May 28, 2012
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National: 23 May 12
Four tanker trucks crashed in a serial collision in central Sweden on Tuesday, causing one of them to rise up high in the air and resulting in major delays in traffic.
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Education: 27 Mar 12
Stockholm is an increasingly popular destination for expatriate workers, and a major effort is underway to accommodate international arrivals. The new International School of the Stockholm Region (ISSR) aims to give foreign children the support they need to thrive in the Swedish capital.
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National: 20 Mar 12
A one-year-old infant's addition to the queue for one of Stockholm's more popular senior living facilities has taken the trend of Swedes acting early to secure old-age accommodation to new levels.
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National: 9 Mar 12
Sweden's first cashier-free grocery store has opened. At Green Matmarknad in Malmö, all customers pay for their weekly shop though automatic self checkout systems.
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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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Study in Sweden: 17 Jan 12
If you're moving to Sweden to study, then you'll need to find somewhere to live. Here are a few tips on finding student accommodation in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 13 Jan 12
Swedbank announced plans Friday to write down two billion kronor ($283 million) from its operations in Latvia, which have been plagued by rumours about their financial stability.
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National: 16 Dec 11
Stockholm's Arlanda airport was shut down to air traffic for about 90 minutes on Friday afternoon due to a power outage, resulting in significant flight delays.
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Business & Money: 12 Dec 11
More than 100 Swedbank cash machines in Latvia were emptied at the weekend following a wave of rumours on Twitter hinting that the Swedish bank was in danger of running out of money.
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Society: 7 Dec 11
Tucked behind a shopping centre in southern Sweden is a little food cart with a big name. "Obamas" serves falafel, kebab and sausages, prepared and served by Amro and Soumia Hawary, who opened up shop almost three years ago.
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National: 7 Dec 11
Stockholm drivers spend longer in traffic jams than their counterparts in other Scandinavian cities, a new study published on Wednesday shows.
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Society: 17 Nov 11
Masses of people were lined up outside H&M stores across Sweden on Thursday at the release of the Versace collection, with guards having to intervene when frenzied fashionistas tried to jump the queue.
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Science & Technology: 10 Oct 11
As growing numbers of Swedes choose private healthcare, The Local's Clara Guibourg explores what's behind the trend and what it could mean for the quality of Sweden's public healthcare system.
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Business & Money: 2 Sep 11
Swedish banking giant Nordea’s decision to stop all cash handling at certain offices is exposing staff to threats and offensive behaviour, according to a union for financial sector workers.
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Society: 19 Aug 11
A family of Danish tourists has demanded compensation after a disappointing visit to a Swedish wildlife park which featured elk which were "too small".
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Sport: 5 Aug 11
An embarrassing spelling mistake on supporter scarves created ahead of Malmö FF's match against Scotland's Glasgow Rangers on Wednesday has turned into a public relations bonanza for the Swedish football club.
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Education: 4 Aug 11
With record-high enrollment at many Swedish universities this year, the lack of student housing is greater than ever as students look for a place to live at the start of the fall 2011 term.
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Analysis & Opinion: 3 Aug 11
With no end in sight to the shortage of student housing in Stockholm, foreign students should be on the lookout for scam artists hoping to capitalise on their desperation, contributor Anita Badejo discovers.
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Education: 15 Jul 11
Stockholm University, one of the largest in Scandinavia and ranked among the top 100 universities worldwide, is a great choice for students in search of a vibrant and diverse study environment.
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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: 15 Jun 11
A couple from western Sweden was forced to give up their adopted son when his biological mother changed her mind eight months after giving him up for adoption.
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National: 14 Jun 11
Stockholm politicians are arguing that the city’s cyclists be allowed to run red lights and cycle against one-way traffic to avoid congestion and improve the situation for those who chose to travel by bicycle.
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Business & Money: 10 Jun 11
Several Swedish politicians are calling for a steep rise in Stockholm's congestion charge following reports of increasing traffic problems around the Swedish capital.
