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May 28, 2012
Danderyd
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Three in four Rosengård children 'live in poverty'
National: 12 Mar 12
In the Malmö district of Rosengård over 70 percent of children are living in relative poverty, according to fresh figures from Statistics Sweden, which measures the growing economic divides across the country.
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Patient dies after being hit by hospital door
Science & Technology: 22 Feb 12
A patient exiting a Stockholm-area hospital has died after slamming into an automatic door.
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Agencies list Sweden's safest places
Society: 21 Dec 11
The safest municipality in Sweden is Habo, north of Jönköping in central Sweden, where the risk of having an accident or being subjected to a crime is the smallest in the country, according to a new report.
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Rail service's hidden cameras 'illegal': agency
National: 20 Dec 11
Sweden's national rail service, SJ, has been slammed by the Data Inspection Board after it was discovered the company was filming staff with hidden cameras to stop widespread pilfering on trains.
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Giant penis mystery baffles Stockholm suburb
Society: 24 Nov 11
A wealthy Swedish businessman was surprised to learn that the grounds near his luxurious home in suburban Stockholm appear to feature a giant penis visible only from the sky. Local officials were also taken aback by the news.
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Swedish 9-year-old launches 'bun help' to aid children in Africa
Society: 24 Aug 11
A 9-year-old Swedish girl whose fundraising efforts for starving children in Africa has attracted the attention of government ministers wants more children to join her cause.
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Dry weather prompts Stockholm fire ban
National: 2 Aug 11
The Greater Stockholm Fire Brigade has announced the introduction of a ban on fires in the areas in and around the Swedish capital following a spell of warmer weather which has left the ground extremely dry.
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Swedish doc tore baby's windpipe during delivery
Society: 6 May 11
The delivery of a baby at a Stockholm hospital turned into a struggle of life and death when the doctor pulled and tugged to get the baby out, causing multiple brain haemorrhages and a torn windpipe.
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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.
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Swedes can expect to live longer: report
National: 17 Mar 11
Swedes are living longer than ever before, according to new statistics, with residents of one upscale Stockholm suburb claiming the highest average life-expectancy for both sexes.
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Bridal couple grateful for toaster
Society: 19 Jun 10
Crown Princess Victoria and fiancé Daniel Westling received a toaster and a wooden horse as wedding gifts when officials converged on Stockholm City Hall for a reception on Friday afternoon.
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Habo 'best place to live in Sweden'
National: 28 May 10
Habo in Västergötland in southern Sweden is the best place in Sweden to live, according to a ranking by Fokus magazine.
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One dead in bus crash
National: 19 May 10
One person has died and 14 others were injured in a bus accident on Färingsö west of Stockholm.
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Stockholm suburb tops school rankings: report
National: 7 May 10
The Stockholm suburb of Danderyd comes out top in a new report ranking Sweden's schools with 93 percent of its pupils graduating after their nine-year education.
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Woman dies after passive euthanasia ruling
National: 6 May 10
A 32-year-old woman who was completely paralysed and had been on life support since she was six, died on Wednesday after her respirator was unplugged, in Sweden's first case of euthanasia.
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Paralysed woman demands right to die
Society: 18 Mar 10
A 31-year-old woman who is completely paralysed and has been on a respirator since she was six, has demanded the right to die in a letter to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Driver reported for kicking gay man off bus
Society: 2 Mar 10
The discrimination ombudsman (DO) has asked Stockholm local transport authority, SL, to adequately compensate a gay man after a bus driver ordered him to leave the bus.
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Stockholm swells with millionaire men
Business & Money: 21 Jan 10
Stockholm-area men dominate the ranks of the roughly 40,000 Swedes who earn more than one million kronor ($139,000) per year, fresh statistics show.
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One in five kids in Malmö live in poverty: report
Society: 23 Nov 09
The southern Swedish city of Malmö has more children living in families with a low standard of living than in any other municipality in Sweden, new statistics show.
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'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.
