The following articles have been tagged with "Norrköping":
Business & Money: 15 May 13
Swedish retailer Coop has refuted complaints by US sneaker brand Converse that Coop stores are selling unauthorized pirated copies of the iconic footwear.
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Business & Money: 10 May 13
Sweden's Finance Minister Anders Borg has hit back after the shadow finance minister slammed him for voicing opinions on monetary policy.
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Business & Money: 28 Apr 13
A planned strike by Swedish public sector workers was called off on Sunday following a pay deal between employers and the unions.
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Society: 23 Apr 13
The eastern Sweden resident who on Saturday won over 237 million kronor ($36.2 million) in the country's biggest ever lottery windfall has come forward to collect the winnings.
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Science & Technology: 9 Apr 13
Anders and Benjamin, two wild seal pups threatened with being put down according to Swedish law, will likely be able to remain at the Swedish zoo that has cared for them since they were found in the woods over Easter.
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National: 6 Apr 13
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that two seals found over Easter and taken in by the Kolmården animal park should either be returned to the wild or put down, but Kolmården refused to comply.
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Sport: 28 Mar 13
With play in Sweden's top football league set to kick off at the weekend, contributor Nic Townsend offers the lowdown on each team and their chances of taking home the 2013 Allsvenskan title.
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Society: 11 Mar 13
A swingers' club in eastern Sweden has been forced to abandon its attempt to set a new Swedish record after a fire destroyed the building that housed the "erotic oasis".
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National: 2 Mar 13
Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a man outside a pre-school in Norrköping in central Sweden on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 5 Feb 13
Snow and slick roads made for treacherous driving in central Sweden, with a number of accidents leaving some major roadways blocked on Tuesday morning.
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Science & Technology: 3 Feb 13
Seven members of the same family have been charged in connection with the blackmail of a man over a sex chat.
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Science & Technology: 22 Dec 12
A 50-kilometre long traffic jam developed on a major Swedish motorway on Saturday, with blizzard-like conditions causing accidents and warnings for Swedes to delay their Christmas travel plans.
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Society: 15 Dec 12
A charity in Norrköping, eastern Sweden, has come under criticism for handing out cigarettes to the homeless and other vulnerable people.
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Science & Technology: 17 Nov 12
A virtual post mortem has revealed that the Gebelein Man, a 5,500-year-old Egyptian mummy, was probably stabbed in the back with a sharp weapon.
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National: 24 Oct 12
The preliminary investigation against two nurses, under suspicion of maltreating patients at a care home in central Sweden, has been dropped despite allegations that one pressed vomit down a patient’s throat.
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Society: 23 Oct 12
As beer commercials filmed in Sweden featuring US comedian Will Ferrell continue to make waves on YouTube, a Stockholm-based director involved with the project sheds light on the guerrilla marketing campaign.
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Science & Technology: 16 Oct 12
An ex-employee from an animal park in southern Sweden has spoken out about how zookeepers mistreated the animals, on some occasions beating them to death to save money on veterinary care.
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Society: 23 Sep 12
Over 1,000 dance enthusiasts took to the streets of Stockholm on Saturday in protest against Sweden's "absurd, obsolete and offensive" dance license law.
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Science & Technology: 17 Sep 12
A heart patient died after ambulance drivers who received the high priority call just as their shift was ending decided to swing by the station to change drivers, delaying their arrival to the patient's home.
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Society: 2 Sep 12
New York native Daniel Peltz has hatched a plan to collect the sweat of Swedish glass-blowers and sell it as a perfume to tourists visiting his adoptive home.
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Science & Technology: 28 Aug 12
A lesbian couple in southern Sweden has reported the county council to the Swedish Equality Ombudsman, for making them pay 3,000 kronor ($457) for two inseminations.
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Business & Money: 24 Aug 12
A Swedish couple has received a 36,000 kronor ($5,450) payout from budget airline Ryanair after being left stranded in Brussels in 2006 and forced to make their own way home.
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Study in Sweden: 10 Aug 12
With competition in the professional jobs market tighter than ever, gaining international experience as part of your degree can help give you that crucial extra edge. Linköping University is one Swedish institution proving popular with exchange students.
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National: 18 Jun 12
Authorities at the Kolmården zoo have put a stop to any close contact with their park's wolves after a female zookeeper was mauled and killed by a pack of wolves on Sunday.
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National: 17 Jun 12
A female employee of the Kolmården zoo in central Sweden was mauled to death in the wolf enclosure on Sunday morning.
