February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Drunk":
Society: 10 Feb 12
Police in Stockholm are looking to beef up efforts to put the brakes on a “vodka-mobile” that delivers hard liquor to school children in the Swedish capital who place their orders via text message.
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Society: 9 Feb 12
A man in southern Sweden has been charged with assault after threatening to ‘bring in his gang’ to a local hairdressing salon after being refused a haircut.
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Science & Technology: 9 Feb 12
An increasing number of young Swedes are starving themselves by day to be able to binge on calorie-rich alcoholic drinks by night, as a well known phenomenon in the US is becoming more common in Sweden.
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National: 30 Jan 12
The woman found dead from stab wounds over the weekend in the Stockholm area was discovered by her next door neighbour who alerted the police after being called to the scene by the woman's boyfriend.
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National: 12 Jan 12
A 26-year-old police officer from western Sweden has been charged with raping a female colleague at a party in Gothenburg last summer.
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Business & Money: 11 Jan 12
A cargo ship ran aground in the Kalmar strait in the early hours of Wednesday and police suspect the captain and the chief officer of being drunk on duty.
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National: 2 Jan 12
After the latest incident where a 15-year-old died from shot wounds to the head and chest on Sunday evening, police say that the situation in Malmö is “strained” due to a steady rise in violence in the area.
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National: 1 Jan 12
Police were kept busy during the last evening of 2011 with celebrations all over Sweden getting out of hand and resulting in brawling and firework accidents.
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Politics: 31 Dec 11
Tobacco users in Sweden will have to dig deeper into their wallets as another tax increase comes into force in the new year, while parental leave benefits as well as housing allowances are set to increase starting on January 1st.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Dec 11
With 2012 just around the corner, The Local wants to to hear from readers about what they think will be making news in Sweden in the year ahead.
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Society: 26 Dec 11
Many people went overboard in their Christmas merriment this year, with arrests for public drunkenness up across Sweden over the weekend.
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Society: 23 Dec 11
A 46-year-old Swede who sawed down several pine trees in a drunken rampage, leaving their distraught owner in need of therapy, has been convicted by a court on the Baltic island of Gotland.
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National: 16 Dec 11
A 39-year-old taxi driver has been charged for raping a 28-year-old female passenger in the back seat while taking her home after a night out in the Stockholm nightlife district of Stureplan.
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National: 13 Dec 11
A Swedish man has gone into hiding in Norway after claiming that his wife tried to kill him by serving him antifreeze in a glass of Coke.
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National: 1 Dec 11
A Finnish man, previously convicted of murdering three people in northern Sweden in 1988, has been arrested in Helsinki following his escape from a prison in Finland last week.
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Politics: 30 Nov 11
The Sweden Democrats have sued the Riksdag in the administrative court after they lost their financial support for former member William Petzäll, who left the party in the autumn.
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Science & Technology: 29 Nov 11
Some 46 percent of Swedes are uncertain whether they have drunk too much when they get behind the wheel, according to a new survey.
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National: 23 Nov 11
A Finnish man, previously convicted of murdering three people in northern Sweden in 1988, escaped from a prison in Finland on Wednesday morning where he was serving time for drunk driving.
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Politics: 22 Nov 11
Two young members of the youth wing of the Moderate Party have been asked to leave the organization after posting a picture of themselves making the Nazi salute on a personal blog. One of them has also been charged with hate speech.
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National: 21 Nov 11
A Church of Sweden pastor has been sacked after having returned from a military base on Sicily following a drunken binge.
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National: 12 Nov 11
Sober drivers who injure another person in traffic often receive longer prison sentences than drunk drivers, according to new research.
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Society: 6 Nov 11
The All Saints holiday weekend brought trouble throughout Sweden, with a notable spike in drunkenness, fights and other assaults in the north of the country.
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Society: 2 Nov 11
"Continental" drinking habits among Swedes have had a positive impact on violent crime levels, despite a rising alcohol consumption, according to a report on Tuesday.
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Society: 1 Nov 11
The recent acquittal by Sweden's Supreme Court of a man charged with attempted murder because he claimed he was “too intoxicated” to remember the incident, has been slammed by legal experts.
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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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Society: 30 Oct 11
A 62-year-old woman from southern Sweden has been convicted of drunken driving after taking a golf cart out on a local course while under the influence.
