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Burkinis to help Muslim Swedes take the plunge

National: 6 Mar 13
The small Swedish town of Emmaboda has vetoed a petition to introduce women-only hours at the municipal swimming pool, and instead wants to start selling burkinis to its observant Muslim bathers. READ »

Two remanded after gruesome puppy torture

National: 13 Aug 12
Two dog owners have been remanded in custody on the suspicion of torturing two puppy dogs to death, in what is believed to have been an attempt for an insurance payout. READ »

'No foul play' in teen girl's hanging death

National: 4 Jun 12
The 17-year-old girl who was found hanged in a tree in in southern Stockholm last Thursday was most likely not the victim of a crime, medical examiners concluded on Monday. READ »

Girl found hanged in tree near Stockholm

National: 1 Jun 12
A 17-year-old girl was found hanging dead from a tree near Stockholm on Thursday in what police initially thought was a suicide but which is now being investigated as a murder. READ »

Jens Lapidus: Sweden's newest star crime writer

Lifestyle: 13 Apr 12
With an English version of his debut novel finally hitting bookstores, celebrity Swedish defence lawyer and best-selling author Jens Lapidus tells The Local's David Landes why defending criminals beats a full-time career as a writer. READ »

Stabbed Green politician denied ambulance: report

National: 2 May 11
Prominent Green Party official Anders Wallner was made to wait for an ambulance despite having sustained serious stab wounds in an attack in Stockholm on Sunday, one his companions has claimed. READ »

Stabbing puts top Green Party official in hospital

National: 2 May 11
Prominent Green Party official Anders Wallner was stabbed early Sunday morning near a Stockholm metro station. READ »

Swedish bathers in naked shower outcry

Society: 28 Apr 11
Regular visitors to a Stockholm-area public swimming pool have expressed their outrage over the refusal of fellow bathers to get naked. READ »

Opposition calls for Stockholm bypass vote

Politics: 20 Apr 10
The left-green opposition wants to hold a referendum on the Bypass Stockholm traffic link that will cost the state around 27 billion kronor ($3.75 billion) and has been strongly criticised on environmental grounds. READ »

Stockholm traffic bypass gets green light

National: 3 Sep 09
The government has approved the controversial Bypass Stockholm traffic link that will cost the state around 27 billion kronor ($3.75 billion). The project has been strongly criticised on environmental grounds. READ »

Young man gets nine years for murder

National: 6 Jul 09
A 19-year-old man was sentenced on Monday to nine years in prison after shooting a man to death and burning the body in a Stockholm suburb. READ »

What's on in Sweden: April 24 - 30

Lifestyle: 24 Apr 09
What's on in Sweden: International dance day & Salif Keita in Stockholm; English speaking theatre in Gothenburg; Depeche Mode tribute in Malmö. READ »

Two men stabbed in Stockholm

National: 15 Mar 09
Two men were stabbed in Stockholm on Saturday night. A man was found stabbed in a cellar in Skärholmen and another man was stabbed in the back in a fight on Hötorget in the centre of the city. READ »

Tax agency says no to Hallå

Society: 28 Jan 09
A 33-year-old man from Stockholm has been denied permission to change his name to the Swedish equivalent of a friendly 'Hello'. READ »

Dead body found in burning car

National: 17 Jan 09
An unidentified person was found dead in a burning car in a garage in western Stockholm on Friday night. Police have not ruled out murder. READ »

Colombian flower power reaches Sweden

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Sep 08
Contrary to popular misconceptions, Columbian isn't all about Scarface, FARC and kidnapping, writes David Bartal. READ »

Gambling baron faces new tax crime charges

National: 14 Aug 08
One of Sweden's most notorious gangsters, currently on trial for instigating murder, was indicted on Thursday on charges of financial crimes and illicit gambling. READ »

Hitman 'lied' about gambling baron's role

National: 6 Aug 08
Prosecutors’ hopes of convicting gambling baron Rade Kotur suffered a setback on Tuesday after one of their star witnesses recanted. READ »

Gambling baron trial begins in Gothenburg

National: 4 Aug 08
A huge police presence was on hand as the trial of gambling baron Rade Kotur got underway in Gothenburg on Monday. READ »

Brutal murder in Stockholm suburb

National: 5 Mar 08
A man was killed in a Stockholm suburb on Tuesday night in a shooting that police believe may have been a gang-style execution. READ »

Sweden's Albanians celebrate Kosovo's independence

National: 18 Feb 08
Emotions ran high in many Swedish towns on Sunday as the country's Kosovar Albanian population celebrated Pristina's unilateral declaration of independence. READ »

Suburbanites live shorter lives

Society: 13 Feb 07
A new report has shown that average life expectancy in certain Stockholm suburbs is much lower than in the city centre. READ »

Concrete jungle: Sweden's suburbs become cool

Lifestyle: 9 Feb 07
They provide homes to one in four of the Swedish population, but the brutalist architecture of Sweden's 'Miljonprogram' suburbs has long had a bad press. Yet now the impossible seems to be happening: the suburbs are becoming cool. Christine Demsteader reports. READ »

5,000 rental apartments in Stockholm "lost" each year

Society: 5 Nov 04
Stockholm's property rental market is shrinking dramatically as the sale of rental apartments to private owners increases. And, as usual, it's children and immigrants who bear the brunt of the shortage. READ »

Police close in on Linköping murderer

National: 25 Oct 04
The stabbings of two people on a Linköping street last Tuesday shocked the city - as did the lack of clues as to the killer's identity. But after breakthroughs over the weekend, police now "expect an arrest this week". READ »

No time to party

Society: 13 Aug 04
Organisers of a Stockholm youth festival forget to check when the kids go back to school, while the schools don't have enough places for all the kids. Someone should get these people together. READ »

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