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Criminals threatened to blow up police station

National: 25 Feb 10
Two seasoned criminals threatened to blow up themselves and the police station in Kristianstad in southern Sweden on Thursday morning. The drama ended when the men gave up shortly before 5am. READ »

Diplomat and wife jailed for smuggling cigarettes

National: 16 Dec 09
A North Korean diplomat and his wife have been sentenced to eight months in prison by a court in Stockholm for attempting to smuggle more than 230,000 cigarettes into Sweden. READ »

North Korean diplomats' smuggling scheme up in smoke

National: 20 Nov 09
Two North Korean diplomats are being held on suspicion of trying to smuggle 230,000 cigarettes from Russia into Sweden. READ »

Two Swedes convicted for selling illegal porn

National: 15 Oct 09
Two porn peddlers from northwestern Sweden have been convicted for selling pornographic films with exceedingly violent content. READ »

Stockholm smokers hit with ban

Society: 27 Aug 09
Stockholm city employees will be ordered to stub out their cigarettes at work from May 1st next year as the city is the latest Swedish municipality to announce a ban. READ »

'Smokers cost Swedish councils billions': report

Society: 25 Aug 09
Smokers are costing Swedish municipalities 2.6 billion kronor ($367 million) per annum in the form of breaks and sickness absences, a new report shows. READ »

'Self-harm common even among boys': study

Society: 17 Aug 09
Four out of ten Swedes aged 14-15 have reported deliberately injuring themselves, a new report shows. READ »

Walking in nature is unnatural

Analysis & Opinion: 18 May 09
While pondering the remembrance of things past, Jeanne Rudbeck decides she'd much rather sip a latte in the city than flee Stockholm for Nature with the rest of the population. READ »

Teen girls convicted for 'torture-like' assault

National: 14 May 09
A court in Malmö convicted two 15-year-old girls from southern Sweden for the “torture-like” beating of another 13-year-old girl in a dispute over insulting text and internet chat messages. READ »

Adam Tensta: Sweden's great hip-hop hope

Lifestyle: 13 May 09
Sweden's rising hip-hop star Adam Tensta talks to The Local's Majsan Boström about bright musical prospects, growing up in a tough Stockholm neighbourhood, and recording in the same studio as boyhood idol Michael Jackson. READ »

Molestation charges for face-licking bus driver

Society: 31 Mar 09
A bus driver in Falun in central Sweden has been charged for licking the faces of young girls while on duty. READ »

Overweight people die younger: Swedish study

Science & Technology: 25 Feb 09
Researchers in Sweden have found that people who are overweight from a young age run a much increased risk of dying prematurely. READ »

Teacher fined following beer run for 15-year-olds

Society: 3 Feb 09
A Stockholm-area middle school teacher who purchased beer for two 15-year-old girls has been sentenced to 7,500 kronor ($900) in fines. READ »

Cop's craving uncovers contraband cigarettes

National: 2 Feb 09
When a police officer was offered two different prices for a pack of cigarettes at a tobacco store in southern Sweden, he put his nicotine craving aside and called for backup. READ »

Safer cigarettes on Swedish shelves in 2010

Society: 4 Jan 09
From 2010 it will become illegal to sell cigarettes in Sweden and across the EU that are not self-extinguishing. The new rules are forecast to save many of the 2,000 lives lost across the continent to fires ignited by cigarettes. READ »

Swedish teen on trial for snack attack

National: 5 Nov 08
A 15-year-old Swedish boy is facing as much as six months in prison over a ripped bag of chips. READ »

Chilling out with a Baltic spa experience

Travel: 22 Sep 08
If you're looking to pamper yourself this autumn, a spa trip to the Baltics could be just the ticket, writes Alannah Eames. READ »

Surveillance law vote ‘betrayed tenets of a democratic state’

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jul 08
Bangladeshi refugee and writer Tasneem Khalil explains why the Riksdag's vote in favour of the surveillance law has him feeling let down by the country to which he fled to escape state-sanctioned domestic spying. READ »

Chilling details emerge about Engla’s killing

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. READ »

Store refuses to sell cigarettes to pensioner without ID

Society: 7 Jul 08
A pensioner in northern Sweden has vowed never again to set foot in his local supermarket after being asked to prove he was over 18 when buying a pack of cigarettes. READ »

Swedish teens shun condoms and cigarettes

Society: 25 Jun 08
Swedish teens drink and smoke less than their peers in most other countries, but when it comes to sex, young people in Sweden are far from being the most careful. READ »

No butts or ifs for cigarettes at Ica

Society: 11 May 08
The Umeå branch of supermarket chain Ica in northern Sweden is clearing its shelves of cigarettes. READ »

