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'The Office' breeds with Swedish sitcom in world's first 'spin-make'

Lifestyle: 7 Feb 12
As Swedes get set to watch the premiere of the Swedish version of the hit TV sitcom “The Office”, The Local's Oliver Gee learns how producers took an innovative approach to ensure the show's humour wasn't lost in translation. READ »

Elvis' Swedish 'daughter' sues Presley estate

Society: 1 Dec 11
A Swedish woman who has long claimed that she is the rightful daughter of deceased US crooner Elvis Presley has sued the singer's estate for $130 million. READ »

This food may not be local, but it sure is good

Lifestyle: 7 Oct 11
Looking to break out of the meat+potato+brown sauce rut of typical Swedish cuisine? Contributor Gwen Ramsey offers some tips on where to authentic ethnic cuisine in the Swedish capital. READ »

Lace 'em up: Sweden’s five best hiking trails

Travel: 9 Jun 11
As the warm summer weather beckons, contributor Alec Forss offers up a list of some of Sweden's best hiking trails. READ »

Stockholm suburb claims top spot in business-friendliness ranking

Business & Money: 3 May 11
The north Stockholm suburb of Solna has been named the most business-friendly municipality in Sweden, according to a new ranking. READ »

Police hunt teen gang after school stabbing

National: 26 Apr 11
Swedish police are hunting a gang of teenage boys after a fight at a school in northern Stockholm on Tuesday left a teenage boy in hospital nursing stab wounds. READ »

Traffic problems persist as snowfalls continue

Science & Technology: 11 Feb 11
Sweden's Transport Administration has advised drivers in Stockholm to leave their cars at home as the continuing heavy snowfalls and winds leave much of the region at a standstill and commuters stranded. READ »

The Stockholm Players' multicultural look at love

Lifestyle: 19 Nov 10
With a new production by the Stockholm Players set to open this weekend, contributor Carina Chela takes a look at Sweden's oldest English-language theatre group. READ »

Snowstorms threaten Sweden's east: agency

Science & Technology: 8 Nov 10
The Swedish weather agency has issued a class 2 warning after predicting several centimetres of snowfall will fall on parts of the country's east coast overnight. READ »

Rainfall warning in effect for southern Sweden

National: 28 Jul 10
A heavy rainfall warning is in effect over southern Sweden for Thursday, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Sveriges meteorologiska och hydrologiska institut, SMHI) has announced. READ »

Translator fined over child porn cartoons

National: 25 Jul 10
A Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics has been fined by Uppsala district court for possession of drawings depicting children engaged in sexual acts. READ »

Stormy Sweden set for more warm weather

National: 25 Jul 10
Stormy conditions led to flooding in parts of Sweden on Saturday night, but meteorologists forecast a return to glorious sunshine in the coming days. READ »

Sunday heat record proves lull before storm

National: 12 Jul 10
The weekend saw record temperatures across much of Sweden with Saturday's high beaten on Sunday by the 35 degrees recorded in Målilla in southern Sweden, before thunder and rain gave welcome respite on Sunday evening. READ »

HostelBookers' Day Trips from Stockholm

Travel: 1 Jul 10
HostelBookers invites you to explore the beaten path outside Stockholm by taking day trips to Uppsala, Västerås and Drottningholm, writes Madeleine Wilson. READ »

Swedes change last names in droves

National: 31 Dec 09
Despite occasional interference by the Swedish Tax Agency, Swedes set a new record in 2009 in changing their last names. READ »

Government keeps new Stockholm- Arlanda rail link on track

Society: 26 Nov 09
It will soon be possible to take a Stockholm commuter train directly to Arlanda airport, after the government on Thursday gave the go ahead to Uppsala and Stockholm to cooperate on a commuter rail route connecting the two counties. READ »

'Hamburglar' hits Stockholm-area McDonald's

Society: 12 Nov 09
A hungry thief sent an employee from a Stockholm-area McDonald’s to hospital on Wednesday night before making off with a booty that included more than just money. READ »

