March 20, 2010
Täby
The following articles have been tagged with "Täby":
Driver reported for kicking gay man off bus
Society: 2 Mar 10
The discrimination ombudsman (DO) has asked Stockholm local transport authority, SL, to adequately compensate a gay man after a bus driver ordered him to leave the bus.
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Pornstar cap 'no attire for nursery worker'
National: 23 Jan 10
Headgear emblazoned with the label 'Pornstar' has cost a nursery worker his job after parents caught sight of the man wearing it on a Facebook photo.
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Stockholm swells with millionaire men
Business & Money: 21 Jan 10
Stockholm-area men dominate the ranks of the roughly 40,000 Swedes who earn more than one million kronor ($139,000) per year, fresh statistics show.
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Teenage boy killed by train
National: 18 Jan 10
A teenage boy has died after being hit by a commuter train north of Stockholm on Monday morning.
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Cold spell puts Swedish homes in the dark
National: 6 Jan 10
A cosy night at home ended in a blackout for around 14,500 people in central Sweden on Tuesday evening when the pressure to keep warm caused mass power cuts.
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Drastic funding cuts for independent schools
National: 2 Jan 10
The Swedish National Agency for Education's new method for calculating funding for independent high schools means that the institutions risk losing millions of kronor every year.
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Stockholmers 'fund the rest of Sweden': report
Politics: 21 Oct 09
Stockholm-area taxpayers help fund the rest of Sweden to the tune of 14 billion kronor ($2 billion) a year to put the country’s municipalities on an equal financial footing.
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Cockroach surprise for Swedish property mogul
Society: 16 Sep 09
A Stockholm-area investment executive received a package of live cockroaches in protest of his firm’s perceived negligence in upgrading run-down apartment buildings in Malmö’s Rosengård neighbourhood.
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Stockholm suburb ranked best place to live in Sweden
Society: 12 Jun 09
For the second year in a row, the municipality of Danderyd outside of Stockholm has been voted the best place in Sweden to live, according to a magazine’s annual ranking.
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Test sites named for Swedish language-learning bonus
Society: 11 Jun 09
Thirteen Swedish municipalities have been chosen to participate in the first phase of a plan to reward newly arrived immigrants who perform well in state-funded language classes.
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100,000 lose power after Stockholm fire
National: 1 Jun 09
Up to 100,000 Stockholm households were left without electricity on Sunday night following a series of networks faults and a fire at a transformer station.
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Convict kills wife while on temporary release
National: 22 May 09
A man in his seventies who was on temporary release court ordered psychiatric care has been arrested after confessing to killing his wife in a suburb north of Stockholm.
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Dutch woman barred from borrowing books
Society: 11 Dec 08
A Stockholm-area library is facing a discrimination lawsuit for refusing to let a Dutch woman check out more than two books because she wasn't Swedish.
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Genocide suspect held near Stockholm
National: 16 Jul 08
A Rwandan man suspected of genocide and violation of international law was arrested today in the Stockholm suburb of Täby.
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Schyman: 'I considered taking my life'
Politics: 8 Jun 08
Former Left Party leader and founder of the Feminist Initiative (FI) political party Gudrun Schyman has admitted in an interview that she contemplated suicide.
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Swedish 'Donald Duck' comic fetches thousands
Society: 2 Jun 08
The first issue of the Kalle Anka & Co (Donald Duck and Friends) comic book ever published in Sweden has been sold for just over 100,000 kronor ($16,600).
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Prison sentence following laundry room rape of teen
National: 6 Mar 08
A man has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for three separate sexual assaults against teenage girls.
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Man 'raped girl in laundry room'
National: 6 Dec 07
A man has been arrested in a Stockholm suburb accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in a laundry room.
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A flat-screen TV and a monkey fit for a princess
National: 14 Jul 07
Crown Princess Victoria's 30th birthday celebrations kicked off at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on Saturday. And the government's gift was every princess's dream - a flat-screen TV.
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17-year-old held for knife attack
National: 11 Jul 07
A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with a serious stabbing incident in Täby on Tuesday night.
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Man wanted for armed robbery turns himself in
National: 31 May 07
A 30-year-old man has presented himself at a police station after a warrant was put out for his arrest. The man is among those suspected of opening fire on police in the course of an armed robbery on Wednesday.
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Police issue warrant for arrest of armed robber
National: 31 May 07
A 30-year-old man is wanted by police in connection with an armed robbery in Stockholm on Wednesday. The robbers opened fire on police during the raid.
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Police shot by Stockholm robbers
National: 30 May 07
Robbers opened fire on police officers in Stockholm on Wednesday following a raid on a secure cash transport vehicle.
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Archaeologists find skeleton of eleventh century child
Society: 30 May 07
Swedish archaeologists came upon the skeleton of a young child from the eleventh century during excavations at Täby kyrkby, 20 kilometres north of Stockholm.