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Stockholmers 'fund the rest of Sweden': report
Politics: 21 Oct 09
Stockholm-area taxpayers help fund the rest of Sweden to the tune of 14 billion kronor ($2 billion) a year to put the country’s municipalities on an equal financial footing.
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Swedish bus driver sacked for sending text message
National: 9 Oct 09
A Swedish bus driver has been sacked for sending a text message while driving from Stockholm to Norrtälje. The driver was caught on film by a passenger.
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'I fell for her beautiful blue eyes'
Society: 11 Aug 09
Princess Madeleine and fiancé Jonas Bergström revealed on Tuesday that their decision to wed came in June when the future duke went down on one knee during a holiday on the Italian island of Capri.
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Princess Madeleine announces engagement
Society: 11 Aug 09
Princess Madeleine, Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf's youngest child, is to wed her long-time boyfriend Jonas Bergström, the Royal Court has announced.
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Scottish swine flu patient no longer critical
National: 8 Aug 09
The condition of the 26-year-old pregnant Scottish woman being treated for swine flu in a special ward at Karolinska Hospital is no longer life-threatening, doctors say.
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Patient dies due to improper IV administration
National: 6 Jul 09
A patient at Danderyd hospital in Stockholm was reported dead after having received a nutritional intravenous drip too quickly.
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Stockholm suburb ranked best place to live in Sweden
Society: 12 Jun 09
For the second year in a row, the municipality of Danderyd outside of Stockholm has been voted the best place in Sweden to live, according to a magazine’s annual ranking.
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Party leaders lament low voter turnout
Politics: 8 Jun 09
Christian Democrat leader Göran Hägglund has called for campaigning to be extended before the EU parliamentary election to raise interest and encourage more Swedes to vote.
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100,000 lose power after Stockholm fire
National: 1 Jun 09
Up to 100,000 Stockholm households were left without electricity on Sunday night following a series of networks faults and a fire at a transformer station.
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Arson suspected outside Saudi embassy
National: 6 May 09
One man has been arrested following a suspicious car fire outside of Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Stockholm on Wednesday afternoon and bomb technicians continue to search the area.
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Nurse suspected of injecting drugs
Society: 25 Jan 09
A Stockholm-based nurse is suspected by police of drug offences after allegedly stealing and injecting medicine while on duty on at Danderyd Hospital on Saturday night.
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Swedish schools to offer 'elite' courses
Education: 15 Jan 09
Sweden’s National Agency for Education on Thursday named 10 high schools to participate in a new initiative designed to give top performing students a chance to take university-level courses.
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High speed taxi birth for back seat baby
Society: 15 Jan 09
Cab driver Ali Hossinian's last pick-up of the night resulted in the successful birth of a new baby in the back seat of his taxi.
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Borg best in popularity stakes
Politics: 30 Dec 08
Swedish finance minister Anders Borg is ranked highly by his party colleagues with a 71 percent approval rating. Defence minister Sten Tolgfors meanwhile has the backing of only 3 percent of his peers.
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Sweden's new Halal-TV courts controversy
Society: 4 Nov 08
A new programme launched on Monday by Sveriges Television (SVT) featuring three young Swedish Muslim women has sparked a heated debate about cultural norms and integration.
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Sweden to cut corporate tax rate
Business & Money: 8 Sep 08
The Swedish government announced plans on Monday to introduce 16 billion kronor ($2.4 billion) worth of relief for Swedish business through business tax cuts and a reduction in social fees.
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Affluent Stockholm suburb named best place to live
Society: 12 Jun 08
The Stockholm suburb of Danderyd is the best place to live, according to a new ranking by the magazine Fokus. Ljusnarsberg in central Sweden is the worst.
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Swedish women close to bottom of EU business start-up rankings
Business & Money: 18 Feb 08
While Sweden usually ranks high in matters of gender equity, a new study reveals an exception when to comes to business.
