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Bones and guts in military 'horror dungeon'

Society: 8 Feb 12
Two aspiring officers at a military training centre in western Sweden have been reprimanded after building a ”horror dungeon” with bones, faeces and animal guts meant to frighten younger trainees. READ »

Woman fined for crotch grab assault

National: 27 Jan 12
A scorned Swedish woman who got back at her ex-husband by hijacking his Facebook account to indicate he was gay and then later attacked him by grabbing his testicles and biting him has been convicted for the assault. READ »

Breastfeeding mum in Swedish car wreck

Society: 12 Jan 12
A woman who was breastfeeding her weeks-old infant while behind the wheel is under criminal suspicion after crashing into a truck on a motorway in western Sweden. READ »

Man gets prison after naked train sex attack

National: 7 Jan 12
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been sentenced to prison after he stripped down naked and assaulted passengers on a train in November, while under the influence of drugs. READ »

Naked man in 'pot-fuelled' train sex attack

Society: 23 Nov 11
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been detained after he allegedly smoked marijuana before stripping down naked on a train and demanding passengers have sex with him. READ »

Grenade launcher fired inside soldiers' barracks

National: 19 Nov 11
A Swedish military unit has come in for criticism after a number of safety violations were revealed, including a soldier being hit in the head by a grenade shell and a grenade launcher being fired inside the soldiers' own barracks. READ »

Volvo Cars to close Uddevalla plant

Business & Money: 3 Oct 11
Volvo Car Corporation is terminating production at their plant in Uddevalla, in western Sweden, when they take over sole ownership of the company in 2013, the company announced on Monday. READ »

Thieves use wheel loader in cash machine heist

Business & Money: 9 Sep 11
Thieves driving a wheel loader through the entrance of a supermarket early on Friday morning scooped a cash machine straight out of the wall before disappearing from the scene with their loot. READ »

Foreign family told they 'eat too much dough'

National: 24 Aug 11
A representative from the social services in western Sweden has been accused of criticising the eating habits and weight of a family of asylum seekers. READ »

Board raised pay while Saab stood still: report

Business & Money: 18 Aug 11
While the cash strapped carmaker Saab’s production lines stood still the board of directors from mother company Swedish Automobile had a pay increase, according to Swedish media reports. READ »

Swedish schools urged to utilise student English skills

Education: 24 May 11
Swedish schools fail to properly utilise students' English language skills, acquired through the consumption of film and music, according to a report by the Schools Inspectorate. READ »

Swedish teacher lands EU 'tongue stories' award

Education: 17 May 11
A elementary school teacher from Skövde in western Sweden is one 28 Europeans recognised by the EU in a competition to highlight language diversity. READ »

Russian backer secures Saab property funds

National: 18 Apr 11
Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov has agreed a deal with an independent European bank to handle payments to Swedish carmaker Saab with regard to the sale of its property holdings, his spokesperson has confirmed. READ »

School board defends tattooed teacher deemed 'too cool' for school

Education: 13 Apr 11
The schools board in Skövde in western Sweden has backed a local teacher after he was criticised by a local politician, who argued that his surfeit of tattoos and spiky hair set a bad example to students. READ »

Top marks for Stockholm School of Economics

Education: 23 Mar 11
Stockholm School of Economics has overtaken Karolinska Institutet in an annual ranking of Sweden's top 30 universities and colleges. READ »

Swedish 'cannibal' convicted of murder

National: 9 Mar 11
A 32-year-old Swedish man who decapitated his girlfriend and then ate parts of her body was convicted on Tuesday of murder. READ »

Swedish museum head in prison for bribes

Society: 26 Feb 11
A former museum head from Skövde in central Sweden has been sent to prison for accepting bribes. READ »

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. READ »

Swedish birds 'scared to death': veterinarian

Science & Technology: 5 Jan 11
A county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark. READ »

Refugee child denied care by Swedish hospital

National: 24 Nov 10
A hospital in central Sweden refused to perform an operation on a 16-year-old unaccompanied refugee boy because the doctor didn't think the hospital would be reimbursed for the procedure. READ »

One dead as snowstorms cause traffic havoc

National: 9 Nov 10
A young woman died in a car accident in western Sweden on Tuesday morning as snowfalls and strong winds hampered road conditions and caused widespread traffic problems. READ »

Sharks top Jackets in Stockholm NHL opener

Sport: 9 Oct 10
The National Hockey League's (NHL) San Jose Sharks and Columbus Blue Jackets opened their 2010-11 season in Stockholm on Friday night, with the Sharks edging the Jackets 3-2. READ »

Church calls for swear ban after gay sex rant

Society: 29 Jul 10
The Church of Sweden is being asked to introduce football-style penalties for swearing, after a priest used foul language at last year’s meeting of the church’s governing body. READ »

Swedes think Daniel will do good job: poll

National: 9 Jun 10
Seven out of 10 Swedes believe that Daniel Westling will do a 'good job' as a prince of Sweden, following his marriage next week to Crown Princess Victoria. READ »

