March 19, 2010
Tensta
The following articles have been tagged with "Tensta":
Government calls for action on khat use
Society: 8 Mar 10
The Swedish government has announced a tougher approach to the threat posed by the use of the mildly intoxicating drug khat on the state of public health.
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Home childcare trend fuels segregation fears
National: 5 Jan 10
Sweden’s childcare allowance is proving ever more popular in heavily immigrant neighbourhoods, resulting in the closure of some preschools and prompting fears about the measure’s unintended consequences.
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What's on in Sweden: November 6 - 12
Lifestyle: 4 Nov 09
What's on in Sweden: Selam African festival & gospel munificence in Stockholm; Cirque du Soleil and MJ Thriller in Gothenburg; Oumou Sangaré in Malmö/Lund.
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Serial rapist sentenced to prison
National: 29 Aug 09
An 18-year-old man was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for assaulting and raping two young women in northwestern Stockholm. The man is suspected of being behind a series of violent rapes both in Sweden and Belgium.
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What's on in Sweden: July 17 - 23
Lifestyle: 16 Jul 09
What's on in Sweden: Jazz festival, humour exhibition & Globe tours in Stockholm; 60s & 70s art exhibition in Gothenburg; Tibetan monks & Backa folk & world music festival in Malmö/Österlen.
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Migration Board bans 'racist' lawyer
National: 15 Jul 09
An asylum lawyer from Skåne in southern Sweden has been blacklisted by the country’s migration authorities following revelations about his personal blog on which he referred to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”.
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The Local's Swedish summer festival guide
Lifestyle: 26 Jun 09
From heavy metal to jazz and from pop to classical, Sweden’s roster of summertime musical festivals has something to suit all tastes.
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Migration agency used anti-Muslim lawyer
National: 24 Jun 09
A lawyer contracted by the Swedish Migration Board to represent asylum seekers has a personal blog in which he refers to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”.
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18-year-old serial rape suspect arrested
National: 15 Jun 09
An 18-year old man has been arrested on suspicion of three rapes in the Stockholm suburb Tensta and is suspected of an additional five rapes in Belgium.
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Adam Tensta: Sweden's great hip-hop hope
Lifestyle: 13 May 09
Sweden's rising hip-hop star Adam Tensta talks to The Local's Majsan Boström about bright musical prospects, growing up in a tough Stockholm neighbourhood, and recording in the same studio as boyhood idol Michael Jackson.
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Art off the beaten track in Stockholm
Lifestyle: 7 May 09
Art critic Katarina Wadstein MacLeod slips into the suburbs and side streets of Stockholm in search of hidden gems outside the mainstream.
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Disturbances hit Stockholm suburb
National: 17 Feb 09
Police responded on Monday night to several reports of a brawl involving 40 to 50 young people in Tensta north of Stockholm.
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Christmas unrest in Stockholm suburb
National: 24 Dec 08
For the second night running unrest broke out in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta. A massive police presence managed to gain control of the situation in the early hours of Christmas Eve.
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Doctor keeps licence after oral sex with patient
Science & Technology: 23 Dec 08
A 44-year-old doctor who performed oral sex on a male patient at a Stockholm hospital in 2007 has been allowed to keep his licence.
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Fire service under attack in Stockholm
National: 23 Dec 08
Fire and rescue services came under attack from stone-throwing youths in Tensta in north west Stockholm on Monday evening.
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Stockholm going out guide: Saturday, Nov 1
Lifestyle: 31 Oct 08
Nightclub tips for the very first night of November from Djungeltrumman.
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Sweden condemns surveillance in schools
Education: 2 Oct 08
Sweden’s Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen – DI) has demanded that seven schools change their use of surveillance cameras in a decision it hopes will set a precedent for schools across the country.
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Stockholm weekend club guide: September 26 - 27
Lifestyle: 25 Sep 08
It’s the weekend, it’s the end of the month, and it’s time to find some good quality dancing shoes. Let Djungeltrumman be your cobbler.
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Malmö nightclub tips: September 19 - 20
Lifestyle: 18 Sep 08
Going out in Malmö has never been easier as The Local teams up with the knowledgeable nightlifers at Djungeltrumman to help point you in the right direction.