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National: 14 Jun 12
A 15-year-old boy in eastern Sweden has been charged with child rape after allegedly forcing a 13-year-old girl to sex after contacting her and her friend on Facebook.
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Science & Technology: 28 May 12
A 15-year-old boy from Norrköping in eastern Sweden has been reported to police for allegedly "face raping" another teen, an increasingly common phenomenon among young Swedes.
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National: 9 May 12
A fifteen–year-old girl who was visiting Sweden’s Kolmården Safari park a few weeks ago had to be rushed to hospital after one of the wolves suddenly attacked her and bit into her thigh.
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National: 29 Apr 12
Two men were gunned down in central Norrköping on Saturday night, with one of them still in a critical condition on Sunday morning.
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Society: 20 Apr 12
Police officers in southeastern Sweden raided a Norrköping flat, freeing a Chihuahua puppy, which had been kidnapped by potential buyers last week.
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National: 31 Mar 12
A family of elk have been causing consternation for police and motorists alike on a stretch of Sweden’s main motorway, with hunters set to be deployed in a bid to entice the animals away from danger.
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Lifestyle: 28 Mar 12
This Saturday the Allsvenskan, Sweden’s premier football league, starts a new season. Contributor Nic Townsend takes a look at each team and their prospects for 2012.
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National: 5 Mar 12
When 12-year-old Oscar rang the emergency services to alert them of a fire which ended up killing a 5-year-old girl, he was told to stop making prank calls.
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Business & Money: 28 Feb 12
Swepiracy, one of Sweden's largest file sharing sites, has been closed down following a coordinated raid by authorities in Sweden and the Netherlands.
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Society: 24 Feb 12
Leader pages across Sweden devoted space on Friday to congratulating Crown Princess Victoria and Sweden's newborn princess, while many also expressed the view that she should be able to choose her own path.
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Business & Money: 27 Jan 12
A Swedish language preservation network has blasted plans by the "Twin Cities of Sweden" to market their common metropolitan area using the name of a small town in central Texas in the United States.
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Society: 26 Jan 12
Emergency crews were called to a hotel in central Sweden on Wednesday morning to help free an employee who had become trapped behind a bed following a staff party.
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Society: 6 Dec 11
A Swedish woman was shocked when an ornamental Santa Claus she had recently bought turned out to have more than presents in his sack, revealing a sheltering snake curled up inside.
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Society: 7 Nov 11
A major power outage struck parts of south eastern Sweden on Sunday evening after a rogue magpie had flown into a relay plant and caught on fire.
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Society: 26 Oct 11
Hundreds of restless Stockholmers gathered at Kulturhuset at midday on Tuesday for an hour's worth of grooving to work off those dull workday blues at Lunch Beat - the disco while you eat.
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Society: 23 Sep 11
Five people, two adults and three children, were rushed to hospital by ambulance on Friday after having been stung by wasps at a preschool in Norrköping in eastern Sweden.
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National: 25 Aug 11
A 47-year-old man has been sentenced to probation and fined the equivalent of 100 days pay for animal cruelty after kicking a Golden Retriever puppy to death.
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Society: 18 Aug 11
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria on Thursday expressed her gratitude to those who wished her well following news of her pregnancy, while newspapers across Sweden pondered the significance of the impending royal birth.
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Society: 30 Jul 11
A woman had one of her breasts removed in south central Sweden and was told after surgery that she did not have breast cancer. This makes it the nation’s third such case during July.
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National: 26 Jul 11
Delays in train services continue to affect travellers on key routes across Sweden, with disruption expected to last until Friday.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jul 11
Violent thunderstorms are the source of major headaches for train passengers in south-eastern Sweden. The weather has caused large disturbances in train schedules, which will likely continue all weekend.
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National: 20 Jul 11
Local authorities in Norrköping in eastern Sweden have elected not to report two assistant nurses suspected of maltreating elderly patients at a nursing home to the police.
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National: 8 Jul 11
The two assistant nurses charged with maltreatment of their elderly patients have been asked to leave their jobs again following a new investigation into the scandal-struck nursing home.
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National: 6 Jul 11
Two nurses at a nursing home in Norrköping, in central Sweden, harassed their patients both verbally and physically. The scandal was revealed in March, but the two nurses are already back at work, according to a local newspaper report.
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National: 4 Jul 11
A consignment of fenugreek seeds, from the batch believed to be the source of the EHEC infection in Germany and France, has been tracked to Sweden, according to food authorities.