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Lifestyle: 10 Jun 11
Las Vegas it isn’t, and chances are Elvis won't be anywhere in sight, but this weekend's mass 'drop-in' wedding at Stockholm's Skansen wildlife park is expected to draw hundreds ready to say "I do", The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 May 11
While applications to start privately-run, publicly-funded free schools are on the rise in Sweden, there is nevertheless gathering unease about the suitability of schools being run by private companies, The Local's Geoff Mortimore explains.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 May 11
While football hooliganism has all but disappeared in the UK, Sweden continues to struggle with how to deal with the problem, turning it into a political hot potato, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Business & Money: 2 May 11
Dozens of Swedish university students desperate to find accommodation in Stockholm lost at least 350,000 kronor ($58,000) in an internet housing scam.
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Education: 27 Apr 11
A family in Stockholm were surprised to find out that their daughter had been assigned a place at a preschool with a teaching method created by L Ron Hubbard, the father of Scientology.
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Society: 9 Apr 11
A grocery store near Gothenburg in western Sweden has started selling non-prescription drugs via a vending machine.
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National: 31 Mar 11
Two downed power lines caused a complete stoppage for trains between Gothenburg and Stockholm during Wednesday night with further delays expected throughout Thursday.
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Society: 25 Feb 11
A flood of complaints from disgruntled commuters have forced the operators of Malmö's new City Tunnel to educate local residents about the the dos and don'ts of travelling on a big-city transit system.
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Travel: 11 Feb 11
With Sweden digging out from another wave of winter weather, The Local's Geoff Mortimore provides a run down of Swedish ski areas, where new snow brings fists raised in glee, rather than anger.
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Society: 3 Feb 11
Revellers at hotspots surrounding Stockholm's hip nightlife area of Stureplan regularly endure poor service and rude staff and, in defiance of established economic theory, they keep coming back for more.
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Science & Technology: 3 Feb 11
Wait times for general surgery are 34 percent shorter for people with high incomes compared to those with lower salaries, according to a new Swedish study.
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National: 16 Jan 11
Freezing conditions in northern Sweden and flooding in the south caused traffic chaos across the country on Sunday.
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National: 16 Jan 11
The Swedish government is considering taking advantage of the good reputation its healthcare system has overseas and promoting the concept for export abroad.
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Society: 30 Nov 10
Mohammed Razaul Karim, the head chef and owner of the prize-winning Indian Garden in Stockholm, has gained international recognition for the quality of his curries.
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National: 27 Nov 10
An accident involving a coach, a truck and two cars on the main E4 motorway south of Sundsvall left several people injured on Saturday afternoon.
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Society: 15 Nov 10
Two Poles were caught attempting to smuggle almost 15,000 litres of contraband alcohol through Sweden into Norway on Monday. The seizure was the biggest of its kind in nearly a decade.
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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Oct 10
The hounding of Moderate Party secretary Sofia Arkelsten may not be the best approach to fighting corruption in Swedish politics, writes The Local's David Landes.
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Sport: 18 Oct 10
Switzerland's Roger Federer will make his return to the Stockholm Open two years late when the oldest indoor tournament on the ATP circuit begins on Monday.
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Politics: 6 Oct 10
Leader pages across Sweden condemned as petty and immature the Sweden Democrats’ walking out on a bishop’s speech about racism on Tuesday, while others took aim at Fredrik Reinfeldt's new government.
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Lifestyle: 28 Sep 10
More than a month after arriving in Sweden, many foreign students are still struggling to find permanent housing. Contributor Amy Keresztes, an American studying at Uppsala University, shares her tale of frustration.
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Business & Money: 13 Sep 10
More than 400,000 Swedes, or 8.1 percent of the workforce, were registered as not having jobs in August, up from 7.7 percent last year, new statistics show.
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Education: 31 Aug 10
Homeless students enrolled at Stockholm University are camping out in campus grounds after having exhausted all alternatives and to protest at the lack of accommodation offered them on arrival in Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Aug 10
A charming one-bedroom apartment in one of Stockholm's trendiest neighbourhoods for a mere €410 rent-controlled (3,900 kronor, $520) a month: too good to be true? It was for Johannes, writes AFP's Marc Preel.
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National: 30 Aug 10
The number of organ donors in Sweden has declined for the second consecutive year, and is now at an eight year low, new statistics show. Despite the situation the welfare board has no plans to review guidelines for respirator care.
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Science & Technology: 12 Jul 10
The seasonal outbreaks of blue-green algae in the Baltic Sea emit a nerve poison which can have a link to Alzheimer's, Parkínson's and Lou Gehrig's disease, Swedish researchers have claimed.