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National: 28 Oct 11
The number of elderly criminal suspects in Sweden is increasing, according to new statistics, with indecent exposure and drunk driving among the most common offences.
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Society: 25 Oct 11
A new website featuring attractive Swedish men in the Stockholm metro system allows people to share snapshots of those they think deserve extra attention.
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Politics: 24 Oct 11
Independent Swedish MP William Petzäll, who left the Sweden Democrats amidst a battle with substance abuse, has been involuntarily committed to treatment after a recent hospitalization.
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Society: 12 Oct 11
The Local is taking another step out into the world, with the launch of thelocal.no, Norway’s news in English. There’s no better place to find out what’s going on in Sweden’s back yard, says editor Paul O’Mahony.
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National: 6 Oct 11
An officer with the Swedish border police in Västra Götaland was convicted Wednesday for offering a female asylum seeker to ”forget about her case” in return for sex and drugs.
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National: 3 Oct 11
The average murderer in Sweden and neighbouring Finland are drunk men armed with knives who kill on the spur of the moment, according to a new study.
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Politics: 28 Sep 11
A network of former Sweden Democrats has offered support to 23-year-old William Petzäll after his decision to leave the party and remain in the Riksdag as an independent, encouraging him to stand strong against the party hierarchy.
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Politics: 26 Sep 11
The Sweden Democrats have a lost a Riksdag seat following a decision by William Petzäll to leave the party and sit as an independent as a result of his alcohol and prescription drug abuse.
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Sport: 26 Sep 11
Several arrests were made in Helsingborg town centre on Sunday night as crowds gathered in their thousands to celebrations the local football team winning the Allsvenskan title.
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Society: 15 Sep 11
An elk drunk from eating fermented apples in southern Sweden ended its binge by making off with a family's swing set and hiding it in the woods.
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National: 12 Sep 11
A 58-year-old man has been sentenced to four years imprisonment after forgetting a bag containing almost four kilogrammes of illicit drugs in his local supermarket.
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Society: 7 Sep 11
A drunken elk desperate for just one more mouthful of fermenting apples lost its balance in the attempt, leaving it stuck in an apple tree in western Sweden.
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Society: 29 Aug 11
The captain of Räkbåten Tor, a vessel completing one of the last shrimp cruises of the summer season, is suspected of being drunk at the helm after guiding the ship onto an island in Lake Mälaren near Stockholm on Saturday.
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National: 27 Aug 11
In the second case of its kind in recent months, a man from Småland in southern Sweden has been fined for making Nazi salutes shouting ”Heil Hitler”.
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Business & Money: 22 Aug 11
Drunken Swedes can now record their boozed-up antics with a new iPhone app launched on Monday by a subsidiary of the country's state-owned alcohol monopoly.
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Lifestyle: 19 Aug 11
Gobbling crayfish is a 500 year old tradition in Sweden but the annual August crayfish parties can be a minefield for a first-timer. Contributor Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius advises on how to slurp like a native.
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National: 3 Aug 11
A Swedish court of appeal has ruled that a woman who was penetrated by a grilling fork in a sexual attack is not a victim of rape because she wasn't drunk enough at the time of the incident.
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Lifestyle: 21 Jul 11
As more and more Swedes roll up their sleeves and trouser legs to get tattoos, contributor Emy Gelb takes a look at what inspires them to let their bodies become walking works of art.
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Society: 17 Jul 11
Cannabis use is increasing sharply in Sweden, particularly among young men in larger cities, and a government initiative to combat this is now in the works.
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Lifestyle: 5 Jul 11
Ever wondered what a small Swedish town looks like when 50,000 music lovers invade its streets? Contributor Caroline Bursell finds out as she joins the throngs of festival-goers at Sweden's Borlänge Peace & Love festival 2011.
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Society: 5 Jul 11
The percentage of Swedish 15-year-olds who drink alcohol has dropped to the lowest level in decades, and cigarette smoking among teens is also on the decline, according to a Swedish newspaper report.
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Education: 25 Jun 11
Thousands of schoolchildren across the country are regularly skipping classes as the problem of truancy grows, according to a new report.
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Society: 25 Jun 11
Midsummer came and went amid the usual flurry of accidents and drunkenness, but with few serious incidents for police to deal with around the country.
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Lifestyle: 22 Jun 11
Midsummer is approaching - but what are we celebrating and why do Swedes celebrate the way they do? The Local explains.
