May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Northern_sweden":
National: 27 May 12
A 17-year-old Swede was lazing by the pool during a family holiday in Turkey last Tuesday when he was shot in the back.
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National: 26 May 12
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man in connection with the shooting of an Uzbek imam in northern Sweden in February.
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Education: 24 May 12
Teachers should be able to tolerate violence inflicted on them by students, but at the same time have scope for using force against unruly pupils, according to two recent Swedish court rulings.
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Business & Money: 23 May 12
Nearly 17 million foreign tourists visited Sweden in 2011, and almost all of them enjoyed their stay, according to a new report.
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National: 20 May 12
The house of a suspected paedophile was set ablaze on the night to Sunday, in what the police believe to be an arson attack.
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National: 20 May 12
Water levels are rising rapidly in the Sangis river in northern Sweden, and forecasters have now issued their highest warning, Class 3, for the Norrbotten area.
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Society: 18 May 12
A 29-year-old Swede, who staged his own kidnapping to blackmail his parents into giving him money, has been convicted and sentenced to ten months in prison.
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Society: 17 May 12
Swedish police on Wednesday launched a new search operation for a 26-year-old Czech man believed to have gone missing near Jokkmokk in northern Sweden after apparently abandoning his white Ford Mustang.
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Business & Money: 17 May 12
Swedish trade union Unionen has opened legal action against a firm from Piteå in northern Sweden on behalf of two employees fired after posting "threatening" comments against a manager on Facebook.
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National: 16 May 12
Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden.
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Society: 14 May 12
A 101-year-old woman fought back when a thief intruded into her home in northern Sweden, beating him over the head with a stick and frightening him from the house.
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Business & Money: 14 May 12
A growing trend in northern Sweden has seen cheap houses being snapped up by cannabis enthusiasts who use the houses as drug labs, with police shutting down another on Sunday.
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National: 14 May 12
Police remain baffled as to the whereabouts of the driver of white Ford Mustang rented in the Czech Republic and found abandoned near the side of a road in northern Sweden with the keys still inside.
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National: 11 May 12
Three teenage boys and a 76-year-old man are suspected for involvement in the rape of a 14-year-old boy in an elderly man's home in northern Sweden.
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National: 10 May 12
An entire herd of pregnant reindeer plummeted to their deaths off a 1,200 metre-high cliff in northern Sweden, leaving a grisly scene which left local herders stunned.
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National: 9 May 12
Sweden’s mystery “snow man” who survived for several months in a snowed–under car in the north of the country, kept a journal before isolating himself in the woods, in which he describes his desperate financial situation.
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Business & Money: 4 May 12
Australian beach-volleyballer and current Stockholm resident Johannah Rohkämper plans to survive in the Swedish capital on 15 kronor ($2.20) a day to raise awareness about global poverty.
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National: 30 Apr 12
A high-speed car crash late on Saturday night claimed the lives of two Swedish women from separate cars, in what witnesses have described may have been the result of a street race.
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National: 25 Apr 12
Dozens of people in northern Sweden have been charged after police busted a drug ring in which a 5-year-old girl had allegedly handed out hashish and taken payment.
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Society: 23 Apr 12
Disability Council members of a Swedish town have had enough of “lazy” drivers who park their cars in the disabled spaces, and want the erection of signs stating that laziness is not a recognized form of disability.
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Science & Technology: 21 Apr 12
Frost, cold and heavy snow falls surprised many on Saturday, but April showers are about to give way to warmer weather – with temperatures up to 20 degrees Celsius expected for the week ahead.
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National: 20 Apr 12
Police on Wednesday arrested two men in connection to a suspected gang rape of a 20-year-old man, carried out by three other men, in a home for asylum seekers in northern Sweden.
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Sport: 20 Apr 12
Brynäs IF were crowned champions of Sweden's top professional hockey league after defeating Skellefteå 2-0 in front of a jubilant home crowd in Gävle, eastern Sweden, on Thursday night.
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National: 17 Apr 12
On Tuesday it was the 25-year-old kidnapping victim’s turn to tell his version of events in the abduction drama which took place in Uppsala at the end of last year.
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Science & Technology: 17 Apr 12
A family in eastern Sweden was devastated to learn that their decesed loved-one would have to be autopsied after the funeral due to a hospital snafu.
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Society: 16 Apr 12
A man in northern Sweden, who was taking a rest-stop after 200 kilometres of driving, got a shock after he heard a meow coming from the trailer of his car.