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Science & Technology: 3 Jul 11
Flooded roads and railroads, closed stores, fires caused by lightning strikes, and thousands of homes left without power - a heavy thunderstorm left southern Sweden reeling from the chaos in its wake this weekend.
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National: 29 Jun 11
Three people were seriously injured in what police suspect may have been a gang-related shooting in Norrköping in eastern Sweden on Tuesday night.
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Science & Technology: 16 Jun 11
Around 50 dog owners and several dogs are believed to have been infected with the enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria following a dog show in eastern Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 31 May 11
The Swedish press has reacted critically to King Carl XVI Gustaf's denials of strip-club visits and had indirect contact with organised crime, arguing that he acted too late to quell the growing scandal.
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National: 24 May 11
Swedish air traffic could be affected when volcanic ash from Icelandic Grimsvötn reaches western Sweden on Tuesday afternoon, according to the country's Civil Aviation Administration.
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Education: 24 May 11
Swedish schools fail to properly utilise students' English language skills, acquired through the consumption of film and music, according to a report by the Schools Inspectorate.
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National: 11 May 11
An afternoon of fishing turned deadly on Tuesday after two men drowned in the St. Anna's archipelago outside of Söderköping in eastern Sweden.
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National: 14 Apr 11
Four men from the same family in eastern Sweden, accused of posing as children on the internet and blackmailing paedophiles, were remanded in custody on Thursday.
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Lifestyle: 1 Apr 11
April is here, which brings the start of the Swedish professional football season. With play set to kick off on Saturday, contributor Nic Townsend takes a look at which teams are expected to vie for the Allsvenskan title.
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Science & Technology: 5 Mar 11
Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren has demanded improved accuracy from Swedish meteorological agency SMHI, raising the bar to a minimum 85 percent accurate forecasts in a year.
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Society: 18 Feb 11
Sweden's population continued to grow at the end of 2010, despite a drop in immigration for the first time since 2004.
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Society: 9 Feb 11
A woman from Borås in western Sweden has filed a discrimination complaint against a health clinic after she was told to go back to Africa and get help from a medicine man for pain in her legs.
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National: 8 Feb 11
A five-year-old was left unnoticed in a snow drift for several hours at a pre-school in Norrköping in eastern Sweden, while a four-year-old boy managed to walk home by himself from a pre-school in central Gävle on Monday.
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Science & Technology: 28 Jan 11
A Ukrainian woman who sought a referral for an endocrinologist in Sweden was told to go back to Ukraine after expressing her frustrations to a nurse.
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Science & Technology: 26 Jan 11
Lead levels up to ten times above recommended levels have been found in the water from coffee vending machines in Sweden.
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Society: 25 Jan 11
A man who defecated on the floor of a shop in eastern Sweden has been sentenced to prison.
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National: 19 Jan 11
Two people were killed when a train slammed into a taxi in central Sweden on Wednesday, dragging the vehicle half a kilometre down the track following impact.
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Science & Technology: 14 Jan 11
A Siberian tiger cub at a Swedish zoo was bitten to death by an adult tiger on Monday, Kolmården Wildlife Park officials confirmed on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 8 Jan 11
Sweden's government weather agency reported on Friday that the ozone layer over southern Sweden reached its thickest levels at the end of last year, surpassing the previous record set in 1991.
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Politics: 30 Dec 10
After the arrests of five people on suspicion of planning a "Mumbai-style" attack on the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, the Swedish papers on Thursday argued that threats to the open society can not be met by draconian measures.
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National: 23 Dec 10
A new snowstorm pushing in through the south of Sweden, with more snow and winds forecast, has led to the cancellation of train services in some areas as operators are forced to prioritise key routes.
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Society: 8 Dec 10
Swedish glam rockers The Ark shocked their fans by announcing that they will disband after 20 years together at the end of their summer tour next year.
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National: 1 Dec 10
Problems continued for Sweden’s rail network a day after hundreds of passengers were evacuated from stranded trains in the east, with normal service not expected to resume until Wednesday afternoon.
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National: 30 Nov 10
Train service in eastern Sweden's Östergötland came to a grinding halt on Tuesday due to downed electrical wires in two separate places between Nörrköping and Mjölby.
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Society: 22 Nov 10
Children playing at the Busfabriken indoor playground in Norrköping in eastern Sweden on Friday were left shocked after they found a severed finger.