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Insurance blow for transsexual driver
National: 1 Mar 07
When becoming a woman at the end of last year, Carina Bladh did not reckon with being charged extra for her car insurance.
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Reinfeldt to move in to official residence
Politics: 29 Jan 07
Fredrik and Filippa Reinfeldt and their three children will soon be leaving suburbia for the official prime ministerial residence at The Sager House in central Stockholm.
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Man dies after brutal attack
National: 6 Jan 07
Police are searching for the person who brutally attacked a man on a footpath in northern Stockholm on Tuesday. The man died in hospital on Thursday.
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Introducing...Filippa Reinfeldt
Lifestyle: 11 Dec 06
She's a respectable local politician and Sweden's new 'first lady', but Filippa Reinfeldt - former flame of Eurodance king E-Type - is now being accused of starring in 'Christmas porn'.
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Jobs dominate Borg's first budget
Politics: 16 Oct 06
The battle to generate jobs was at the top of the government's agenda, finance minister Anders Borg made clear as he presented his first budget on Monday.
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Reinfeldt: Sweden's cool-headed winner
Politics: 18 Sep 06
He's hauled his party from the unelectable Right of Swedish politics to the centre ground. A good listener, he has persuaded Swedish voters that their cherished welfare state is safe in his hands.
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Now the work begins for Sweden's new leader
Politics: 18 Sep 06
At 9.30 on Monday morning Sweden's new prime minister was whisked from his home in a black Mercedes. After their historic election win, Fredrik Reinfeldt and the other Alliance leaders now begin their negotiations for ministerial posts.
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Profile: Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Alliance's clean-up man
Politics: 13 Sep 06
Swedish opposition leader Fredrik Reinfeldt enjoys washing up in the kitchen - "I like when things are clean" - yet the cool-headed 41-year-old's biggest clean-up job is the one he has carried out within his conservative Moderate Party.
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Bodström saves Stockholm's police choppers
National: 31 Aug 06
A week ago it looked like the police in large parts of Sweden, including the capital, would have to make do without helicopters - since there was nowhere to base them. Ridiculous, says justice minister Thomas Bodström.
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No explanation for reservist's shooting spree
Society: 3 Jul 06
Police say they are mystified as to why a young army reservist shot and injured a 17-year old girl before killing himself in a Stockholm suburb on Sunday.
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Täby gunman found dead
Smörgåsbord: 2 Jul 06
A man in camouflage gear and a beret riddled a residential area in Täby, north of Stockholm, with bullets on Sunday morning, wounding an 18 year old girl. The man was later found dead.
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Valborg violence mars celebrations
National: 1 May 06
In most areas across Sweden the traditionally raucous Valborg celebrations were peaceful, but a series of assaults and gang fights cast a shadow over the evening.
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Lidl stores robbed in Stockholm and Gothenburg
National: 27 Mar 06
Two branches of the Lidl supermarket chain are raided by armed robbers in the space of half an hour: one in Täby, north of Stockholm, and the other in Kortedala in Gothenburg.
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Does Swedish punishment fit the crime?
: 21 Sep 05
Last week: Am I paranoid?
The punishments handed down for serious crimes seem very light in Sweden compared to most other countries. What's the thinking behind this? Does an enlightened approach to rehabilitation of criminals actually work? Answers please.
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Prison for police who "misunderstood" rape
National: 19 May 05
Two policemen who failed to send colleagues to an ongoing rape incident when they were on duty in Stockholm's central communication centre are sentenced to a month in prison while a third gets a hefty fine.
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Why does Sweden need military conscription?
: 6 Apr 05
My 19 year old son, who is a Swedish citizen, will soon be starting his period of conscription. He seems perfectly happy about it - but what's the point of a country like Sweden having forced military service? Answers please.
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Hurricane kills seven in southern Sweden
National: 9 Jan 05
Seven people die, 359,000 households are without electricity and transport is in chaos as the most powerful storm in 35 years strikes southern Sweden: Hurricane Gudrun.
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Top lawyer freed
National: 22 Dec 04
"Star lawyer" Thomas Martinson is found not guilty of handling stolen goods on behalf of the convicted murderer he defended in 1995.
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Top lawyer accused of laundering SEK 1.5m
National: 30 Sep 04
A senior Stockholm lawyer has been charged with handling stolen goods on behalf of the convicted murderer he defended in 1995. But his own lawyer says the evidence is "feeble".
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Gang boss on the run
National: 24 Jun 04
A Stockholm mafia leader decides he's had enough of prison and a Malmö judge decides the 'Columbine wannabees' are too incompetent to be dangerous.
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Rape - 25% know a victim
National: 4 Jun 04
Daily reports of rape in Sweden have increased women's fears and forced almost half to change their lifestyle, according to a new survey.
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"Recently I’ve been thinking of how much mental space we could create if we collectively agreed to get rid of stereotypes. All of those small compartments we walk around with in our heads would suddenly be cleared away and we’d feel so much lighter. Just think of all of that space for real new perceptions..." READ »
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