Firebomb chaos in Uppsala

National: 31 Aug 09
Authorities are convening a crisis meeting in Uppsala today after a wild weekend of firebombings and burning cars in the suburb of Gottsunda. READ »

Swedish archaeologists uncover 7th century ship

Science & Technology: 27 Aug 09
Swedish archaeologists have announced the find of a 7th century burial ship, the oldest of its kind to be discovered in Scandinavia. READ »

Heavy Baltic rains heading for Sweden

Science & Technology: 8 Jul 09
A powerful low-pressure system currently racing north across the Baltic Sea is expected to sweep over Sweden late on Wednesday night and into Thursday, bringing with it torrential rains and chilly temperatures. READ »

Teenage boy arrested for bus stop stabbing

National: 26 May 09
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for the attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl at a bus stop in Upplands-Väsby near Stockholm on Monday afternoon. READ »

Girl stabbed in the back at bus stop

National: 25 May 09
A manhunt is underway in eastern Sweden after a 16-year-old girl was stabbed in the back at a bus stop in the town of Upplands Väsby on Monday afternoon. READ »

Police in moonshine raid on Uppsala farm

National: 23 Apr 09
Police raided a farm in Uppland in central Sweden on Wednesday and seized a large quantity of illegal moonshine. READ »

Swedish police in major paedophile sting

National: 23 Apr 09
A man in Uppland in central Sweden is suspected of raping a minor and exploiting more than 70 young girls who were coerced into exposing themselves on the internet. READ »

Lottery millionaire suspected of murder

National: 23 Jan 09
A 30-year-old Swedish lottery millionaire has been arrested on suspicion of having shot and killed a man outside a restaurant north of Stockholm in the early hours of Thursday morning. READ »

Man shot dead north of Stockholm

National: 22 Jan 09
A man was shot and killed outside the Magasinet restaurant in Upplands Väsby north of Stockholm in front of crowd of witnesses early Thursday morning. READ »

Knutby pastor: 'We have moved on'

National: 11 Jan 09
Five years have now passed since the Pentecostal church pastor Helge Fossmo persuaded his nanny to murder his wife and his lover's husband. Knutby pastor Peter Gembäck claims the village has moved on. READ »

Stockholm club and concert tips: Friday, Jan 9

Lifestyle: 7 Jan 09
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips. READ »

Swedish singles shun New Year revelry

Dating: 29 Dec 08
Swedish singles prefer a quiet night in on New Year's Eve and have a more reticent attitude to pleasurable pursuits in general, a new survey of European attitudes has shown. READ »

Stockholm club and concert tips: Friday, Dec 19

Lifestyle: 18 Dec 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips. READ »

Swedish farm hit by anthrax outbreak

Science & Technology: 13 Dec 08
A farm in the vicinity of Varberg in western Sweden has been hit by an outbreak of anthrax. Thirteen cattle have so far died from the disease which has not been seen in Sweden since 1981 and is harmful to humans. READ »

Stockholm club and concert tips: Friday, Dec 12

Lifestyle: 10 Dec 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips. READ »

Stockholm club and concert tips: Friday, Dec 5

Lifestyle: 4 Dec 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips. READ »

Stockholm club and concert tips: Friday, Nov 28

Lifestyle: 27 Nov 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips. READ »

Winter storm blows over Sweden

National: 24 Nov 08
Traffic problems, flight delays and power outages were left in the wake of Sweden’s first major winter storm, which headed out to the Baltic Sea early on Monday morning boasting hurricane force winds. READ »

Stockholm club and concert tips: Friday, Nov 21

Lifestyle: 19 Nov 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips. READ »

Stockholm going out guide: Friday, Nov 14

Lifestyle: 13 Nov 08
Have a great night out in Stockholm with top tips from the clubgoers at Djungeltrumman. READ »