Swedish anti-smoking vaccine to undergo tests

Science & Technology: 28 Apr 08
Swedish researchers believe they may have developed a successful anti-nicotine vaccine. READ »

The new smoking generation

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Apr 08
A smoking ban in Sweden's cafés and restaurants has redefined the lives of smokers and non-smokers alike, writes Peter Vinthagen Simpson. READ »

Sniffing shrunken tea bags in a town in western Sweden

Travel: 14 Apr 08
In his book Cycling Back to Happiness, English journalist Bernie Friend covers 6,000 kilometres of northern Europe on a bicycle in a bid to overcome his paranoia. Here, in the first of three excerpts, he describes a close encounter with moist snuff. READ »

Woman drowns in farm pond

National: 14 Apr 08
A 57-year-old woman was found dead on Sunday on a farm in southern Sweden. READ »

Prison sentence following laundry room rape of teen

National: 6 Mar 08
A man has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for three separate sexual assaults against teenage girls. READ »

Non-smokers could get extra holiday

Society: 16 Feb 08
A local politician in Sweden has proposed that non-smokers should be rewarded with extra holiday. READ »

Teacher accused of making beer run for 15-year olds

National: 11 Feb 08
The teacher was also seen handing cigarettes to students during recess. READ »

Swede arrested in Croatian heroin haul

National: 4 Jan 08
A Swedish citizen has been arrested in Croatia on his way back to Sweden carrying 12 kilos of heroin. READ »

Nicotine patches cleared for sale in supermarkets

Society: 19 Sep 07
Swedes will soon for the first time be able to buy anti-smoking treatments alongside cigarettes, after the government announced plans to end the Apoteket state pharmacy's monopoly on selling the products. READ »

Stockholm shares fall over credit worries

Business & Money: 17 Sep 07
International credit worries were reflected in Stockholm share prices on Monday, with the OMXS index falling 1.6 percent. The more narrowly-based OMXS30 fell by the same amount. READ »

Woman regains right to smoke in own garden

Society: 13 Sep 07
A 49-year-old woman who had been banned from smoking in her own garden is once again free to light up where she chooses after winning her appeal at the Environmental High Court. READ »

Woman appeals garden smoking ban

National: 11 Sep 07
A 49-year-old woman banned from smoking in her own garden has appealed the Environmental Court decision on the basis that it constitutes a violation of her human rights. READ »

Brothers claim 40,000 cigarettes 'for personal use'

National: 28 Aug 07
Two brothers from southern Sweden have been jailed for a month after a court failed to believe that 40,000 cigarettes brought into the country were for their personal use. READ »

Man shot 'for having no cigarettes'

National: 26 Aug 07
Not smoking can be bad for your health too, it seems: a 25-year-old man was shot on Saturday night, apparently for not having any cigarettes. READ »

Woman banned from smoking in own garden

National: 23 Aug 07
A woman in southern Sweden has been told by a court that she may no longer light up in her own garden because her neighbour happens to be very sensitive to cigarette smoke. READ »

Ditch your coats - warm up with a curry

Lifestyle: 20 Jul 07
The terrible summer might have people reaching for their skiing jackets, but Kathleen Harman prefers to warm up from the inside out, with Stockholm's best Indian curry. READ »

Snus 'less dangerous than smoking'

Science & Technology: 11 May 07
A study has shown that snus, the popular Swedish oral snuff, causes no risk of lung or mouth cancer, and is less likely to cause pancreatic cancer than smoking tobacco. READ »

Cigarettes found in nuclear plant restricted zone

Science & Technology: 26 Feb 07
An investigation has started at the Forsmark nuclear power station after an ashtray was found in the plant's restricted zone. The find follows the discovery of radioactive particles outside the restricted zone. READ »

Immigrants blocked from getting Swedish ID

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 07
The Local Exclusive: People moving to Sweden since January have been barred from getting Swedish ID cards – unless they have Swedish spouses. The muddle leaves thousands unable to carry out basic activities. READ »

Dissatisfied customer took salesman hostage

National: 19 Jan 07
A 28-year-old man in Linköping was so unhappy with his new laptop computer that he threatened to kill the man who had sold him the item. READ »

Cigarette thieves drive car through ICA window

National: 14 Jan 07
Early on Sunday morning two men drove a car through the window of an ICA supermarket in Järna, outside Södertälje. Their target was the cigarette cabinet. READ »

Smokers get wages deducted

Society: 6 Nov 06
Smokers who go outside for a cigarette during working hours are having their wages deducted by many public sector employers in Sweden, a new survey shows. READ »