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Stockholm art gallery guide: August 29 - September 5
Lifestyle: 29 Aug 08
Stockholm art gallery guide from Kalendarium.
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Swedish schoolkids under surveillance
Education: 7 Aug 08
The number of Swedish schools using security cameras to keep an eye on their pupils has skyrocketed in recent years.
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Five year sentence for pre-school fraud
National: 26 May 08
The woman in charge of several suburban Stockholm pre-schools was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for defrauding the city of millions of kronor.
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Stockholm art gallery guide: April 18 - 24
Lifestyle: 18 Apr 08
This week’s art tips from Kalendarium.
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Stockholm art gallery guide
Lifestyle: 10 Apr 08
Five weekend art gallery tips from Kalendarium.
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Girl made up story about abduction
National: 28 Feb 08
A girl who claimed she was kidnapped and then pushed into the water in central Stockholm has admitted she was lying.
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Terror suspects had map of Vilks' house
National: 13 Feb 08
A map of the home of the Swedish artist at the center of a Muhammad cartoon controversy was seized in a terrorism investigation.
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Time to tango: what's on in Sweden
Lifestyle: 25 Jan 08
Something for the weekend: Learn how to dance the tango in Stockholm, learn about the lives of the Swedish settlers in the US in Gothenburg and satisfy your taste for the baroque in Malmö.
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Boy fights for life after firework blast
National: 1 Jan 08
Sweden ushered in the New Year overnight with a wave of fires, firework injuries and stabbings.
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Swedish schools tighten security
Society: 16 Nov 07
An increasing number of schools in Sweden have begun installing surveillance cameras to monitor pupils' behaviour.
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Jail for girl gang muggers
National: 7 Jul 07
Over a period of four months six girls aged between 17 and 20 robbed fourteen elderly women in the Tensta, Rinkeby, Sundbyberg and Hässelby suburbs of Stockholm. On Friday four of the girls were jailed by Solna district court.
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Girl gang terrorised old women
National: 7 Mar 07
Five teenage girls have been remanded in custody for a wave of violent attacks against old women in Stockholm. Fifteen women, mostly between 70 and 80, have been mugged by the gang.
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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.
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Tensta bomb man threatens police
National: 5 Jan 07
Last summer he was at the centre of a bomb drama in a Stockholm suburb. Now the 29-year-old Norwegian is on the run from police.
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Tear gas attack on Stockholm metro
National: 22 Nov 06
Passengers on Stockholm's metro fled Tensta station in panic on Wednesday evening after someone threw a tear gas bomb into the ticket hall, filling it with smoke.
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Another man remanded for Tensta bomb
National: 30 Jun 06
A 53-year old man has been remanded in custody for allegedy being involved in last weekend's incident where a man was strapped into a belt bomb in Stockholm.
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Tensta bomb 'not remote controlled'
National: 29 Jun 06
The belt bomb attached to the waist of a Norwegian man on Sunday in Stockholm was not remote controlled, police say.
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Stockholm belt bomb was live - police
National: 26 Jun 06
See Also: Man arrested over Tensta bomb
The belt bomb worn by a 29-year old man found in Stockholm on Sunday contained live explosives, police confirm. The hunt for the perpetrators continues.
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Man arrested over Tensta bomb
Smörgåsbord: 25 Jun 06
Stockholm police have removed what appeared to be a bomb from a man in the suburb of Tensta. He said he had been kidnapped for three days. A man has been arrested and another is being hunted.
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Swedish mothers older than ever
Science & Technology: 6 Oct 04
New research from Statistics Sweden reveals that life really does begin at 40 for more and more new mothers.
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Major study highlights drug hotspots
Society: 29 Sep 04
A new report reveals that Gothenburg's bars and nightclubs are awash with drugs, while Stockholm's drug trade is anchored in four locations. But what is the government going to do about it?
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Day 22 – A Mongolian St. Paddy’s Day »
"During my misspent ‘yoof’ when I should have been learning Irish and French we used to quip the most random place you could be sent was outer Mongolia. Yesterday on the day my patron saint and namesake was being celebrated I found myself breaking bread with a classmate who hails from the country which has..." READ »
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