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February 14, 2012
Mälaren
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Disasters, disease top list of threats to Sweden
Science & Technology: 30 Dec 11
Floods, infectious disease, forest fires, and cyberattacks are among several threats to Sweden identified by the country's Civil Contingencies Authority.
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Abba great unwilling to be Stockholm 'billboard'
Society: 16 Dec 11
Abba founder Benny Andersson wants Arlanda airport to take down a giant picture of him welcoming visitors to Stockholm, following a decision to revamp a local landmark leaving him unwilling to be associated with the city.
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Stockholm council ignores Abba great's pleas on Slussen renewal
Society: 13 Dec 11
Despite protests by citizens and celebrities, including former Abba star Benny Andersson, Stockholm’s city council voted on Monday night to move forward with a massive renovation of the city’s Slussen area.
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Abba great hints at reunification gig
Society: 12 Dec 11
Abba-founder Benny Andersson has hinted that he would be willing to reunite the famed Swedish super group to help save a beloved - albeit urine soaked -Stockholm landmark.
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Halloween revelers keep Swedish police busy
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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Swedish castles with sizzle: a sampler
Lifestyle: 13 Oct 11
Sweden is home to hundreds of castles featuring tales of bloodthirsty royals, quirky millionaires, adult-rated films, and other untold secrets. Check out The Local's selection of some of the country's more memorable manors.
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Drunk shrimp boat skipper parks on island
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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Sweden hit by rise in tick-borne encephalitis
Science & Technology: 27 Aug 11
There has been a sharp increase in the number of reported cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Sweden this year, according to new figures of infection disease authorities.
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Sweden = United States: Google Translate
Science & Technology: 24 Aug 11
Despite constant improvements, Google Translate continues to lose its way – often in laughable ways – when it comes to translating certain place names from Swedish to English.
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Man arrested for murdering mother
National: 21 Jul 11
A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his 73-year-old mother in a summer house on an island in Lake Mälaren in eastern Sweden late on Wednesday night.
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Sweden's five weirdest hotels
Travel: 15 Jul 10
Underwater, in the treetops or Frodo-style: The Local gives the lowdown on some of the oddest places in Sweden to spend a night.
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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.
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Stockholm's best party is on the water
Travel: 30 Jun 10
If you're looking for a spectacular place for a corporate lunch, an intimate wedding or to dance until dawn, the best place to look is out to the water, writes Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius.
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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.
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Man drowns in central Stockholm sluice
National: 1 Jun 10
A man in his forties is thought to have died after having been sucked into the lock at Slussen in central Stockholm on Tuesday morning.
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Stockholm police issue melting ice alert
National: 14 Mar 10
Two walkers fell through melting ice on Lake Mälaren in central Stockholm yesterday as warmer temperatures and underwater currents prompted police to issue a melting ice alert.
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Teenager found dead in Stockholm shaft
National: 4 Mar 10
A 13-year-old boy was found dead on Wednesday evening in a 30 metre deep ventilation shaft by Slussen in central Stockholm.
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Snow halts trains in southern Sweden
National: 14 Feb 10
Winter doesn’t necessarily come as a surprise in northerly Sweden. But unusually low temperatures and heavy snowfalls continue to set the agenda and disrupt traffic timetables.
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Citizen protests block hotel expansion in heritage town
National: 7 Feb 10
An exclusive hotel in ancient Sigtuna is denied permission to expand after vigorous citizen protests. The town is regarded as a national heritage.
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Baltic bliss: boating in the Stockholm archipelago
Travel: 14 Sep 09
Having lived for some time in a city so dominated by waterways and islands, Alannah Eames decides it's high time to take the plunge and join the boat set.
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EU gives failing grade to eight Swedish beaches
Society: 12 Jun 09
The water at eight Swedish bathing areas failed to meet European water quality standards last year, according an annual report from the European Commission.
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What's on in Sweden: May 22 - 28
Lifestyle: 20 May 09
What's on in Sweden: Ingmar Bergman theatre festival in Stockholm; International performance art in Gothenburg; Ghostface Killah and Funda Arar in Malmö/Lund.
