Linköping

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What's On in Sweden: March 19th - 25th

Lifestyle: 17 Mar 10
What’s on in Sweden: Ship shape tour in Stockholm, Cameroonian Jazz in Gothenburg and a spin on Cinderella in Malmö. Plus English comedy in Linköping. READ »

Student expresses regret over massacre threat

National: 16 Mar 10
A 33-year-old man arrested in connection with a massacre threat at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Monday has expressed "deep regret" over his actions, as a wave of copycat threats spread across the country. READ »

The animal horror picture show

Lifestyle: 2 Mar 10
If you go down to the woods today, you'll probably encounter nothing more dangerous than a mushroom that's lost it's magic or bombardment from an avian bottom. But the fear of marauding beasts still haunts the Swedish psyche, as Ben Kersley discovers. READ »

Deadly snow storm heading for Sweden

National: 1 Mar 10
Storm Xynthia, which has claimed several lives in Portugal, Spain and France, will hit southern areas of Sweden on Monday - although significantly weaker in force. READ »

Saab dealers: we'll help pay for Spyker deal

Business & Money: 5 Feb 10
Swedish Saab dealers have said they are willing to stump up millions of kronor to help Dutch sportscar maker Spyker secure its purchase of Saab Automobile. READ »

Snow removal worker killed by train

National: 1 Feb 10
A person employed to clear snow off the tracks was killed on Monday morning after being hit by an X2000 high speed train in central Sweden. READ »

Record cold snap to stay

Science & Technology: 31 Jan 10
The Swedish Met Office (SMHI) has issued a weather warning for mountainous northern areas and says extreme cold and snowy weather conditions will continue across the country next week. READ »

No one safe from vomiting bug: study

National: 24 Jan 10
A new study from Linköping University suggests the so-called winter vomiting bug is far more infectious than previously thought. READ »

Girl fined for Sweden Democrat egg attack

Society: 19 Jan 10
A 17-year old girl was convicted on Tuesday for an egg attack on the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrat party, Jimmie Åkesson, during a rally by the party in Linköping in central Sweden last May. READ »

Ponies replace yachts in wintertime Västervik

Travel: 14 Jan 10
There's only one way to see the picturesque town of Västervik during the winter months - and that's from the back of an Icelandic pony. READ »

Swedish teen grows back face after pill horror

Society: 13 Jan 10
A Swedish teen who saw much of her skin blister away due to a rare allergic reaction to an over the counter painkiller has resumed a normal life following a long and difficult recovery. READ »

Professor trashes Saab suitor Spyker

Business & Money: 11 Dec 09
Dutch luxury sports carmaker Spyker, which has expressed its interest in buying Saab Automobile, is an even less reliable potential suitor than Koenigsegg, claims a professor in industrial organization. READ »

Five festive pointers for the perfect Swedish Christmas

Lifestyle: 8 Dec 09
It’s that time of year when people are starting to flippantly use the C-word. Or Jul as it is known in Sweden. But what are the secret ingredients to the perfect Swedish Christmas? Ben Kersley investigates. READ »

'It's not the fart that kills...'

Lifestyle: 9 Nov 09
As a bilingual video has the internet public in stitches, The Local's Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius catches up with the men behind the merging of comedy and the Swedish language. READ »

Nurses's moist wipe helps drunken driver escape conviction

Society: 21 Oct 09
A 36-year-old Swedish man who confessed to driving while drunk has been acquitted because of uncertainty caused by the way a nurse took a blood sample. READ »

Two die of legal drug overdose

National: 14 Oct 09
Two young men in Linköping in south-east Sweden have died after overdosing on the psychoactive drug methedrone, a substance that is not yet illegal in Sweden and can be bought on the internet. READ »

Swedish secret agent's 15th century castle up for auction

Society: 13 Oct 09
A 15th century castle in southern Sweden belonging to a man who once supplied secret Russian technology to the Swedish military, is set to go up for auction in November. READ »

Sweden to replace top legal official

National: 8 Oct 09
Sweden’s highest legal official, Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz, is stepping down from his post and will be replaced by supreme court justice Anna Skarhed, the government announced on Thursday. READ »

Pre-teen girl reports rape at Swedish school

National: 2 Oct 09
A ten-year-old girl has reported that she was raped by three boys aged 12-13-years-old on her lunch break at a school in Linköping in central Sweden. READ »