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National: 13 Jun 10
An estimated 200 couples took the opportunity to get hitched at a popular Stockholm park’s first ever drop-in wedding day on Saturday.
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Society: 23 May 10
Christian bikers were among the crowds pouring into Stockholm on Saturday for the third annual “Jesus Manifestation”, as some 25,000 people took part in a religious service in the city centre.
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Society: 28 Apr 10
Martina Children's Hospital in Stockholm is based on a unique concept that bypasses the general practitioner to give children direct access to pediatric specialists.
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Society: 23 Apr 10
A pair of Swedish students are hoping their website launched to organize people left stranded by the Iceland volcano flight chaos will become a permanent fixture to help victims of natural disasters.
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National: 22 Apr 10
The week-long air travel chaos brought about by the eruption of a volcano in southern Iceland has led to thousands of travellers finding themselves stranded across Europe. The Local has asked a few of them how they have coped.
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National: 18 Apr 10
Hundreds of Swedish tourists have begun arduous bus journeys home from southern Europe as volcanic ash from Iceland continues to render air travel impossible.
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National: 14 Apr 10
Four of out ten apartments in Stockholm are sublet on illegal contracts, a new survey shows, with Malmö also witnessing an upsurge in black market rentals.
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Society: 12 Apr 10
A suicidal man who sought the help of a Church of Sweden pastor for night-time helpline solace was left bitterly disappointed when his holy interlocutor fell fast asleep.
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National: 25 Mar 10
Independent taxi drivers have blocked road routes in and out of Stockholm's main Arlanda airport in protest against new taxi system regulations introduced by the Civil Aviation Authority.
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Travel: 19 Mar 10
If watching the Olympics gave you an itch to hit the slopes, consider Romme Alpin, a bus ride from Stockholm, says Davrell Roberts Tien.
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National: 24 Feb 10
Police were called to a Stockholm bus terminal on Tuesday night as tempers flared among the 1,000 hard-hit travellers trying to get home as transport problems continued to afflict many areas of Sweden.
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National: 18 Feb 10
A Malmö man has become the first Swede to sign up to Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space adventure after he shelled out 1.4 million kronor to fly to the frontier of space.
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National: 15 Feb 10
An 86-year-old man, who survived the Nazi Holocaust in Poland and fled to Sweden in 1946, has won his court battle against a Swedish district council for the right to a place in a Jewish nursing home.
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Analysis & Opinion: 10 Feb 10
The wait for a rental apartment in Stockholm averages 104 weeks, according to a new report published this week. The Local has found that behind the heated dialogue there lie few easy solutions.
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Education: 20 Jan 10
The Stockholm School of Economics in Riga is planning to start a Swedish-owned hospital in the Latvian capital in order to raise the standards of the country's hospitals and to remove some of the burden from the Swedish healthcare system.
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Society: 30 Dec 09
Seven of 10 young Swedes aged 20 to 25 want to live on their own, but instead remain with their parents due to a lack of available affordable accommodation or poor personal finances, according to a new poll.
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Society: 5 Dec 09
A psychiatric clinic in Gothenburg has come under fire after a man in his forties who was seeking help was waiting so long that he gave up and went home, and then took his own life.
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Analysis & Opinion: 30 Nov 09
Grab a ticket, wait your turn, then pounce. Paddy Kelly examines the vicissitudes and intricacies of queuing in Sweden.
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Science & Technology: 11 Nov 09
A new service for watching movies over the internet for free has attracted more than a quarter of a million Swedes since its launch two weeks ago.
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National: 9 Nov 09
County health authorities in Sweden are set to receive half a million more doses of the swine flu vaccine on Tuesday, with up to a million doses expected to be delivered weekly in two weeks time.
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Politics: 7 Nov 09
Uppsala County Council has come under criticism after politicians and leading civil servants were offered the chance to have the swine flu vaccine, regardless of whether they belong to a high-risk group.
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Nov 09
With the swine flu vaccine now available to the general public in Sweden, a growing number of questions have come up regarding who should receive the vaccine and where to get vaccinated.