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Sport: 17 Jun 11
The Malmö FF football club has been fined 150,000 kronor ($23,000) by the Swedish Football Federation for allowing a supporter to run on the pitch and attack a player from visiting Helsingborg last month.
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National: 11 Jun 11
The start of the summer holiday season in Sweden was marked with an unusually high amount of criminal activity according to the police.
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Society: 3 Jun 11
A Swedish sailor called sea rescue services on Thursday morning believing his wife had fallen overboard when in fact she had never been on the boat.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 May 11
As Swedish football reacts to the latest in a string of hooligan incidents, The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson looks back at the case of the “drunk Dane” who attacked the referee in a Euro 2008 qualifier and wonders if any lessons have been learnt.
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Society: 17 May 11
An actor performing at a theatre in Malmö in southern Sweden on Friday got so drunk that he fell asleep on stage.
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Society: 6 May 11
Three drunken and uniformed members of Sweden's National Home Guard have been charged for attacking a group of campers in the forests of eastern Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 4 May 11
Beer blogger Darren Packman offers his thoughts on seven new beers set to hit the shelves in select Systembolaget stores in May, as Sweden's state-run liquor monopoly does its part to mark the arrival of spring.
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National: 1 May 11
Police in Uppsala responded to reports of rape, assault and drunken behaviour as they struggled to contain revellers during chaotic Walpurgis Night celebrations in the city on Saturday.
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Sport: 20 Apr 11
Teemu Selänne aka "The Finnish Flash" has confirmed rumours that despite being one his country's most faithful servants on the ice, he has been bearing a terrible tattooed secret since a drunken stag night over a decade ago.
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National: 14 Apr 11
Pedaling a scooter forward with your feet while inebriated constitutes drunken driving, Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled.
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Society: 8 Apr 11
Three out of four young Swedes are sober when they have sex for the first time, a new study shows.
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Politics: 4 Apr 11
Sweden's Riksdag backs the banning of texting while driving and the introduction of a hands-free requirement while making calls at the wheel.
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National: 28 Mar 11
An off-duty, drunk police officer has been charged with assaulting a football supporter in a Stockholm metro station last October.
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Lifestyle: 24 Mar 11
In this month's column on what some enthusiasts like to call the amber nectar, blogger Darren Packman reminds us that brews come in all colours and that staying loyal to one is like having a cheeseburger for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Society: 9 Mar 11
Intoxicated Swedes apprehended by police would be placed in sobriety centres rather than jail cells, according to a forthcoming government report on dealing with substance abuse.
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Society: 27 Feb 11
A test of a knife-proof vest by two drunken men at a party in southern Sweden late Saturday afternoon didn't go according to plan.
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National: 26 Feb 11
A drunken gunman held two children hostage on Friday night in a flat in Timrå, in northern Sweden. After a long police negotiation the gunman gave himself up.
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Society: 18 Feb 11
Despite 55 serving police officers being caught drink driving over the past five years, only one has lost his job, statistics published on Thursday showed.
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Science & Technology: 18 Feb 11
After almost three months of boiling their water supplies following a parasite outbreak, the residents of Östersund in northern Sweden have been told that their tap water is once again safe to drink.
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Society: 17 Feb 11
A 28-year-old man is facing drunk driving charges after he drove to a police station in Malmö in southern Sweden to pick up his friend who had been arrested for driving under the influence earlier that day.
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Politics: 7 Feb 11
Sweden Democrat MP William Petzäll is taking a timeout from his political duties after police found him early Sunday morning stumbling drunk in the stairwell outside an apartment he shared with his ex-girlfriend.
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National: 25 Jan 11
The increasing number of rejected asylum seekers being housed in a local jail has prompted the chief of police in Gothenburg to consider reporting himself to Sweden’s Parliamentary Ombudsman.
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Society: 14 Jan 11
A Swedish flasher unbuttoned his trench coat in front of the wrong person in the southern Swedish city of Malmö on Thursday night.
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Society: 12 Jan 11
A 29-year-old man from northern Sweden has been charged with drunken driving despite not having been behind the wheel when officers stopped the vehicle.
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Society: 1 Jan 11
Drunkenness aplenty, but not much blood, was Gotland's police station's summary of the events of New Year's Eve, a summary that seems to apply for much of Sweden.
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National: 26 Dec 10
Swedish police officers have had a busy Christmas night, with plenty of drunkenness and assault reported throughout the country.