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Sweden rules 'gender-based' abortion legal
Science & Technology: 12 May 09
Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped.
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From midnight sun to electric eels: The Swedish Golf Experience
Lifestyle: 5 May 09
Author and golf enthusiast Gene Oberto bisects the fairways of the nation in this above par guide to the golf courses of Sweden.
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Winner chosen for Stockholm's New Slussen project
Society: 17 Apr 09
Representatives from the city of Stockholm on Friday announced the winning design for a planned redesign of the city’s Slussen transit hub.
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Enjoying bourgeois buns in the home of functionalist architecture
Analysis & Opinion: 26 Mar 09
There's no better place in Stockholm to savour croissants and cappucino than Petite France, an award-winning cafe and bakery located on the ground floor of Sweden's most Utopian apartment block, writes Jeanne Rudbeck.
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Heavy snow catches Sweden off guard
Science & Technology: 11 Mar 09
Heavy snow took drivers in parts of southern and central Sweden by surprise on Tuesday, causing more than 100 accidents in Stockholm county alone.
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Man dies as snowmobile goes through the ice
National: 18 Jan 09
A 65-year-old man died as a result of his snowmobile crashing through thin ice on a lake near Rättvik in central Sweden on Saturday evening. One of several accidents across the country over the weekend.
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Destination of the week: Sigtuna
Travel: 4 Dec 08
Just a short journey from the capital, the pretty medieval town of Sigtuna is one of Sweden's historic gems, writes Jennifer Heape.
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Deadly weekend for Swedish boaters
National: 3 Nov 08
Boating accidents in Sweden claimed three lives at the weekend, while the search continues for the fourth member of the crew of a boat that sank in Lake Mälaren on Friday near Västerås.
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Search resumes for missing men
National: 1 Nov 08
Västmanland police have resumed the search for two men missing, feared drowned, in Lake Mälaren near Västerås. The men have been missing since being involved in a boating accident on Friday.
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Two feared drowned in boating accident
National: 31 Oct 08
Rescue workers have described as "non-existent" the chances of saving the lives of two men missing after a boating accident in central Sweden.
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Mushroom war marked by cunning and subterfuge
Lifestyle: 14 Aug 08
With chanterelle season upon us, it's time again for the annual funghi wars that help keep country life interesting, writes migrant mushroom worshipper Rose Kemp.
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'Water war' planned for Stockholm's Old Town
Society: 7 Aug 08
A 'water war' pitting the might of northern Stockholm against southern Stockholm is being planned for 08 day, which falls on Friday. 7,000 people have answered the call to arms from Facebook's 'Luther Blisset'.
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It’s the season for blood-sucking ticks
Society: 12 Jul 08
Damp weather means that ticks are especially active.
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A shore thing: Swedish lakes
Lifestyle: 12 Jun 08
A keen wildlife watcher and hobby angler, René Rice falls hook, line and sinker for Sweden's watery charms.
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Swedish sun is summer's star attraction
Lifestyle: 28 May 08
He may not be able to back it up with hard science, but David Bartal is willing to wager that Sweden has probably the best sunshine in the world.
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Birka - A day trip into the Viking past
Travel: 13 May 08
The Local’s Faisal Enayat Khan joins the tourists on board the MS Victoria and sails out into the Stockholm’s archipelago to the island of Birka to put the Swedish capital’s ‘Beauty on Water’ theory to the test.
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Viking women had sexy style
Society: 11 Feb 08
Viking women dressed in a much more provocative manner than previously believed, new research has found.
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Bold new hotel offers rooftop pool and design delights
Lifestyle: 5 Feb 08
Charlotte West has had a snoop around the new Clarion Hotel Sign, which opens its doors to the public this week.
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Viking clash: Danes and Swedes battle to be biggest
Lifestyle: 18 Oct 07
When Stockholm's Mayor donned a t-shirt proclaiming the city 'Capital of Scandinavia', the reaction from the neighbours was predictably indignant. Daniel Boman looks at how Stockholm and Copenhagen are battling to prove who's biggest and best.