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Education: 16 Apr 12
Earning college credit online is becoming increasingly popular in Sweden, where one in four university students now enrolls in a programme conducted over the internet.
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Society: 13 Apr 12
Unwanted Playboy magazines, recalcitrant seals and an enormous glue spill - The Local's News in Brief tackles the smaller offbeat news stories from around Sweden this week.
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National: 12 Apr 12
Two people accused of abducting the 25-year old son of a millionaire Swedish businessman denied all charges on the first day of their trial on Thursday, despite evidence in the form of a "mind map" detailing what could go wrong with the caper.
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National: 12 Apr 12
A local politician in northern Sweden, working as a disabled transporation driver, has been arrested after he was caught by police while molesting a disabled woman in his vehicle.
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Society: 10 Apr 12
A local official in northern Sweden was allowed to stay on the job for several weeks after it was revealed that he had been sending sex-themed text messages to a disabled woman.
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Society: 9 Apr 12
A 7-year-old Swedish boy spent several hours trapped inside a washing machine on Sunday after his mission to explore the inside of the device went awry.
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National: 5 Apr 12
Three people were charged on Thursday with drugging and kidnapping a 25-year-old student from a wealthy Swedish family and holding him prisoner for more than a week in what one of the suspects said was a "prank".
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Society: 4 Apr 12
A man who needed extra fuel for his snow-blower made the mistake of using a household vacuum cleaner to suck petrol from his car, causing the vacuum to explode and his car to catch on fire.
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Society: 3 Apr 12
A man and a woman in their sixties in northern Sweden have been charged after threatening a pregnant woman with a gun and physical violence when she tried to pee in their yard.
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Society: 2 Apr 12
Swedish porn mogul Berth Milton is set to be the subject of a forthcoming feature film billed as a cross between "The Godfather" and "Boogie Nights" that will lift the lid on the smut business's dirty secrets.
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National: 2 Apr 12
Police in northern Sweden are hunting for a woman who allegedly threw a pot of scalding hot water on her boyfriend in a fit of jealous rage.
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Science & Technology: 27 Mar 12
Health authorities in northern Sweden have come in for scathing critique for the death of 22-year-old Jill Söderberg, whose repeated calls for an ambulance were denied because she was "still talking".
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Society: 27 Mar 12
A woman from northern Sweden who had her mobile phone stolen at the weekend was later horrified to find naked pictures of herself posted on her own Facebook page.
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National: 27 Mar 12
A man in his early twenties has been arrested on suspicion of calling in a bomb threat on Monday that prompted the evacuation of the central train station in Östersund, northern Sweden.
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Business & Money: 26 Mar 12
A man and a woman from Sundsvall in northern Sweden are under suspicion for skimming bank cards of hundreds of thousands of kronor and buying postage stamps for the money.
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Sport: 26 Mar 12
Golf enthusiasts in Kiruna, northern Sweden, took to the “whites” this weekend to compete for the unofficial title of Sweden’s best snow golfer.
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National: 26 Mar 12
One woman is being held by police in northern Sweden after two women were found dead early Saturday morning in a flat in Piteå.
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National: 25 Mar 12
The man who attacked and injured a woman with a machete last week, flew into a rage once more on Saturday and went after the staff of the psychiatric clinic where he's currently being treated, according to local media.
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National: 24 Mar 12
A 24-year-old woman walking home through a town in northern Sweden was dragged into a city park by several men and raped in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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National: 23 Mar 12
A 27-year-old man from northern Sweden charged with raping a sleeping woman has defended himself by claiming he too was asleep at the time.
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National: 22 Mar 12
Two men who deliberately killed a wolverine by repeatedly running it over with their snowmobile faced a Swedish court on Wednesday over allegations of aggravated hunting crimes and animal cruelty.
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National: 19 Mar 12
A teacher at a Swedish school in Yemen was gunned down by an unknown perpetrator on Sunday in an attack claimed to be a response by al-Qaeda to what is perceived as Christian proselytising.
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Society: 19 Mar 12
A cash-strapped 18-year-old man was found leaving a sex shop in northern Sweden with a nipple chain destined for his girlfriend hidden in his pants.
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National: 18 Mar 12
Four young men reported missing after venturing out on a skiing trek in the vicinity of Gällivare in the mountains of northern Sweden have been found, police confirmed on Sunday afternoon.
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National: 16 Mar 12
A machete-wielding man went on a wild rampage in northern Sweden on Thursday, slashing a woman in the face before hijacking a minivan filled with students. He also reportedly sliced a dog, left in the stolen van.