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Swedes hit with massive tax bill
National: 7 Feb 08
Swedes handed over a whopping 577 billion kronor of their income in taxes in 2007. No wonder the Finance Minister is smiling.
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More Swedes choose surgery as path to slimmer waistlines
National: 7 Feb 08
Experts project 10,000 gastric bypass operations annually.
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Man arrested after student apartment fire
National: 12 Nov 07
A fire completely gutted an apartment at Stockholm University on Monday afternoon, leaving 50 neighbouring students homeless. A man has been arrested on suspicion of starting the fire.
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Stroke patients left without speech therapy
Society: 13 Oct 07
Six out of ten local authorities in Sweden do not employ speech therapists for stroke patients, according to figures from the Swedish National Stroke Register.
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Living the high life
Lifestyle: 12 Sep 07
Hot air balloons have almost become part of Stockholm's summer and autumn skyline. Charlotte West took to the skies, discovering great views and some strange ballooning traditions.
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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.
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Lund 'best place to live in Sweden'
Society: 14 Jun 07
The university and cathedral city of Lund in Skåne is the best place in Sweden to live. The industrial community of Munkfors in Värmland is the worst, a new survey says.
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Gambling monopoly 'targets the poor'
National: 8 Apr 07
Sweden's state-owned gambling company, Svenska Spel, has been accused of targeting people living in poor areas. Poorer suburbs of Stockholm have high numbers of gaming machines, while richer areas have none.
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SL learns its ABCs
Lifestyle: 2 Apr 07
Stockholm Transport (SL) has changed its ticketing system again. Whether you're a perplexed resident or just in the city on a visit, Charlotte West can tell you how it all works.
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Swedes' earnings break the trillion barrier
Society: 23 Jan 07
Swedes earned more than one trillion kronor for the first time in 2005, with people in the Stockholm area earning most. People in northern areas had the lowest incomes.
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Alliance divisions over property taxes
Politics: 15 Aug 06
A suggestion from Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt that the Alliance could reduce mortgage interest tax relief has met with objections from the Christian Democrats.
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20 injured as Stockholm trains collide
National: 8 Jul 06
Two suburban trains crashed head-on at Märsta station, north of Stockholm, on Saturday night. Over 20 people were taken to hospital following the accident.
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Record investment in integration
National: 27 Mar 06
Just in time for the election, the government plans to spend 1.7bn kronor to improve the integration of immigrants. The largest single such investment ever, according to integration minister, Jens Orback.
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Average family "cannot afford a house"
Society: 10 Nov 05
Average families where both parents are in blue-collar jobs on a collective wage agreement are no longer able to afford to buy a house in most parts of Sweden, according to a new report.
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Health fears over Karolinska cutbacks
National: 30 Sep 05
Karolinska University Hospital is forced to cut 280 million kronor from its budget next year, leading to fears that the quality of healthcare in the Stockholm region will suffer as a result.
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Swedish jazz legend dies
Lifestyle: 12 Aug 05
One of the world's leading boogie-woogie pianists, Charlie Norman, died on Thursday night after a long battle with cancer.
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Swedish tourists arrive home from earthquake horror
National: 28 Dec 04
"Evacuation planes" have begun bringing Swedes home from the disaster-struck region of Phuket in Thailand. Crisis teams are in place at airports across the country.
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Drugged cake "a bad joke"
National: 31 Oct 04
A staff party at the Bergianska Botanical Garden ends in a bad trip to hospital for 13 people who tucked into cake prepared by one of their colleagues - and the police aren't laughing.
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Celebrities pushing up house prices
Smörgåsbord: 31 Aug 04
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Time to get the party started
Politics: 18 Jun 04
An astonishing twist in the European Election tale as the four month old Junilistan party shocks the big names.
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Birth dash halted by car theft
National: 18 Jun 04
The last thing you need when your water breaks is a gun at your husband's head and your car stolen. And a jewish girl is knifed by six Hitler-saluting Nazis. Wakey-wakey, Sweden.
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »
"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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