What's on in Sweden: October 2 - 8

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 09
What's on in Sweden: International poetry festival & American football in Stockholm; International art biennial & World music festival in Gothenburg; Kings of Convenience (NO) in Malmö/Lund. READ »

Swedish integration policies 'a failure'

Politics: 23 Sep 09
Immigrants to Sweden continue to flock to a few, high-immigrant concentration areas, new statistics show, prompting one politician to conclude the country's integration politics have failed. READ »

HIV man strikes again: unprotected sex with 15-year-old

National: 19 Sep 09
A 20 year-old man with HIV from Linköping has been remanded in custody for having unprotected sex with a 15-year-old girl. The man has previously been imprisoned for having intercourse with seven woman who were not aware he was infected. READ »

Sweden score three in dream Euro 2009 opener

Sport: 26 Aug 09
Sweden's women stamped their intentions on Euro 2009 in Finland with an impressive 3-0 win over Russia in their group C opener. READ »

Prison for 'Stockholm Syndrome' accomplice

National: 31 Jul 09
One of Sweden’s most notorious criminals, 62-year-old Clark Olofsson, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for his involvement in a drug smuggling syndicate. READ »

Docs tell 83-year-old Swede she's 'too old' for treatment

Science & Technology: 24 Jul 09
An 83-year-old Swedish woman was forced to pay for back surgery out of her own pocket after doctors at her local public hospital told her she was too old for the treatment. READ »

Iranians barred from Swedish universities

Science & Technology: 21 Jul 09
Iranian nationals have been banned from Swedish university programmes with ties to nuclear and missile technologies following a warning from the country’s security service Säpo. READ »

Broken bones heal faster with medicine: study

Science & Technology: 20 Jul 09
A broken bone can heal faster if the patient is given medicine, a new study from Linköping University in central Sweden shows. READ »

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. READ »

Saab Bofors to shed 370 white collar workers

Business & Money: 2 Jun 09
Swedish defence company Saab announced plans on Tuesday to lay off 370 employees at four different plants located around the country. READ »

20-year-old confesses to murder

National: 30 May 09
The 20-year-old arrested for the murder in Linköping of a 26-year-old mother of a small child confessed to the killing on Friday evening, according to several media sources. He had earlier denied the charge. READ »

Far-right leader egged at rowdy election rally

Politics: 20 May 09
Jimmie Åkesson, the head of the far-right Sweden Democrats, literally ended up with egg on his face during an election rally in Linköping in central Sweden on Wednesday. READ »

Man convicted in teen suicide rape case

National: 18 May 09
A 42-year-old man charged with sex offences against a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide prior to the trial was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Jönköping court on Monday. READ »

Seven years for car-ride rape of Swedish teens

National: 15 May 09
A 30-year-old man who repeatedly raped two 17-year-old girls during a frightful 16-hour car ride through southern Sweden was sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison. READ »

Universities clamp down on internet piracy

Education: 15 May 09
Swedish universities have begun cutting off internet access for students suspected of illegal file sharing, prompting criticism from both student groups and file sharing advocates. READ »

Swedish air force captain demands fireproof bras

Society: 10 May 09
The commander of the Swedish helicopter fleet in Linköping, group captain Micael Bydén, has demanded that his female crew members be equipped with fireproof brassieres. READ »

A tattoo too far

Lifestyle: 30 Apr 09
Ben Kersley admires some naked bodies (artistically) and gets a permanent souvenir of Sweden at the Swedish Tattoo Fair in Norrköping. READ »

What's your favourite Swedish dialect?

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Apr 09
The Local's regular panel grapples with Sweden's many dialects and tries to decide whether they should be classified as throat diseases or things of poetic beauty. READ »

Lund wins bid to host new particle accelerator

Science & Technology: 27 Apr 09
The university town of Lund in southern Sweden is set to become the site of a new particle accelerator, Max IV, Lund University announced on Monday. READ »

Västervik: Building boats for half a millennium

Travel: 24 Apr 09
Sponsored article: The beautiful coastal town of Västervik once built warships for King Gustav I. These days luxury yachts are more in evidence, writes Jennifer Heape. READ »

