The following articles have been tagged with "Sandviken":
Sport: 18 Mar 13
Hammarby cruised to a victory in Sweden's bandy final against Sandviken on Sunday, with a record crowd storming the ice in celebration before the end of the game at Stockholm's Friends Arena.
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Society: 28 Dec 12
Finnish will be an optional language in preschools and old people's homes in eight more Swedish cities, as the government extends the rights of minority language speakers across the country.
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Science & Technology: 13 Nov 12
Parents of a 16-year-old girl taken to hospital after a car crash in central Sweden were shocked at having to find out about the incident through Facebook.
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Society: 9 Aug 12
A man in central Sweden has been warned by authorities on two occasions for masturbating naked on his balcony, a fact that is making local mothers demand his eviction.
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Society: 7 Jul 12
The daughter of an elderly man suffering from dementia has reported his geriatric home for maltreatment upon learning that he was forced to pull out all his teeth due to poor dental hygiene and had un-clipped nails growing into his skin.
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National: 27 Apr 12
The mounting mosquito problems in the Dalälven region, in central Sweden, have resulted in a governmental plan to use helicopters to bomb the blood-thirsty insects to death before the summer season commences.
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National: 4 Feb 12
The E4 motorway was closed between Gävle and Söderhamn in northern Sweden on Friday afternoon after over 50 accidents were recorded in the icy conditions.
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National: 4 Nov 11
In a case that has caused huge reactions across Sweden, the woman who reported her sister and sister's husband to social services for allegedly sexually abusing their daughters has told her version of events.
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National: 30 Oct 11
The recent payday, Halloween, and a concert by hip hop star 50 Cent proved to be a recipe for an extra messy weekend for police around Sweden.
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National: 5 Sep 11
Two young people died when their car hit a train in Horndal in Dalarna in central Sweden on Sunday evening.
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Business & Money: 31 Jan 11
Sweden's Mackmyra Svensk Whisky has announced its plans to list on the stock market later this year, adding that it is now looking for a CFO to help accomplish the task.
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National: 16 Jan 11
Freezing conditions in northern Sweden and flooding in the south caused traffic chaos across the country on Sunday.
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Science & Technology: 5 Nov 10
A dietary supplement derived from freezedried fermented herring poses health risks for children as was as for young and pregnant women, Sweden’s National Food Administration has warned.
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Society: 8 Feb 10
Saturday's Melodifestivalen heat was watched by almost three million Swedes as Hollywood actor Dolph Lundgren did his bit to ensure that Eurovision fever gripped the country once again.
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National: 24 Nov 09
Prosecutors are looking into what role the popular online adventure game World of Warcraft may have played in the weekend death of a woman in a Stockholm suburb.
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National: 5 Jul 09
Swedish police suspect that a three-year-old girl was abducted and raped after disappearing from a playground in Sandviken in central Sweden last week.
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National: 9 Apr 09
The Swedish administrative court of appeals has granted a 28-year-old Sandviken transsexual the right to be called Immanuel, overturning a decision by the Swedish Tax Agency that the male moniker was unsuitable for a woman.
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Science & Technology: 24 Feb 09
Elevated levels of cyanide in the water near Sandviken in eastern Sweden caused toolmaker Sandvik to warn its employees not to drink the water on Monday.
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National: 31 Dec 08
Two car thieves took an enforced dip in freezing waters on Tuesday as thin ice put an end to their joyride on a frozen lake in central Sweden.
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Business & Money: 20 Nov 08
The Sandvik engineering group announced on Thursday it would be laying off more than 1,000 employees in Sweden.
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National: 18 Jul 08
Court documents released in connection with murder charges filed against Anders Eklund reveal in startling detail how the 42-year-old truck driver killed 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund.
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National: 18 Jul 08
Murder charges have been filed against 42-year-old Anders Eklund, the truck driver accused of killing 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Högland in April.
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National: 2 May 08
Two men received life threatening stab wounds following a confrontation in the central Swedish town of Sandviken late on Thursday night.
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National: 19 Apr 08
Anders Eklund, the man who has confessed to the murders of 10-year-old Engla Juncosa and 31-year-old Pernilla Hellgren was remanded into custody on Friday.
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National: 15 Apr 08
During further questioning on Monday, murderer Anders Eklund claimed the killing of 10-year-old Engla Höglund was an accident.
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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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National: 1 Dec 07
A Swedish municipality paid the Outlaws biker gang 200,000 kronor to move out of the region, it has emerged.
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National: 29 Nov 07
A legal technical error has led to two men being cleared of the brutal murder of a 35-year-old daycare teacher.
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Society: 25 Nov 07
An old people's home near Sandvik in northern Sweden is the scene of a serious outbreak of skin disease scabies.
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National: 21 Sep 07
Two men and a woman have been charged in connection with the brutal murder last year of a 35-year-old daycare teacher. The woman was hit in the head with an axe and drowned in a bog.
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National: 10 May 07
Two leaders of a gang of eight girls face criminal charges for their part in a vicious attack on a 14-year-old girl.
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Society: 1 May 07
Sweden's Valborg, or Walpurgis, celebrations lived up to expectations on Monday night with disorder and drunkenness reported across the country.
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National: 23 Mar 07
"Cleaning is not something for nice white girls," according to a teacher from Sandviken in eastern Sweden. On Thursday she received a formal warning.
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Sport: 12 Mar 07
Larsson returns, Zlatan scores, the ice hockey season reaches a crucial stage, and Hammarby makes the final in bandy (whatever that is).
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Smörgåsbord: 7 Feb 06
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Smörgåsbord: 7 Feb 06
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 06
While avoiding a farting electrician who is helping to renovate his apartment, our correspondent makes an extraordinary discovery: two love letters more than 70 years old.
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National: 23 Jan 06
Three people died and two are missing after several serious snowmobile accidents on Sunday.
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