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Lifestyle: 23 Dec 10
Jellied pigs’ feet, Donald Duck and a goat-riding gnome may not be your typical global Christmas symbols, but for Swedes they’re all part of the fun, writes Jennifer Heape.
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Society: 19 Dec 10
A woman in eastern Sweden awoke with a start recently to find a strange man lying next to her in bed licking her arm.
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Education: 22 Nov 10
An internet video featuring naked Swedish high school students frolicking with farm animals and riding tractors on school property is no big deal, according to the school’s principal.
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Society: 12 Nov 10
The Social Democrats have proposed that all new cars sold in Sweden be equipped with ignition locks to prevent a vehicle from starting if the driver is intoxicated.
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Politics: 5 Nov 10
William Hahne, the press secretary of the Sweden Democrats youth league, caused embarrassment for the Swedish delegation to the Nordic Council meeting in Reykjavik this week after getting drunk and racially abusing a bartender.
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Society: 1 Nov 10
A 51-year-old Swedish man has been acquitted of drunken driving charges after a court couldn’t rule out the possibility that the man was asleep when he got behind the wheel.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 10
On the eve of the US mid-term elections, libertarian Swedish commentator and author Fredrik Segerfeldt takes a look at the evolution of Swedes' attitudes toward the United States – with some help from one of Sweden’s most revered singer-songwriters.
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Society: 21 Oct 10
A first-year university student has been fined and issued a suspended sentence for trespassing, as well as ordered to pay damages after he mistakenly entered the wrong home in southern Sweden following a night of heavy drinking.
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Society: 16 Oct 10
A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of assault after a stage guard had part of his ear bitten off during a concert by US hard-rock legends W.A.S.P. in Örebro, Sweden on Friday.
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Politics: 6 Oct 10
Fredrik Reinfeldt's newly installed minority government wasted no time in setting to work, announcing plans on Wednesday to present 77 motions in the next three months.
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Society: 10 Sep 10
A woman who is facing charges of aggravated drink driving has claimed that she felt forced to flee a summer get-together with friends when the host announced that group sex would be following the coffee.
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National: 8 Sep 10
Stockholm public transport operator SL will install ignition locks on all of its buses within the next two years, ensuring drivers who have been drinking can't start their vehicles.
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Lifestyle: 3 Sep 10
Taking inspiration from comments make by readers of The Local, US exile Doug Lansky offers up ten more distinctly Swedish habits which often give expats plenty to talk about.
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Politics: 3 Sep 10
A blog post by a local Sweden Democrat politician espousing the view that black Africans are genetically programmed to rape children has resulted in him leaving the party.
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National: 31 Aug 10
The Ukrainian captain of a Dutch ship that ran aground this month near the southwestern Swedish port of Helsingborg was on Monday sentenced to one month in prison for "aggravated drunkenness at sea," news agency TT reported on Monday.
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National: 27 Aug 10
The captain of a Dutch ship which ran aground off the west coast port of Helsingborg this month was on charged with "aggravated drunkenness at sea" by a Swedish court on Thursday.
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National: 16 Aug 10
A Swedish motorcycle rider stopped by Finnish police doing 233 kilometres/hour on the motorway has been held on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol and driving without a licence or registration.
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National: 14 Aug 10
The skipper of a Dutch freight ship has been formally charged with aggravated drunkenness and carelessness in sea traffic after the vessel ran aground off the south coast of Sweden on Friday.
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National: 13 Aug 10
A Dutch freighter has run aground off the coast of Helsingborg in southern Sweden, with the captain taken in for police questioning after he appeared drunk at the helm.
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National: 31 Jul 10
A man in his early twenties has been found guilty of child rape after impregnating a 12-year-old girl he brought home from a party in Tranås in southern Sweden in January.
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Society: 20 Jul 10
A patient at a detox treatment centre who received aftershave for Christmas was later taken to hospital after becoming intoxicated from drinking the present, which contained alcohol.
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Society: 16 Jul 10
Almost every second Swede has read or written mobile phone text messages while driving, according to a new study.
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National: 29 Jun 10
A guest at a McDonald's restaurant in Mora in central Sweden had part of his finger severed when the hatch at the drive-thru counter was slammed shut on him on Sunday evening.
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National: 26 Jun 10
Police in many parts of Sweden were fully occupied on Midsummer Eve dealing with everything from drunken fights to half naked men driving a lawnmower on the motorway.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"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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Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.
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