Stockholm going out guide: Friday, Nov 7

Lifestyle: 6 Nov 08
The Local helps fulfil all your Stockholm nightlife needs this Friday in cooperation with the ever-reliable entertainment gurus from Djungeltrumman. READ »

Stockholm going out guide: Friday, Oct 31

Lifestyle: 30 Oct 08
Friday night has a Halloween flavour this week. Sample all the scary wares with tips from The Local's club partners Djungeltrumman. READ »

Stockholm weekend going out guide: Friday, Oct 24

Lifestyle: 21 Oct 08
The Local hooks up with entertainment experts Djungeltrumman for tips on where to go out this weekend. READ »

Huge doping ring uncovered in Sweden

National: 21 Oct 08
Swedish police rounded up 40 people on Tuesday in series of pre-dawn raids across the country in an effort to crack a massive doping scam. READ »

Earthquake hits northern Sweden

National: 17 Oct 08
An earthquake rumbled through northern Sweden on Thursday night, according to local media reports. READ »

Stockholm weekend going out guide: Friday, Oct 17

Lifestyle: 14 Oct 08
The Local helps fulfil all your Stockholm nightlife needs this Friday in cooperation with the ever-reliable entertainment gurus from Djungeltrumman. READ »

Stockholm weekend going out guide: Friday, Oct 10

Lifestyle: 6 Oct 08
The Local helps fulfil all your Stockholm nightlife needs this Friday in cooperation with the ever-reliable entertainment gurus at Djungeltrumman. READ »

Stockholm weekend going out guide: Friday, Oct 3

Lifestyle: 30 Sep 08
The Local helps fulfil all your Stockholm nightlife needs this Friday in cooperation with the ever-reliable entertainment gurus at Djungeltrumman. READ »

Stockholm weekend club guide: September 26 - 27

Lifestyle: 25 Sep 08
It’s the weekend, it’s the end of the month, and it’s time to find some good quality dancing shoes. Let Djungeltrumman be your cobbler. READ »

Stockholm weekend club guide: September 19 - 20

Lifestyle: 18 Sep 08
The Local helps fulfil all your Stockholm nightlife needs this weekend in cooperation with the ever-reliable entertainment gurus at Djungeltrumman. READ »

Stockholm weekend going out guide: September 12 - 13

Lifestyle: 12 Sep 08
The Local helps fulfil all your Stockholm nightlife needs this weekend in cooperation with the ever-reliable entertainment gurus at Djungeltrumman. READ »

Two hurt as 'gyrocopter' crashes near Stockholm

National: 23 Aug 08
A woman was seriously injured and a man sustained minor injuries as their home-made gyrocopter aircraft crashed in Upplands-Bro, north of Stockholm on Saturday. READ »

Care givers locked woman in her home for four years

National: 4 Aug 08
Personal care assistants kept a Swedish woman with mental disabilities locked in her apartment for four years. READ »

Heavy rainfall ahead

National: 3 Aug 08
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) has issued a class 1 warning for heavy rainfall on Monday. The counties of Norrland and Uppland in northern Sweden are to be most affected. READ »

20-year-old dies after police cell suicide bid

National: 11 Jul 08
A young man has died after hanging himself from a toilet door while in police custody in Uppsala. It is the second suicide this year in the town's police cells. READ »

44-year-old admits to selling wife for sex

National: 21 May 08
A 44-year-old man accused of selling his 19-year-old mentally disabled wife for sex admitted to some of the charges against him when his trial began on Wednesday morning. READ »

Viking treasure found near Arlanda

National: 4 Apr 08
A unique Viking-era silver treasure has been uncovered near Sweden’s Arlanda airport. READ »

Weekend storms 'not as bad as feared'

National: 20 Jan 08
Nearly 5,000 households in southern Sweden were suffering power cuts on Sunday morning, but the destruction was not at the level of previous storms. READ »

