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Sweden unveils new 'themed' coin designs

Business & Money: 11 Sep 12
The new designs for three Swedish coins, including the introduction of a 2-kronor coin, were unveiled by the Riksbank on Tuesday, with the coins set to hit circulation in 2016. READ »

Sweden shows off Garbo, Bergman banknotes

Business & Money: 24 Apr 12
Sweden's Riksbank on Tuesday released the long-awaited designs of new banknotes featuring the likes of Greta Garbo, Ingmar Bergman, Astrid Lindgren, and other cultural giants of the 20th century. READ »

Sexy Volvo, clever Saab, and Swedish massage

Lifestyle: 13 Mar 12
The Local catches up with James May, host of the hit British car show Top Gear, to learn which Swedish cars are driven by yummy mummies, why he opted not to buy Saab for £1 and his stance on the elk-moose debate. READ »

Volvo wagon Sweden's 'biggest film star'

Society: 20 Jan 12
When naming the Swedish model most often seen on the silver screen, many might guess Greta Garbo. But the correct answer is actually the rather unassuming Volvo 240 station wagon, according to a new ranking. READ »

Wilderness, shopping and blondes shape Sweden's image abroad

National: 22 Jul 11
When foreigners are prompted to share what they think of Sweden their thoughts wander to the great outdoors, shopping, snow and beautiful women, according to a new survey from VisitSweden. READ »

Ingmar Bergman to adorn new Swedish banknote

Business & Money: 6 Apr 11
Sweden's Riksbank on Wednesday announced the new faces to adorn the country's notes and coins, including a celebrated film director, a former UN secretary-general and a children's author. READ »

Extreme politics and Gus Van Sant in focus at Stockholm Film Festival

Lifestyle: 17 Nov 10
As the 21st edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival opens this week, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson looks at some of the juiciest cinematic morsels on offer. READ »

Summer Rail Destinations: Stockholm

Travel: 11 Jun 10
Sponsored article: The antiquity of Gamla Stan, the forests of Djurgården, the cliffs of Södermalm and of course the surrounding blue sea: all these elements combine to help make Stockholm one of the world’s most beautiful cities. READ »

Swede wanted in bribery case arrested in LA

National: 2 Nov 09
Police in Los Angeles have arrested a Swedish businessman wanted on charges of attempting to bribe a Stockholm police chief. READ »

Death in the forest

Lifestyle: 25 Aug 08
Mortal sins of fashion abound as David Bartal takes a trip to a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the suburbs of Stockholm. READ »

Russian owns Sweden's priciest home

Society: 29 Dec 07
The most expensive house sold in Sweden in 2007 was snapped up by a Russian telecoms boss for nearly 45 million kronor. READ »

How much is that dildo in the window?

Society: 29 Nov 07
A Stockholm department store window display has got the tourists chuckling. READ »

The store that's gone from Garbo to grotesque

Lifestyle: 14 Nov 07
Cardigans singer Nina Persson has been helping to turn Stockholm's most traditional department store into a hip, modern fashion house and art gallery - complete with severed eyes and distorted heads. Charlotte West checks out the new PUB. READ »

Deadly impressive: Stockholm's woodland cemetery

Lifestyle: 24 Aug 07
Tipping Point: Kathleen Harman has always enjoyed a good cemetery, so was immediately drawn to Stockholm's Skogskyrkogården, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. What she found was a work of stunning Swedish simplicity. READ »

Digitally digging for Stockholm graves

Lifestyle: 5 Apr 06
Wondering where your distant Swedish relatives are buried? Or perhaps where Ingrid Bergman was laid to rest? Well, now you can dig through over half a million graves in the Swedish capital - digitally. READ »

Garbo letters stolen

National: 9 Dec 05
Letters and postcards from Swedish film icon Greta Garbo have been stolen from Sweden's Military Archives. There has been a breakdown in our routines, says the archives' security chief. READ »

Garbomania at the Swedish Film Institute

Lifestyle: 19 Sep 05
The Swedish Film Institute is joining in the Greta Garbo centenary celebrations over the next month, with a complete programme of her films. READ »

Sweden celebrates Garbo centenary

Lifestyle: 16 Sep 05
Greta Garbo, the mythical Hollywood diva adored by millions, came from humble origins in Sweden where she grew up as Greta Gustafsson, whose father was a toilet cleaner and mother a seamstress. READ »

Cannes features Bergman documentary trilogy

Lifestyle: 16 May 05
Three documentaries about the Greatest Living Film Maker shed some revealing light on the inspiration and thinking behind Ingmar Bergman's movies. READ »

Abba?s Agnetha speaks out: ?I?m no recluse?

Lifestyle: 18 Dec 04
‘The blonde one’ from Abba has given her first proper television interview since the eighties. Agnetha Fältskog told a Swedish interviewer that people have got the wrong idea about her. READ »

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