The following articles have been tagged with "Kustbevakningen":
National: 23 Feb 13
Customs officers in Skåne, south Sweden, are deliberately slowing down their work in protest against a shrinking workforce, leading to a drop in drug seizures as fewer cars are stopped.
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Society: 1 Dec 12
A former employee at the Swedish coastguard has been sentenced to probation after a drunken joke, involving a colleague, a soiled diaper, and a false report of an attempt to smuggle drugs into the country, turned sour.
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National: 25 Sep 11
Clean-up work following the oil spill off Sweden's west coast was helped by good weather conditions, and on Saturday evening roughly 35 tonnes of oil had been taken out of the water.
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National: 18 Sep 11
The clean-up operation of the oil spill on Sweden's west coast continued on Sunday with more than 110 cubic metres removed so far, in what has been described as the largest spills to affect Sweden in years.
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Science & Technology: 19 Feb 11
The Swedish and Norwegian coast guard continued work to clean up the oil spill caused by a grounded Icelandic vessel just north of the Swedish border on Thursday, reporting that weather conditions remained favourable.
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Science & Technology: 18 Feb 11
Oil leaking from a vessel which ran aground off Norway on Thursday evening is threatening the Kosterhavet national park off the west coast of Sweden.
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National: 12 Jul 05
Sweden's been basking for the last two weeks in gloriously hot and sunny weather. Fantastic! Well, as always seems to be the case, it comes at a price: blankets of toxic algae in the east, forest fires in the west and withered crops in the south.
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