February 9, 2010
Skövde
The following articles have been tagged with "Skövde":
Guilty verdict for child rape teacher
National: 22 Jan 10
A male high school teacher in Skövde, south west Sweden, has been found guilty of a string of sex crimes with a pupil and sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
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Teacher charged with sex crimes against pupils
National: 20 Nov 09
A male high school teacher in Skövde, western Sweden, has been arrested and charged with a string of sexual offences including child rape.
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Chlamydia helps young men feel more 'manly': Swedish study
Society: 22 Aug 09
Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood, a new Swedish study shows.
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Teen convicted for murder of 86-year-old
National: 3 Aug 09
A 19-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for having beaten an 86-year-old man so severely that he died several weeks later.
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Thief steals caravan complete with sleeping owner
National: 21 Jun 09
A thief made off with a caravan in Skövde in southern Sweden on Saturday night. To his surprise he later found that the caravan's owner was asleep inside at the time.
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Two dead in Swedish air crash
National: 15 Jun 09
Two people have died after a small aircraft crashed on the runway shorty after takeoff at Midlanda airport in Sundsvall in northern Sweden on Monday morning.
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Man dies in fire in Falköping
National: 11 Apr 09
A man was found dead in a badly burned detached house in Falköping late on Friday evening, say police.
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Third man arrested after file sharing raid
National: 5 Apr 09
The police raid on two apartments in Skövde in southern Sweden on Thursday has led to the arrest of a third person on suspicion of breach of copyright legislation.
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Two Swedes arrested in file sharing raid
Science & Technology: 3 Apr 09
Two men have been arrested in Skövde in southern Sweden on suspicion of breaching copyright legislation.
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GM deadline puts pressure on Saab
Analysis & Opinion: 31 Mar 09
Washington's decision to hand General Motors a new deadline to reach viability and to demand it sack its chief executive could put more pressure on the company's beleaguered Swedish subsidiary Saab, analysts said on Tuesday.
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Arrest in death of woman found in ditch
National: 10 Feb 09
One person has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman found in a snowy ditch in Tibro in central Sweden on Sunday night.
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Dead woman discovered in ditch in central Sweden
National: 9 Feb 09
A woman was found dead Sunday evening in a ditch near her home east of Tibro in Västergötland in central Sweden.
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Military offers proposal on defence cuts
Politics: 30 Jan 09
Sweden’s top military commander on Friday handed over to the government a lengthy report detailing a range of proposed reductions to the country’s armed forces.
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Volvo plans 1,620 layoffs
Business & Money: 13 Jan 09
Volvo Group has given notice to 1,620 workers in Sweden, the company announced on Tuesday afternoon.
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Swedish quake 'strongest in two decades'
National: 17 Dec 08
The earthquake which rattled southern Sweden on Tuesday morning wasn’t as powerful as initially thought, according to new data about the tremor.
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Volvo's IT supplier to cut 350 jobs in Sweden
Business & Money: 18 Nov 08
Volvo IT, which provides its parent Volvo AB with IT services, announced on Monday it would be laying off 350 employees.
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Volvo to cut 900 jobs
Business & Money: 11 Nov 08
Volvo has announced that it is to cut 900 jobs from its Powertrain operations in Sweden.
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Two Danish soldiers shot in Sweden
National: 6 Nov 08
Two Danish soldiers have been injured in a shooting incident at a military training zone in western Sweden.
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Swedish train breaks speed record
Science & Technology: 14 Sep 08
The speed record for a train on a Swedish railway was broken on Saturday night. For the first time speeds in excess of 300 kilometres per hour were recorded in a test drive of a Regina train near Skövde.
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900 more jobs to go from Volvo Cars
Business & Money: 12 Sep 08
Volvo Cars announced on Friday it would be laying off an additional 900 employees.
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Cannabis found on Swedish military training area
National: 5 Sep 08
A group of Swedish soldiers made an unexpected discovery when they came across a group of suspicious looking plants during a training exercise in Skövde in western Sweden.
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Two men stabbed, one dead in Skövde
National: 17 Aug 08
Two separate stabbing incidents near Skövde in central Sweden left one man dead and the other with stomach injuries on Saturday evening.
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Man in custody for brutal slaying of Hjo woman
National: 29 Jul 08
A 25-year-old man suspected of having killed a woman in Hjo last week was remanded to custody on Monday, despite denying the accusations.
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Toddler found home alone with dead mother
National: 27 Jul 08
Police now believe the 22-year-old woman found dead in Hjo in western Sweden on Friday afternoon may have been killed on Wednesday, which means her three-year-old daughter was home alone with her murdered mum for almost 48 hours.
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Police: 'Murdered woman met suspected killer over the internet'
National: 26 Jul 08
A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a 22-year-old woman found dead in an apartment in Hjo in western Sweden on Friday afternoon. Police report that the couple met over the internet.
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Man arrested for running over police officer
National: 14 Jul 08
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a traffic police officer near Mariestad in central Sweden on Sunday.
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Rape suspect soldier sacked
National: 18 Jun 08
Sweden's National Service Administration has dismissed a conscript suspected of raping his female colleague at a military base in Skövde, central Sweden.