Nighttime skier crashes into promenading elk

Society: 18 Mar 10
A cross-country skier crashed into an elk on Tuesday evening while out exercising by torchlight near Skövde in western Sweden. READ »

Guilty verdict for child rape teacher

National: 22 Jan 10
A male high school teacher in Skövde, south west Sweden, has been found guilty of a string of sex crimes with a pupil and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. READ »

Teacher charged with sex crimes against pupils

National: 20 Nov 09
A male high school teacher in Skövde, western Sweden, has been arrested and charged with a string of sexual offences including child rape. READ »

Chlamydia helps young men feel more 'manly': Swedish study

Society: 22 Aug 09
Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood, a new Swedish study shows. READ »

Teen convicted for murder of 86-year-old

National: 3 Aug 09
A 19-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for having beaten an 86-year-old man so severely that he died several weeks later. READ »

Thief steals caravan complete with sleeping owner

National: 21 Jun 09
A thief made off with a caravan in Skövde in southern Sweden on Saturday night. To his surprise he later found that the caravan's owner was asleep inside at the time. READ »

Two dead in Swedish air crash

National: 15 Jun 09
Two people have died after a small aircraft crashed on the runway shorty after takeoff at Midlanda airport in Sundsvall in northern Sweden on Monday morning. READ »

Man dies in fire in Falköping

National: 11 Apr 09
A man was found dead in a badly burned detached house in Falköping late on Friday evening, say police. READ »

Third man arrested after file sharing raid

National: 5 Apr 09
The police raid on two apartments in Skövde in southern Sweden on Thursday has led to the arrest of a third person on suspicion of breach of copyright legislation. READ »

Two Swedes arrested in file sharing raid

Science & Technology: 3 Apr 09
Two men have been arrested in Skövde in southern Sweden on suspicion of breaching copyright legislation. READ »

GM deadline puts pressure on Saab

Analysis & Opinion: 31 Mar 09
Washington's decision to hand General Motors a new deadline to reach viability and to demand it sack its chief executive could put more pressure on the company's beleaguered Swedish subsidiary Saab, analysts said on Tuesday. READ »

Arrest in death of woman found in ditch

National: 10 Feb 09
One person has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman found in a snowy ditch in Tibro in central Sweden on Sunday night. READ »

Dead woman discovered in ditch in central Sweden

National: 9 Feb 09
A woman was found dead Sunday evening in a ditch near her home east of Tibro in Västergötland in central Sweden. 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 »

Volvo plans 1,620 layoffs

Business & Money: 13 Jan 09
Volvo Group has given notice to 1,620 workers in Sweden, the company announced on Tuesday afternoon. READ »

Swedish quake 'strongest in two decades'

National: 17 Dec 08
The earthquake which rattled southern Sweden on Tuesday morning wasn’t as powerful as initially thought, according to new data about the tremor. READ »

Volvo's IT supplier to cut 350 jobs in Sweden

Business & Money: 18 Nov 08
Volvo IT, which provides its parent Volvo AB with IT services, announced on Monday it would be laying off 350 employees. READ »

Volvo to cut 900 jobs

Business & Money: 11 Nov 08
Volvo has announced that it is to cut 900 jobs from its Powertrain operations in Sweden. READ »

Two Danish soldiers shot in Sweden

National: 6 Nov 08
Two Danish soldiers have been injured in a shooting incident at a military training zone in western Sweden. READ »

Swedish train breaks speed record

Science & Technology: 14 Sep 08
The speed record for a train on a Swedish railway was broken on Saturday night. For the first time speeds in excess of 300 kilometres per hour were recorded in a test drive of a Regina train near Skövde. READ »

900 more jobs to go from Volvo Cars

Business & Money: 12 Sep 08
Volvo Cars announced on Friday it would be laying off an additional 900 employees. READ »

Cannabis found on Swedish military training area

National: 5 Sep 08
A group of Swedish soldiers made an unexpected discovery when they came across a group of suspicious looking plants during a training exercise in Skövde in western Sweden. READ »

Two men stabbed, one dead in Skövde

National: 17 Aug 08
Two separate stabbing incidents near Skövde in central Sweden left one man dead and the other with stomach injuries on Saturday evening. READ »

Man in custody for brutal slaying of Hjo woman

National: 29 Jul 08
A 25-year-old man suspected of having killed a woman in Hjo last week was remanded to custody on Monday, despite denying the accusations. READ »

Toddler found home alone with dead mother

National: 27 Jul 08
Police now believe the 22-year-old woman found dead in Hjo in western Sweden on Friday afternoon may have been killed on Wednesday, which means her three-year-old daughter was home alone with her murdered mum for almost 48 hours. READ »

Police: 'Murdered woman met suspected killer over the internet'

National: 26 Jul 08
A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 22-year-old woman found dead in an apartment in Hjo in western Sweden on Friday afternoon. Police report that the couple met over the internet. READ »

Man arrested for running over police officer

National: 14 Jul 08
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a traffic police officer near Mariestad in central Sweden on Sunday. READ »