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National: 9 Nov 10
A young woman died in a car accident in western Sweden on Tuesday morning as snowfalls and strong winds hampered road conditions and caused widespread traffic problems.
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National: 1 Nov 10
A bomb threat which emptied the offices of a newspaper in Luleå in northern Sweden last week has been traced to the town’s police headquarters.
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Education: 22 Oct 10
A school in Linköping in central Sweden has reported an incident to police that culminated in a student using his mobile phone to film the attempted suicide of another boy at the school.
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National: 18 Oct 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied a residence permit to stay in Sweden, according to the National Migration Board.
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National: 8 Oct 10
The Bandidos, Hells Angels and other criminal motorcycle gangs have ramped up their expansion in Sweden, while at the same time gaining a foothold in Europe.
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Politics: 22 Sep 10
The Sweden Democrats hold the balance of power in 30 of Sweden's 290 municipal councils, the anti-racist magazine Expo revealed on Wednesday in a compilation of election results.
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National: 13 Sep 10
The high-speed X2000 train which collided with a backhoe near Kimstad in eastern Sweden on Sunday evening could have been travelling above the speed limit, accord to a police report.
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National: 12 Sep 10
The Swedish Accident Investigation Board is now investigating a train accident on Sunday night in which 18 people were injured, one seriously, in eastern Sweden.
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Society: 5 Sep 10
By refusing to perform circumcisions on boys who lack specific medical grounds for the operation, several county and regional health authorities in Sweden continue to contravene national guidelines on the procedure.
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Business & Money: 18 Aug 10
Fredrik Reinfeldt's Moderate Party wants to spend 3 billion kronor ($410 million) over the next three years on job coaching, work experience and training, creating over 31,000 new opportunities in 2011 and 2012, according to party estimates.
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Politics: 16 Aug 10
Security for Social Democratic leader Mona Sahlin has been tightened due to serious threats against her just over a month before elections, Swedish media reported on Monday.
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Travel: 11 Aug 10
A town in south-eastern Sweden has all that enthusiastic rock climbers could need - but until now relatively few climbers have known about it. A new project means all that could be about to change.
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National: 1 Aug 10
A 21-year-old woman was bitten by a wolf on Friday during a private guided tour at Kolmården wildlife park.
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Science & Technology: 27 Jul 10
Unsure of their actual number, authorities will now count how many porpoises there are in the Baltic Sea with the help of porpoise detectors that collect data from cetaecean sonar.
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Society: 26 Jul 10
A mother of 11 children sentenced to prison for alcohol smuggling and the illegal sale of alcohol is seeking a pardon to avoid jail time.
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Society: 26 Jul 10
Sweden has the longest waiting periods in the world from death to burial, resulting in a major space shortage at crematoriums. As a result, a crematorium has been forced to expand the freezers to make more room for the dead.
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National: 22 Jul 10
The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency (Kammarkollegiet) has stripped an interpreter of his license after learning he had misinterpreted during a murder trial due to his poor Swedish skills.
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National: 17 Jul 10
Two young moped riders took to their heels in the early hours of Saturday morning after crashing into a father and his two-year-old son on the outskirts of Norrköping.
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Lifestyle: 22 Jun 10
Norrköping hopes to raise its profile and become recognized as a European music capital after its recent success hosting the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition (WSIMC), writes Angela Hur.
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Society: 10 Jun 10
Police in Norrköping in eastern Sweden were sent on a wild goose chase on Wednesday after masked men were reported to have dragged a taxi driver from his car and sped off in an incident later revealed to be a birthday joke.
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National: 21 May 10
A Swedish appeals court has ruled that a Norrköping hotel was guilty of discriminating against a guest who was participating at a conference on ethnic discrimination at the time.
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Politics: 4 May 10
A total of 14 ministers, including Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, have embarked on a cross-country train trip to win support for the government ahead of September's election.
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National: 30 Apr 10
When police received a call about an ongoing robbery at a shopping centre in Norrköping in eastern Sweden they dismissed the report as stag night antics and declined to send a unit.
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National: 29 Apr 10
A 41-year-old woman in Norrköping has been indicted on charges of forgery and fraud after borrowing about 450,000 kronor ($62,000) in her best friend's name, of which she spent 50,000 kronor on breast surgery in Thailand.
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National: 20 Apr 10
Skavsta airport south of Stockholm is set to reopen on Tuesday, according to an update from the Civil Aviation Authority, while airports south of a line between Norrköping and Strömstad remain closed.
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