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National: 31 Oct 09
Daniel Westling, fiancé of Crown Princess Victoria, has received the swine flu vaccine after being placed in a high-risk group following a kidney transplant earlier this year. The rest of the Swedish Royal Family, however, has to wait patiently for the jab.
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Sport: 29 Oct 09
A Swedish ice hockey team has come in for withering criticism after it was revealed on Thursday that the squad’s players were vaccinated for the swine flu ahead of pregnant women and the chronically ill.
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Society: 14 Sep 09
Blogging about fashion has become so popular in Sweden that a Stockholm department store has announced plans to open up dressing rooms especially designed for web-savvy fashionistas.
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Science & Technology: 28 Aug 09
A pregnant young Swedish woman is critically ill with a life-threatening lung infection that is suspected to be swine flu.
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Society: 8 Jul 09
Sweden’s renters are having a tougher time meeting their monthly obligations, resulting in increased evictions as well as applications for housing assistance payments.
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Lifestyle: 16 Jun 09
Stuart Roberts traipsed through the mud at Stockholm’s ‘Where the Action is’ to compile this season’s summer festival survival guide.
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Lifestyle: 30 Apr 09
Ben Kersley admires some naked bodies (artistically) and gets a permanent souvenir of Sweden at the Swedish Tattoo Fair in Norrköping.
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Science & Technology: 8 Apr 09
The new Swedish anti-file sharing legislation has encouraged more and more Swedes to cover their tracks online. More than 100,000 individuals have already signed up for the Pirate Bay's new anonymity service.
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Stockholm: 7 Apr 09
A stayover at the world's only Jumbo jet hostel makes for a truly first-class experience, writes The Local's Alannah Eames.
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Science & Technology: 3 Apr 09
Anonymous internet surfing has become more popular in Sweden as the country's new anti-file sharing measures come into force.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Jan 09
All the gossip is about love, long vowels and cockroaches as our regular panelists reveal their favourite Swedish words.
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Lifestyle: 22 Jan 09
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Lifestyle: 14 Jan 09
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jan 09
With taxi rip-offs on the rise, Doug Lansky takes a look at how this un-Swedish practice started, why it’s allowed to continue, and what you can do to protect yourself from the scam.
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Lifestyle: 7 Jan 09
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Lifestyle: 18 Dec 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Lifestyle: 11 Dec 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Lifestyle: 4 Dec 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Lifestyle: 19 Nov 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Lifestyle: 13 Nov 08
The Local scales the heights of the Gothenburg club scene with the able assistance of Djungeltrumman's highly skilled sherpas of the night.
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Lifestyle: 5 Nov 08
The Local offers some tips for Saturday night following consultation with Djungeltrumman, the people in the know.
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Travel: 3 Nov 08
Sponsored article: With single runs over 3,000 metres long and pristine off-piste powder set against one of the most awe-inspiring natural backdrops on earth, it’s no wonder Narvik has been described as home to the world´s most beautiful setting for skiing.
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National: 26 Oct 08
A teenage joyrider caused mayhem and at least 12 casualties when he rammed his car into a line of people patiently waiting for a bus in Västerås in central Sweden on Saturday.
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Lifestyle: 23 Oct 08
The Local scales the heights of the Gothenburg club scene with the able assistance of Djungeltrumman's highly skilled sherpas of the night.
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Lifestyle: 16 Oct 08
The Local keeps you up to date with the latest club tips from Gothenburg with the aid of Djungeltrumman.
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Society: 12 Oct 08
Malmö's Gustaf Adolf square was the scene of an unusual and provocative demonstration on Saturday as 100 'bruised and battered' women sought to draw attention to the problem of violence against women.
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Lifestyle: 6 Oct 08
The Local scales the heights of the Gothenburg club scene with the able assistance of Djungeltrumman's highly skilled sherpas of the night.
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Lifestyle: 2 Oct 08
The Local scales the heights of the Gothenburg club scene with the able assistance of Djungeltrumman's highly skilled sherpas of the night.
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Travel: 22 Sep 08
If you're looking to pamper yourself this autumn, a spa trip to the Baltics could be just the ticket, writes Alannah Eames.
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Travel: 20 Sep 08
A Swedish woman was obliged to buy a new ticket when travelling home on Ryanair after a weekend with her daughter in London. The problem - her name was too long.
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"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »
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