Peace activists jailed over failed Saab sabotage

Politics: 21 Apr 09
Three peace activists were sentenced to prison and fined on Tuesday for attempting to destroy three Saab Gripen fighter planes last month. READ »

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. READ »

Notorious criminal arrested for robbery

National: 9 Apr 09
Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, a 63-year-old with a long criminal history, is one of two individuals arrested for the armed robbery of a Swedbank branch in Säter in central Sweden, according to the police in western Sweden. READ »

Two teenage girls raped in harrowing car ride

National: 7 Apr 09
Two 17-year-old girls were raped and assaulted during a harrowing 16 hour car journey in southern Sweden. A 30-year-old man has been charged with aggravated rape. READ »

Asylum seeker sets himself alight

National: 4 Apr 09
A man who had his application for asylum rejected has sustained serious injuries after setting himself alight in a Migration Board centre in Alvesta in central Sweden. READ »

Gang leader studies fraud law in prison

Society: 1 Apr 09
While imprisoned for serious drugs offences, Andreas Olsson, the leader of the Bandidos organized crime gang in Stockholm, has been studying courses in financial criminal law at the taxpayer's expense. READ »

Swedish police struggle to stop pre-teen drug dealers

National: 30 Mar 09
Police in Linköping in central Sweden have picked up a 12-year-old boy for trying to sell hashish on school grounds. READ »

Ryanair forced to pay damages in Sweden

Business & Money: 23 Mar 09
Low-cost airline Ryanair has been ordered by a Swedish court to compensate a couple from Linköping for costs incurred returning home after their flight from Brussels was canceled at the last minute. READ »

Police caught by speed cameras: 'All equal before the law'

National: 21 Mar 09
Police and other emergency vehicles regularly exceed speed limits on Sweden's roads. Many are caught on camera. READ »

Swedish study links stress to childhood obesity

Science & Technology: 13 Mar 09
A third of all Swedish eight-year-olds are unhappy with their bodies, according to new Swedish research linking family stress and obesity among children. READ »

Mother arrested for murder of infant son

National: 8 Mar 09
A woman in Linköping in southern Sweden has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of her two-year-old son. The boy was found lifeless in his home by his father. READ »

Ryanair to start bus route in Sweden: source

Travel: 6 Mar 09
Ryanair has plans to compete for routes on the ground in Sweden, according to the head of the Flygbussarna coach service. READ »

'World of Warcraft is as addictive as cocaine': report

Science & Technology: 26 Feb 09
The computer game World of Warcraft is the most dangerous game on the market with a high risk of addiction, according to a new report from a Swedish youth organisation. READ »

Sweden's colleges catching more cheats

Education: 18 Feb 09
The number of students expelled from Sweden’s colleges and universities for cheating increased by nearly 30 percent last year, according to a recent study. READ »

One in six Swedish children obese: study

Science & Technology: 10 Feb 09
One out of six five-year-olds in Sweden is overweight, primarily because of a lack of exercise, a new study has found. READ »

Military offers proposal on defence cuts

Politics: 30 Jan 09
Sweden’s top military commander on Friday handed over to the government a lengthy report detailing a range of proposed reductions to the country’s armed forces. READ »

Church furor over 'racist' religious group

Society: 22 Jan 09
The Church of Sweden on Thursday cited lax oversight as the reason why a conservative religious group aiming to convert Sweden to Catholicism and with leaders who deny the Holocaust was given permission to hold meetings in Swedish churches. READ »

Teen's brazen spree of crimes frustrates Linköping police

National: 16 Jan 09
A 14-year-old in Linköping in central Sweden suspected in dozens of crimes continues to evade authorities in part because he is too young to be investigated by police. READ »

New police taskforces to tackle organized crime

National: 15 Jan 09
In an effort to combat the spread of organized crime in Sweden, police plan to create nine nationally-led taskforces to fight criminal gangs, drug smugglers, and other gang-related criminals. READ »

Stockholm club and concert tips: Saturday, Jan 17

Lifestyle: 14 Jan 09
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips. READ »

Failed party trick lands Swedish man in burn unit

Society: 27 Dec 08
A Swedish man’s attempt to impress his girlfriend on Friday night backfired, putting him in the hospital with serious burn injuries and facing allegations of endangering the public. READ »