Man on trial for stepdaughter killing

National: 31 Aug 06
A man has gone on trial near Stockholm accused of killing his 12-year old stepdaughter in order to have sex with her best friend. The killing was intentional, says the prosecutor. READ »

SAS deal means plane tickets at Pressbyrån

Business & Money: 22 Aug 06
Scandinavian Airlines has signed a deal with the owners of Pressbyrån to sell tickets to the sun from convenience stores. READ »

One year on, Swedes love smoke-free bars

Society: 25 May 06
It will soon be a year since Sweden banned smoking in bars and restaurants, and opinion is now overwhelmingly in favour. The restaurant industry says it has not lost out, and only 21 percent of smokers are opposed. READ »

Sweden could ban smoking in prison

Society: 25 Apr 06
Swedish prisoners could soon be forced to go without one of the traditional indulgences of life behind bars: cigarettes. READ »

?No kissing? warning after meningitis death

Science & Technology: 13 Apr 06
A 17-year old girl has died of suspected meningitis in the Swedish town of Västerås. Doctors in the town are warning young people in the town not to kiss or share cigarettes or bottles. READ »

Apoteket to lose gum monopoly

Science & Technology: 23 Feb 06
Apoteket, Sweden's state run pharmacy chain, is going to have to break its addiction to nicotine gum and other medicines to help smokers quit. A government inquiry proposes making it available in the same places that sell tobacco. READ »

Swedes make their presence felt in Venice

Lifestyle: 15 Sep 05
Led by Casanova, in which Swedish director Lasse Hallström turns the tale of the 18th century lothario into a light comedy, Swedes were out in full force at the Venice Film Festival. READ »

Massive cigarette haul bound for Sweden

National: 6 Sep 05
Estonian customs officers seize one million contraband cigarettes hidden in the cargo of a truck that was waiting to board a ship bound for Sweden. READ »

Government tax reforms to slash booze prices

Politics: 24 Aug 05
A 40% cut in the tax on spirits. A lowering of income tax. Increased sickness benefits. A cynic might note that 2006 is election year - but everyone else is too busy working out how much cheaper a bottle of vodka will be (70 kronor). READ »

Smoking banned on Åland ferries

Smörgåsbord: 10 Aug 05
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Sweden stubs out for good

Society: 1 Jun 05
A ban on smoking in all Swedish bars and restaurants came into force at midnight on Tuesday - and with snus to keep them happy, nicotine-addicts are rather calm about the whole thing. READ »

Police officers jailed for brutality caught on film

National: 30 May 05
Two Swedish police officers are found guilty of assaulting a pensioner in a petrol station outside Stockholm last summer. They denied the charges, but a video of the whole incident didn't exactly help their case. READ »

Snus firms gear up for cigarette ban

Business & Money: 5 Apr 05
With the ban on smoking in pubs, clubs and restaurants approaching, Sweden's "snus" producers are lining up to woo cigarette smokers who need their nicotine fix whilst out on the town. READ »

Police brutality caught on tape

National: 12 Mar 05
Two police officers are prosecuted for brutally attacking pensioner Åke Djerfsten at a petrol station south of Stockholm after he leaned on their car door. The officers deny the charges - but a security camera caught the whole incident. READ »

Record drugs hauls by Swedish Customs in 2004

National: 29 Dec 04
The amount of amphetamines, opium, kat and ecstasy seized by Swedish Customs during 2004 beat all previous records, as authorities increase their focus on organized crime. READ »

EU upholds ban on Swedish snus

Business & Money: 14 Dec 04
In "a sad day for public health" tobacco company Swedish Match has its bid to overturn an EU ban on the sale of snus rejected by the European Court. READ »

Health minister on cigarettes: don't scare kids

Science & Technology: 27 Oct 04
Sweden's health minister wants to protect children from scary pictures on cigarette packets designed to protect them from dying prematurely. READ »

Lighter gas killed 14-year-old girl

Smörgåsbord: 16 Sep 04
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Alconomics

National: 30 Jul 04
The media onslaught on the government's increasingly isolated alcohol policies continues, with the battle being fought on the twin fronts of futility and finance. And one newspaper does its unsubtle best to put readers on the wagon. READ »

Living dangerously

Science & Technology: 23 Jul 04
The land of the public health warning adds a few more to the list. And tenants in a Malmö building are banned from smoking in their own apartments. Cotton wool, anyone? READ »

Smoked out

Science & Technology: 8 Apr 04
A bad week for smokers - you can't smoke inside, you can't smoke outside, and don't even think of turning to snus. READ »

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