Bus driver masturbated in front of passenger

National: 4 Dec 07
A female passenger got a nasty shock on Monday afternoon when the driver of her bus exposed himself to her. READ »

Young woman found dead in Uppsala student area

National: 10 Nov 07
A young woman was found dead on Friday night in an apartment in Studentstaden, the student quarter of Uppsala. Police say they are not ruling out the possibility of a crime. READ »

Teen Nazis convicted of brutal murder

National: 1 Nov 07
Two 16-year old members of a neo-Nazi group have been convicted of the murder of a physically disabled 55-year-old man. READ »

Christian Democrat: test schoolkids for drug use

Politics: 27 Oct 07
A senior Christian Democrat member of parliament has proposed introducing compulsory drug testing for all high school children. READ »

Snow warning issued for central Sweden

National: 11 Oct 07
Many parts of central Sweden are bracing themselves for the first snow of the season, with motorists warned to expect slippery conditions. READ »

Teen Nazis 'murdered disabled man'

National: 10 Oct 07
Two teenage boys have been charged with murdering a disabled 55-year-old man near Stockholm in June. The suspects are members of a known neo-Nazi group. READ »

Murdered woman's husband killed eight years ago

National: 24 Jul 07
A 51-year-old woman who is thought to have been murdered in Söderhamn last Friday was shot in a previous attack eight years ago - when the father of her youngest son was killed. READ »

Black widow spider bites Swede after Atlantic voyage

National: 7 Jul 07
A man from Upplands Väsby discovered an unexpected stowaway in his car, newly-imported from California, on Saturday morning: a black widow spider - and a hungry one at that. READ »

Four teens arrested over man's death

National: 19 Jun 07
Four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 50-year-old man whose body was found in an apartment near Stockholm on Tuesday. READ »

Storms expected to break warm spell

Science & Technology: 11 Jun 07
Heavy thunder storms are forecast to strike many parts of Sweden on Monday night, after several days of temperatures in the high twenties celsius. READ »

Swede arrested in Ireland for smuggling cocaine

National: 29 May 07
A 30-year-old Swedish man was arrested at Dublin airport at the weekend when he was found to be carrying a large quantity of cocaine in his stomach. READ »

Top businesswoman 'should lead Liberals'

Politics: 4 May 07
She's been named by Forbes as one of the hundred most powerful women in the world. Now businesswoman Antonia Ax:son Johnson has been put forward as leader of the Liberal Party. READ »

Criminal investigation at Swedish nuclear plant

National: 2 Feb 07
A Swedish prosecutor is to investigate the handling of a power outage at the Forsmark nuclear plant in July last year. "There is reason to suspect that a crime has been committed," said Karin Mörnstad. READ »

Shot fired at taxi north of Stockholm

National: 31 Dec 06
A taxi driver was threatened by a man with a firearm in the town of Upplands Väsby, north of Stockholm, on Saturday night. READ »

Fireman started blazes to 'fuel career'

National: 18 Dec 06
Swedish fire fighters were puzzled by the large concentration of fires around one of their stations. Could there be an arsonist in their midst? READ »

National alert for 19 year old kidnapper

National: 8 Dec 06
Swedish police are hunting a 19 year old man who is thought to have abducted his 18 year old ex-girlfriend from her home in Upplands Väsby, north of Stockholm. READ »

"Beautiful women" captured by Swedish passport control

National: 5 Dec 06
Two customs workers have drawn the ire of police authorities for collecting passport photos of "exceptionally beautiful women". READ »

Markus is Sweden's new Idol

National: 2 Dec 06
A record 1.2 million telephone votes decided the outcome of Idol 2006 on Friday night in favour of 23 year old Markus Fagervall from Övertoneå, northern Sweden. "It feels great," he said. Repeatedly. READ »

Woman gets bill for her own funeral

Society: 9 Nov 06
Britt-Marie Tholin knew that the bill for 1,400 kronor that landed on her doorstep must have been a mistake – it was for her funeral wake. That's my name, she said, but I'm not dead. READ »