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Apartment fire leaves two dead
National: 15 Apr 08
A man and a woman died in an apartment fire in the Södra Ryd area of Skövde in central Sweden on Tuesday morning.
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Delays plague Nordic Battlegroup
National: 31 Dec 07
Equipment shortages persist as the group's January 1st launch date approaches.
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Conscript dies after accidental shooting
National: 5 Dec 07
A Swedish army conscript has died after being accidentally shot in the back on Wednesday afternoon.
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Ice causes road accidents
National: 26 Oct 07
Icy roads in southern and western Sweden caused a number of accidents on Friday morning, as temperatures plunged below zero.
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Two die in plane crash
National: 24 Oct 07
Two men died when their microlight plane crashed outside Tidaholm, 150 km north-east of Gothenburg, on Tuesday. The victims are believed to be a flying instructor and his pupil.
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'Too fat to be a father'
Society: 8 Aug 07
Jan Karlsson from Tibro in western Sweden has been told by staff at an artificial insemination clinic that he is too fat to become a father.
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Stepfather appeals rape verdict
National: 5 Jul 07
A 40 year old man who was jailed for six years for having sex with his stepdaughter 200 times is appealing against the sentence - as is his victim and the prosecutor.
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Jesus born in Swedish taxi
Society: 6 Dec 06
A Swedish family got value for money when their helpful taxi driver doubled as a midwife and delivered them a new brother and son. "We will call him Jesus," said the father.
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Sixth Skövde nursery school burns
National: 10 Oct 06
Police suspect arsonists were responsible for a fire at a nursery school in Skövde on Monday night - the sixth fire at a Skövde pre-school since August.
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Arrests over pre-school arson attacks
National: 22 Sep 06
Three people have been arrested in Skövde over a spate of arson attacks on pre-schools in the town. At least one of those arrested was a teenage boy, according to reports.
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Skövde schools in arson mystery
National: 13 Sep 06
Another nursery school was set on fire in Skövde on Tuesday night. It is the fifth such incident in three weeks in the area.
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Second pre-school fire in Skövde
National: 10 Sep 06
A nursery school in Skövde was ravaged by fire on Sunday morning - for the second time in three weeks. Police suspect arson.
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Prisoner escapes during soccer game
National: 27 Jul 06
An inmate at an open prison in Mariefred suddenly ran off the pitch during a football match. A search for the man is underway.
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Train leaves 3-year old on platform
Society: 3 Jul 06
A train driver refused to stop when a family told him that their 3-year old son was left behind on the platform at Skövde station. The train staff have been reported to the police, who call the incident 'crazy'.
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Poker sites used in fraud scheme
National: 20 Apr 06
Nine Skaraborg residents have each lost an average of 10,000 kronor playing internet poker - despite the fact that not one of them has ever visited the poker sites.
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Death bus driver 'suspected of manslaughter'
National: 6 Feb 06
The driver of a bus that crashed in Arboga last month, killing nine people, is suspected of manslaughter, prosecutors say. The 62-year old was questioned by police in hospital on Friday.
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Eight dead in bus crash
Smörgåsbord: 27 Jan 06
At least eight people have died and over 40 people have been injured in a bus accident near Arboga, one of the worst ever to hit Sweden. Prime Minister Göran Persson says he is dismayed by the tragedy.
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24 found guilty in ecstasy trial
National: 11 Nov 05
A group of 24 young people from all over Sweden have been found guilty of involvement in a drugs network. The sentences range from fines to almost five years in prison - but the main man is still to be sentenced.
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Volvo to slash 1,500 jobs
Business & Money: 23 Aug 05
Around 1,500 hundred jobs are to go at Volvo Cars as the company tries to keep the profits flowing to parent company Ford. The biggest losses are likely to be in Gothenburg.
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Online declarers given another 24 hours
National: 3 May 05
The Swedish Tax Agency's campaign to boost the number of electronic declarations has generally been a success. But SEB bank's servers failed to cope with the last minute rush for electronic id's and a few thousand tax-payers have been given an extra day to get their declarations in.
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Volvo secures South Korea engine deal
Business & Money: 10 Mar 05
South Korean industrial giant Hyundai has ordered more than 300 engines from Volvo's engine plant in Skövde.
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Senior soldier arrested for "woman abuse"
National: 9 Mar 05
One of Sweden's highest-ranking military officers has been taken into custody on suspicion of "serious violation of a woman's integrity". But police, prosecutors and the army are - for now - refusing to name the man.
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Depression "behind one in three physical ailments"
Science & Technology: 27 Jan 05
A Swedish professor suggests that obesity could be a direct result of depression. And if there's some other reason behind your increasing waistline a new stomach-reducing corset may be the answer.
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Volvo CEO defends Swedish industry
Smörgåsbord: 14 Sep 04
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Stockholm Fashion Week. Part Två. »
"Sorry for the late Stockholm fashion week update but I am in the north of Sweden and internet is not working very well. Anyway, I think Minimarket presented as usual the most interesting collection at fashion week. I am obviously not the only one who loves the clean and comic-like style of Minimarket as the..." READ »
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