What's on in Sweden: December 26 - January 1

Lifestyle: 26 Dec 08
What's on in Sweden: December 26th - January 1st. Vaudeville New Year and Miss Li in Stockholm; Nefertiti New Year and Cinderella in Gothenburg; Night Beat New Year and Led Zepellin in Malmö. READ »

Young arsonists set fire to hospital

National: 22 Dec 08
Police have questioned a number of boys suspected of setting at least two fires inside Linköping University Hospital in central Sweden on Sunday night. READ »

Swedish docs: thumbs up for tinned skin

Science & Technology: 28 Nov 08
Doctors are predicting that spray-on skin cells will be used as a common form of sore treatment in the Swedish healthcare system within the coming years. READ »

Swedish boy collapses after 20-hour World of Warcraft binge

Science & Technology: 17 Nov 08
A 15-year-old boy from western Sweden collapsed and went into convulsions on Sunday afternoon after playing the World of Warcraft computer game for 20 hours straight. READ »

What are your survival tips for the Swedish winter?

Analysis & Opinion: 12 Nov 08
Every week a panel of readers will give their views on the state of play in Sweden. This week: woolly undies and trips to Spain are among the suggestions for getting through the winter. READ »

US agents helped unmask Swedish credit card swindler

National: 24 Oct 08
Assistance from the US Secret Service led to the indictment on Thursday of a Swedish man suspected of involvement in the ShadowCrew cybercrime network. READ »

The Panel: Tiffany Hoffman

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 08
Get acquainted with the members of our regular readers panel. READ »

Sweden sees heart attack fatality drop by half

Science & Technology: 18 Sep 08
Deaths from heart attacks in Sweden have been cut in half in the last 13 years, according to a new report. READ »

German teenagers hurt in Linköping coach crash

National: 28 Jul 08
A tourist coach carrying 25 German passengers vaulted and crashed into a ditch near Linköping at lunchtime on Monday. Nine adolescents were taken to hospital. READ »

Swede cracks the secrets of intuition

Science & Technology: 23 Jul 08
A learning expert at Linköping University in central Sweden has come up with an explanation for why some people seem to have the ability to act without thinking. READ »

Power outage halts main Swedish rail line

National: 17 Jul 08
Trains operating on the main Stockholm-Malmö route were held up on Thursday due to damage to an overhead power line near Linköping. The disruption is set to continue until 8pm. READ »

Woman fined for playing car stereo at full blast

National: 17 Jun 08
A 21-year-old woman has been fined 800 kronor ($132) for driving through Linköping city centre with her car stereo on max in the small hours. READ »

Handcuffed lovers freed by police

Society: 15 Jun 08
Police in Linköping were given a delicate task on Saturday night as they were called in to help free a loving couple from their handcuffs. READ »

Key nuke evidence stuck in the mail

National: 28 May 08
Police investigating last week's security incident at the Oskarshamn nuclear power are at odds over a decision to send the key piece of evidence by regular mail. READ »

Swedish Elks travel to Oz

Lifestyle: 26 May 08
Most Swedes will be bemused to learn they have a national Australian Football team. Nic Townsend meets the Swedish Elks before they travel to Melbourne for the International Cup. READ »

Airbag thieves strike on cue

National: 22 May 08
Thieves in the south east of Sweden acted on Wednesday exactly as police had predicted a day earlier -- they entered a car dealership and stole a number of airbags. READ »

Dog fatally attacked on board high speed train

National: 21 May 08
A woman was forced to carry the body of her lap dog wrapped in a blanket after the animal was killed by a pit bull while riding on a high speed train. READ »

'I must have looked threatening in my underpants'

National: 15 May 08
A burglar in Linköping thought he was in luck when he spotted an open door on a balcony leading to a 79-year-old woman's apartment - but that was before he ran into her well-built son. READ »

Man sets new Swedish drunk driving record

Society: 15 May 08
A 22-year-old from Varberg in western Sweden may have arranged his own sad entry in the record books. READ »

Conviction in Swedish file sharing case

National: 5 May 08
A 31-year-old man at the heart of Sweden’s largest file sharing case to date was convicted in Linköping District Court on Monday. READ »

National Investigators interrogate missing girl suspect

National: 13 Apr 08
The 42-year-old man suspected of abducting 10-year-old Engla Höglund will be interrogated by officers from the National Investigation Department while members of the National Home Guard continued searching for the missing girl. READ »