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National: 15 Mar 12
A Norwegian Hercules C-130 military transport plane with five people on board lost contact on Thursday afternoon with the airport in northern Sweden where it was scheduled to land.
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Society: 12 Mar 12
A new high-speed railway in northern Sweden has already claimed the lives of 200 reindeer since it opened three months ago, forcing the farm owner to move to safer pastures.
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National: 11 Mar 12
Some 500 nursing students in northern Sweden are demanding higher entry wages, encouraging all nurses to turn down any job with a monthly salary of less than 24,000 kronor ($3,500).
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Sport: 7 Mar 12
A preschool in northern Sweden is teaching kids geography, maths – and respect – through a new curriculum inspired by the rough and tumble world of Sweden's top professional hockey league, the Elitserien.
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National: 7 Mar 12
A man who attacked his girlfriend with a samurai sword in northern Sweden last year has had his sentence reduced by the Swedish Supreme Court.
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Society: 4 Mar 12
The Swedish town of Ånge in northern Sweden held a welcome home celebration on Saturday for the Danielian/Arustamjan family who have returned to Sweden almost three months after being deported to Armenia.
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Education: 3 Mar 12
Sniffer dogs will be used to search schools in Landskrona municipality in southern Sweden after officials concluded that “attitudes toward narcotics have become more liberal”.
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National: 2 Mar 12
An 84-year-old man was stabbed to death in northern Sweden by a 19-year-old man who is claiming the older man was blackmailing him for sex.
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Business & Money: 2 Mar 12
A woman from northern Sweden was shocked to find out she would have to pay for a ticket for her 6-week-old son on a recent visit to the cinema.
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Science & Technology: 2 Mar 12
Many Swedes are still suffering from influenza, as the number of reported cases set another record high this week compared to the previous.
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Society: 1 Mar 12
A Swedish dog sledder's perceived racist insults ruined a recent reunion of Iranian graduates in Kiruna and left their Sweden-based host "ashamed" of inviting her friends to the country.
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Society: 1 Mar 12
A family of mischievous elk have been photographed breaking into a barn in northern Sweden, providing the farmer an unexpected explanation as to why his horse food kept disappearing.
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Society: 29 Feb 12
A man from northern Sweden has been fooled into paying large sums of cash to have money "laundered" after a trickster convinced him that having the stained notes cleaned would earn him millions.
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Society: 29 Feb 12
A man from northern Sweden was sent home from his local clinic with a handful of painkillers, after falling down the stairs of his house and smashing his head through a door.
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National: 28 Feb 12
The 44-year-old man who was trapped in his snowed-in car in Umeå, northern Sweden, for over two months is set to become the basis of a documentary by the Discovery Channel.
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National: 27 Feb 12
A 24-year-old man was found dead in his Kiruna apartment by visiting relatives on Sunday, in what local police have labelled as suspected murder.
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Society: 24 Feb 12
Princess Victoria delivered in terms of Swedish news this week and therefore many other stories slipped under the radar. Here is a selection of our favourites, from elk attacks to bird-brained intruders.
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National: 23 Feb 12
A 54-year-old imam was found shot in the head in Strömsund in northwestern Sweden on Wednesday in what police have classified as attempted murder.
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Society: 23 Feb 12
Staff at a hospital in northern Sweden are outraged after finding British photographers lurking in their corridors on the hunt for an exclusive snap of Sweden’s mystery “snow man”, a 44-year-old who survived in his car for two months without food.
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Society: 20 Feb 12
Whitney Houston was an “awful mother” who “chose drugs and death” and thus doesn’t deserve all the media attention being devoted to her death, a local Swedish politician has argued.
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National: 20 Feb 12
Many questions remain about how and why a 44-year-old Swedish man survived subzero temperatures in his snow-bound car for two months without any food.
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Science & Technology: 17 Feb 12
Swedish forecasters have issued warnings for the coming weekend, flagging for heavy snow across much of the country and as well as a heightened avalanche risk at Swedish ski resorts.
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Society: 14 Feb 12
A 29-year-old man in northern Sweden has been remanded into custody together with an accomplice after trying to extort money from his parents by pretending he had been kidnapped.
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Society: 13 Feb 12
Every second Swede is at risk of developing dementia, according to a new study from Umeå University, which concentrated on the 85+ population in northern Sweden.
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Education: 12 Feb 12
A 24-year-old teacher has been remanded into custody on suspicion of child rape after admitting that he had sexual relations with a number of teenage pupils.