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Daring bathing house stirs Stockholmers' emotions
Lifestyle: 28 Jun 07
Plans to build a striking new bathing house and hotel on Lake Mälaren in the middle of Stockholm are stirring up emotions in the city. For some, the proposal is a welcome injection of modern architecture; others say it will be a blot on the city's historic landscape. Kathleen Harman reports.
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Chinese Golden Temple moves to Sweden
Society: 9 Apr 07
Long before the days of Ikea, Chinese authorities flatpacked a temple and sent it to Chicago. Now the ready-to-assemble Golden Temple of Chengde has a new home – the medieval Swedish town of Sigtuna.
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Recharge with a Swedish winter weekend
Travel: 15 Dec 06
Is the darkness of winter getting you down? Time to recharge those flickering energy reserves. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius has top tips for winter breaks near Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.
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Man not guilty of pregnant Kenyan's killing
National: 14 Nov 06
A 35-year-old man charged with killing a pregnant Kenyan woman in Stockholm earlier this year has been found not guilty of the crime. The evidence was insufficient, the court said.
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"Serious" climate threat to Sweden
Society: 1 Nov 06
Sweden faces "serious and concrete" threats from climate change, a new government report shows. Major lakes will flood more often and with more severe consequences. "Don't panic," environment minister Andreas Carlgren tells the public.
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The best restaurant in Sweden - official
Travel: 1 Sep 06
Only one restaurant in Sweden enjoys the accolade of two Michelin stars and that is Edsbacka Krog. Louis Roper reports on a true gastronomic experience - in the unlikely surroundings of Sollentuna.
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Pregnant woman's body found in lake
National: 2 Aug 06
The body of a pregnant woman has been found in Lake Mälaren, near Stockholm. We can't tell how old she was, because the body's too decomposed, say police.
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Climate change 'means flooding for west Sweden'
Society: 9 Jun 06
Rising global temperatures will make flooding more likely in western Sweden, but other parts of the country could see the risk of floods drop, according to new research.
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Ice death rescue effort slammed
National: 2 Jun 06
A report has said major mistakes were made in rescue efforts to save ice skaters who fell through Lake Mälaren in January. Two skaters died in the incident.
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Two die after weekend skating accident
National: 30 Jan 06
Two people have now died after a group of a dozen ice skaters fell through the ice of Mälaren, the lake stretching west from Stockholm, on Saturday.
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Traffic chaos as boat rams bridge
National: 14 Oct 05
What happens when the biggest crane barge in Sweden crashes into one of the busiest stretches of motorway in Sweden? Chaos, that's what.
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Stolen Rembrandt recovered by Danish police
National: 16 Sep 05
Four men are arrested in Copenhagen as they try to offload a 37 million dollar self-portrait of the Dutch master, stolen from Stockholm's National Museum in a spectacular heist five years ago.
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Stockholm Syndrome: Rush hour madness
Analysis & Opinion: 8 Sep 05
Our Stockholm Syndrome correspondent has a close call on one of the city's blue buses and finds out that Swedes on public transport have a more immediate fear than terrorism.
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Carl Gustaf: US catastrophe is a wake-up call
National: 2 Sep 05
Sweden's king says that the carnage wreaked by Hurricane Katrina is clear evidence of global climate change and that it is time to "think the unthinkable".
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Drinking water alarms in Stockholm and Norrland
National: 20 May 05
Tranquilisers in the capital's tap water and arsenic in the wells of Piteå - but no discernible affect on the respective populations. Yet. Stockholm Vatten try to calm fears caused by a bit of ultra-sensitive measuring equipment.
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Climate researchers warn of Stockholm floods
National: 4 Dec 04
Stockholm's proximity to water is one of its greatest assets. But as average temperatures and rainfall sneak up, could it become the city's greatest nightmare?
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E.coli on the attack in Gothenburg
Science & Technology: 6 Aug 04
A dramatic rise in the nasty tick disease TBE, the mystery of stomach ulcers is revealed, and food poisoning strikes at a football tournament. Insert your own joke about the players' dazzling runs.
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Grubby Sweden
Society: 28 May 04
Stockholmers are troubled by litter, graffiti, and arsenic, while Gothenburg council thinks it's found the roof of all evil.
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
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 »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
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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