Snow brings trains to a standstill

National: 1 Nov 06
Wintery conditions have paralysed the rail network in central Sweden, with 1,300 passengers left stranded overnight on trains. 45,000 households are without electricity. READ »

Severe storms batter Sweden

National: 27 Oct 06
Southern Sweden has been battered by heavy winds and rain, with Halland the worst hit area. A severe weather warning has been issued for northern Sweden, where snow and strong winds are expected to cause disruption. READ »

Sewage smell upsets trapped passengers

National: 25 Sep 06
People on a train that came to a halt in central Sweden were trapped for three hours without fresh air, as a smell of sewage spread around the carriages. READ »

Dirty Harry justice in small town Sweden

Society: 15 Aug 06
A police officer in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, is in hot water for dishing out a bit of his own rough justice on an incontinent drunk. READ »

Cholera infects Blekinge swimmer

Science & Technology: 3 Aug 06
A third case of cholera has been diagnosed among people who have been swimming in Blekinge over the past few days. People with open sores should not swim, say experts. READ »

Two dead in Midsummer traffic

National: 24 Jun 06
Two men, aged 23 and 27 years old, have so far died in Sweden's Midsummer traffic. But despite these and other accidents across the country, police say that the traffic has been unusually calm. READ »

Axemen rob security vehicle

National: 26 May 06
Three men robbed a security vehicle on Friday afternoon outside a Coop store in Upplands Väsby, north of Stockholm. They were armed with pistols and an axe, said police. READ »

Earthquake shakes Stockholm

National: 25 May 06
A seismologist has confirmed that rumbling heard overnight in Stockholm, which prompted hundreds of residents to call SOS Alarm fearing a mysterious explosion, was in fact an earthquake. READ »

Elephant injured in Stockholm crash

National: 10 May 06
A crash north of Stockholm on Tuesday resulted in three elephants escaping from their truck, while another was injured. READ »

Firebomb thrown at far-right meeting

National: 7 May 06
Molotov cocktails were thrown at a school where two right-wing extremist groups were holding a meeting on Saturday night. READ »

Tourist offices around Sweden

Travel: 3 May 06
A handy list of Sweden's tourist offices, along with their phone numbers, email addresses and web sites. READ »

Police cadet re-arrested in murder case

National: 8 Mar 06
A 36 year old trainee police officer is being held in custody in Uppsala on suspicion of being involved with the disappearance of a 32 year old woman in Uppland last year. The district court found there to be sufficient evidence to detain him for abduction. READ »

34 injured in major pile up

National: 4 Mar 06
A major pile-up on the E4 motorway between Arlanda and Upplands Väsby caused southbound traffic to come to a complete standstill on Saturday afternoon. Driving conditions in the Stockholm region are treacherous, police warn. READ »

Ice warning as temperature drops

National: 24 Dec 05
Despite "unusual calm" on the roads so far this Christmas, meteorologists warn that things are about to turn slippery, especially in the south and middle of Sweden. READ »

Armed robbery suspect "was a police informer"

National: 7 Dec 05
Three men appeared in Stockholm district court on Wednesday suspected of carrying out the armed robbery of a Securitas depot in Akalla, in north west Stockholm, in August. One of the men is a police informer. READ »

Elk hunter shot dead

National: 10 Oct 05
A man has been killed while out hunting an elk near Uppsala. The man died of gunshot wounds, according to local police. READ »

Young Social Democrats face fraud inquiry

Politics: 22 Mar 05
An increasing number of Sweden's Young Social Democrat (SSU) "chapters" are now under investigation by the police after it was revealed that they have been artificially inflating their membership numbers to secure more state funding. READ »

It's snowtime!

National: 18 Nov 04
Sweden experiences a good covering of snow for the first time in years. Or so you'd think, judging from the reports of unprepared roads, unprepared drivers and ensuing traffic chaos. READ »


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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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