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National: 12 Feb 12
A man has been arrested in Gävle in northern Sweden on suspicion of having stolen a 20-year-old's wallet while doling out an impromptu hug in an apparent copycat attack of a gang operating in Stockholm.
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Society: 11 Feb 12
A Swedish man was keeping 73 cats and two dogs in one small apartment, animal protection officers discovered to their horror. Urine, faeces and fur balls covered the apartment's floors, and several of the animals were inbred.
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National: 10 Feb 12
A doctor in central Sweden who broke the neck of an infant during a 55 hour long delivery, is being investigated by the National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Sport: 10 Feb 12
Two men on snowmobiles went through the ice on a lake near Östersund in northern Sweden on Thursday, in what is believed to have been a fatal accident for one.
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Sport: 7 Feb 12
A ski patroller has died after being buried in an avalanche at the Funäsfjällen ski resort near Härjedalen in northern Sweden on Monday, while assessing the avalanche risk in the area.
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Lifestyle: 6 Feb 12
As Sweden's indigenous Sami celebrate their National Day on February 6th, The Local offers up a few video clips highlighting their unique vocal traditions.
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Science & Technology: 6 Feb 12
A power outage at a district heating plant in northern Sweden cut off heat to nearly all of Sollefteå's 8,000 residents on Sunday night as temperatures dropped below minus 25 degrees Celsius.
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Science & Technology: 5 Feb 12
Exhaust fumes and ground-level ozone increase the risk for premature birth, according to a study by a team of researchers at Umeå University in northern Sweden.
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National: 5 Feb 12
The plunging mercury has put a stop to rail services to the far north of Sweden on Sunday with rail operator SJ explaining that it was just too cold to guarantee safety.
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National: 4 Feb 12
The E4 motorway was closed between Gävle and Söderhamn in northern Sweden on Friday afternoon after over 50 accidents were recorded in the icy conditions.
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National: 3 Feb 12
The first prize in a worldwide competition to find the most awkward family photos, recently awarded by a British newspaper, went to a Swedish couple in northern Sweden, whose take on a pregnancy snap has raised a few eyebrows.
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Society: 3 Feb 12
A woman staying at a hotel in northern Sweden was recently shocked to see a snake staring back at her from inside the hotel room's trouser press.
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Society: 2 Feb 12
A Swedish rabbit has hopped into the hearts of YouTube viewers worldwide thanks to a video displaying his impressive sheep herding skills.
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Travel: 27 Jan 12
In case you missed the spectacular northern lights display that had the skies above Sweden glowing earlier this week, The Local has collected a few video clips that aptly capture the awe-inspiring aurora borealis.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Jan 12
Sweden's leader pages painted newly named Social Democrat head Stefan Löfven as a down-to-earth, politically inexperienced man from northern Sweden who has a good chance of strengthening the struggling party.
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Society: 27 Jan 12
A bank customer in northern Sweden got more than he bargained for when he made a withdrawal from a cash machine and pulled out his money, followed by a mouse.
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Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 12
With union leader Stefan Löfven set to take over as head of the Social Democrats, The Local takes a look at how a welder from northern Sweden found his way to the top ranks of Swedish politics.
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National: 23 Jan 12
A farm-owner in northern Sweden has been reported to police after a horse was found to have overgrown hooves measuring an "unprecedented" 50 centimetres in length, leaving veterinary inspectors in shock.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 12
Police in northern Sweden recently received a tip-off from Interpol in the UK about a Swedish resident suspected of snatching rare bird’s eggs and nests to sell to collectors worldwide.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 12
Health risks for people with broad hips and narrow waists are significantly lower than for those with narrow hips and broad waists, according to a new international study on obesity, led by cardiology specialists at Umeå University in northern Sweden.
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Society: 20 Jan 12
Police hunting for a bunny burglar believed to have pinched 11 pet rabbits since the New Year in Säffle in northern Sweden have found their first suspect – a fox, but residents remain unconvinced the culprit has four legs.
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Society: 19 Jan 12
Six grenades that fell from a military transport truck in northern Sweden on Wednesday have yet to be recovered despite a wide ranging search to recover the missing munitions.
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National: 18 Jan 12
More than 80 people were charged on Tuesday for participating in a comprehensive smuggling operation that brought huge quantities of alcohol purchased in Germany into Sweden.
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Politics: 17 Jan 12
Social Democrat leader Håkan Juholt once again landed himself in hot water after saying that the government had “pushed through” defence policies with the help of the Sweden Democrats.
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