Rape suspect soldier sacked

National: 18 Jun 08
Sweden's National Service Administration has dismissed a conscript suspected of raping his female colleague at a military base in Skövde, central Sweden. READ »

Apartment fire leaves two dead

National: 15 Apr 08
A man and a woman died in an apartment fire in the Södra Ryd area of Skövde in central Sweden on Tuesday morning. READ »

Delays plague Nordic Battlegroup

National: 31 Dec 07
Equipment shortages persist as the group's January 1st launch date approaches. READ »

Conscript dies after accidental shooting

National: 5 Dec 07
A Swedish army conscript has died after being accidentally shot in the back on Wednesday afternoon. READ »

Ice causes road accidents

National: 26 Oct 07
Icy roads in southern and western Sweden caused a number of accidents on Friday morning, as temperatures plunged below zero. READ »

Two die in plane crash

National: 24 Oct 07
Two men died when their microlight plane crashed outside Tidaholm, 150 km north-east of Gothenburg, on Tuesday. The victims are believed to be a flying instructor and his pupil. READ »

'Too fat to be a father'

Society: 8 Aug 07
Jan Karlsson from Tibro in western Sweden has been told by staff at an artificial insemination clinic that he is too fat to become a father. READ »

Stepfather appeals rape verdict

National: 5 Jul 07
A 40 year old man who was jailed for six years for having sex with his stepdaughter 200 times is appealing against the sentence - as is his victim and the prosecutor. READ »

Jesus born in Swedish taxi

Society: 6 Dec 06
A Swedish family got value for money when their helpful taxi driver doubled as a midwife and delivered them a new brother and son. "We will call him Jesus," said the father. READ »

Sixth Skövde nursery school burns

National: 10 Oct 06
Police suspect arsonists were responsible for a fire at a nursery school in Skövde on Monday night - the sixth fire at a Skövde pre-school since August. READ »

Arrests over pre-school arson attacks

National: 22 Sep 06
Three people have been arrested in Skövde over a spate of arson attacks on pre-schools in the town. At least one of those arrested was a teenage boy, according to reports. READ »

Skövde schools in arson mystery

National: 13 Sep 06
Another nursery school was set on fire in Skövde on Tuesday night. It is the fifth such incident in three weeks in the area. READ »

Second pre-school fire in Skövde

National: 10 Sep 06
A nursery school in Skövde was ravaged by fire on Sunday morning - for the second time in three weeks. Police suspect arson. READ »

Prisoner escapes during soccer game

National: 27 Jul 06
An inmate at an open prison in Mariefred suddenly ran off the pitch during a football match. A search for the man is underway. READ »

Train leaves 3-year old on platform

Society: 3 Jul 06
A train driver refused to stop when a family told him that their 3-year old son was left behind on the platform at Skövde station. The train staff have been reported to the police, who call the incident 'crazy'. READ »

Poker sites used in fraud scheme

National: 20 Apr 06
Nine Skaraborg residents have each lost an average of 10,000 kronor playing internet poker - despite the fact that not one of them has ever visited the poker sites. READ »

Death bus driver 'suspected of manslaughter'

National: 6 Feb 06
The driver of a bus that crashed in Arboga last month, killing nine people, is suspected of manslaughter, prosecutors say. The 62-year old was questioned by police in hospital on Friday. READ »

Eight dead in bus crash

Smörgåsbord: 27 Jan 06
At least eight people have died and over 40 people have been injured in a bus accident near Arboga, one of the worst ever to hit Sweden. Prime Minister Göran Persson says he is dismayed by the tragedy. READ »

24 found guilty in ecstasy trial

National: 11 Nov 05
A group of 24 young people from all over Sweden have been found guilty of involvement in a drugs network. The sentences range from fines to almost five years in prison - but the main man is still to be sentenced. READ »

Volvo to slash 1,500 jobs

Business & Money: 23 Aug 05
Around 1,500 hundred jobs are to go at Volvo Cars as the company tries to keep the profits flowing to parent company Ford. The biggest losses are likely to be in Gothenburg. READ »

Online declarers given another 24 hours

National: 3 May 05
The Swedish Tax Agency's campaign to boost the number of electronic declarations has generally been a success. But SEB bank's servers failed to cope with the last minute rush for electronic id's and a few thousand tax-payers have been given an extra day to get their declarations in. READ »

Volvo secures South Korea engine deal

Business & Money: 10 Mar 05
South Korean industrial giant Hyundai has ordered more than 300 engines from Volvo's engine plant in Skövde. READ »

Senior soldier arrested for "woman abuse"

National: 9 Mar 05
One of Sweden's highest-ranking military officers has been taken into custody on suspicion of "serious violation of a woman's integrity". But police, prosecutors and the army are - for now - refusing to name the man. READ »

Depression "behind one in three physical ailments"

Science & Technology: 27 Jan 05
A Swedish professor suggests that obesity could be a direct result of depression. And if there's some other reason behind your increasing waistline a new stomach-reducing corset may be the answer. READ »


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