by a truck driver with a chill to warm himself in an industrial oven has prompted a reaction from Sweden’s work safety agency. READ »

How hard is Swedish to learn?

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Nov 08
Learning Swedish can be a tricky business for even the most nimble-tongued of linguists. This week we get the views of our readers’ panel on how best to deal with the intimidating dots and circles. READ »

'Fru Gårman' gets ready to cross Swedish streets

Society: 30 Sep 08
The Swedish Road Administration (Vägverket) on Monday revealed the final design for its new, more gender-sensitive pedestrian crossing signs. READ »

Beginner's luck for salmon fisherman

National: 28 Sep 08
Ivrfan Hadzahmetovic from southern Sweden couldn't believe his luck on Friday when he went salmon fishing for the first time. He hooked a fish weighing some 14.2 kilograms - the third largest ever from the Lagan river in Laholm. READ »

Cannabis growers face five years in jail

Society: 22 Sep 08
Two men suspected of involvement in a major cannabis-growing operation in southern Sweden were sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for serious narcotics offences. READ »

'Outlaw tattoos for anyone under eighteen'

Society: 4 Sep 08
Tattoo artists in Sweden are calling for a law to prohibit minors from getting a tattoo. READ »

Trains halted by fallen trees

National: 5 Aug 08
Rail traffic has ground to a halt in parts of Sweden as a result of Monday night's storm. READ »

Female pedestrians get road sign recognition

Society: 30 Apr 08
Sweden's government has paved the way for the development of road signs at pedestrian crossings that portray women rather than just men. READ »

Thousands without power in southern Sweden

National: 22 Mar 08
Heavy snow falls have left thousands without power in southern Sweden on Saturday morning. READ »

Pentecostalist pastor bans transvestite

Society: 5 Mar 08
A 58-year-old transvestite from southern Sweden has been told that he is not welcome to hold a planned lecture at a local Pentecostalist church hall. READ »

Clean up starts after storm

National: 23 Feb 08
Storms over the southern part of Sweden have left 50,000 households without electricity, 19,000 without telephone and 40 roads blocked. READ »

Female road sign rejected

Society: 15 Dec 07
A local authority which wants to erect road signs featuring female characters in the interests of gender equality has had its initiative vetoed by national authorities. READ »

Appeal court rejects girl's rape claim

Society: 28 Jul 07
A man in his fifties who was jailed for five years for rape and assault has been freed after the appeal court decided the victim, an 11-year-old girl, was not credible. READ »

DSB wins bid to operate Öresund trains

Business & Money: 27 Jun 07
Danish rail company DSB has fought off opposition from Deutsche Bahn, Arriva and SJ to earn the right to operate the rail service between Sweden and Denmark. READ »

Man gets sick benefits for heavy metal addiction

Society: 19 Jun 07
A job centre in southern Sweden has agreed to pay sickness benefits to a 42-year-old man with a heavy metal lifestyle. Roger Tullgren tells The Local of his ten-year struggle to have his heavy metal addiction classified as a disability. READ »

Police solve mystery of abandoned car

National: 15 Feb 07
Police have located the owner of a car found abandoned and blood-stained near the southern town of Hässleholm early on Thursday morning. READ »

Blood found in abandoned car

National: 15 Feb 07
Police in southern Sweden are searching for the owner of an abandoned car. The engine was left running and there was blood inside the vehicle. READ »

Storms batter Sweden - warnings of worse to come

National: 13 Jan 07
Over 24,000 households were suffering power cuts and roads and rail lines were blocked by trees after storms on Friday night. Weather forecasters warn that winds on Saturday night could reach hurricane force. READ »

Bus crash injures ten

National: 9 Oct 06
A bus in southern Sweden turned over on Monday at lunchtime, injuring around ten people, most of whom were schoolchildren. READ »

Up to 60 people living off Skåne sex trade

Society: 9 Oct 06
Police in Skåne believe that between 50 and 60 people in the region are profiting from running the trade in foreign sex slaves. READ »

Loophole allows foreign criminals to return

National: 2 Oct 06
People deported from Sweden after being convicted of crimes can return to the country without fear of arrest. A newly discovered loophole in the law is to blame. READ »

76-year old siege man sentenced

National: 26 Sep 06
A 76-year old man who opened fire indiscriminately with a shotgun from his house in Hässleholm in July has been sentenced to institutional psychiatric care. READ »

Skåne floods cause chaos

National: 2 Aug 06
Parts of southern Sweden have been hit by flooding after torrential downpours overnight. Worst hit was Trelleborg, where a number of garages and cellars were flooded. READ »

Sony Ericsson takes over mobile plant

Business & Money: 16 Jun 06
A closure-threatened Ericsson facility in Hässleholm producing software for mobile phones has been taken over by Sony Ericsson. READ »

Man dies as X 2000 hits car

National: 20 May 06
A man has died after his car collided with an X 2000 train at an unmanned level crossing outside Hässleholm on Saturday morning. READ »

Skåne shooting leaves man seriously injured

National: 2 Apr 06
A 28 year old man was shot just after 6.30am on Sunday in central Hässleholm. But neither he nor a man who has been arrested are being very cooperative, say police. READ »

20 witches wanted in southern Sweden

National: 16 Sep 05
If you have the ability to see into the future and can tell people's fortunes, you could be in luck - a company in Skåne is looking for 20 witches to help people with their problems. But then you probably already knew that. READ »

Escaped killer caught in Gothenburg

National: 22 Mar 05
A dangerous criminal has been caught after escaping a psychiatric ward on Monday morning but police are now searching for another psychiatric patient serving time for murder. It's a double-punch to the Swedish justice system, adding to an embarrassing record of escapes in the last twelve months. READ »

The hunter becomes the hunted

Smörgåsbord: 13 Sep 04
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12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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