February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Vännäs":
National: 18 Jan 11
Train service on Sweden's northern main line will be interrupted for several days after a derailment in Jämtland on Monday evening.
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National: 19 Nov 09
Two teenage girls have been convicted for their role in terrorizing refugees in Vännäs in northern Sweden last May in what was described at the time as a “lynch mob”.
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Society: 27 Jun 09
Six thousand grenades rest at the bottom of a lake in northern Sweden in boxes originally dumped there in 1954. Two of the boxes have now been retrieved by the Swedish navy for analysis.
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National: 22 May 09
Nearly half of the predominantly Iraqi-refugees residing in Vännäs in northern Sweden have decided to permanently move out of the area after being terrorized by what police called “a lynch mob” in early May.
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Education: 20 Oct 08
Hungry students at a school in Västerbotten in northern Sweden must give a fingerprint in order to eat in the school’s cafeteria, a practice which bothers data privacy officials seeking to ban the measure.
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National: 6 Jun 07
A 19-year-old man drowned in Vännäs, outside Umeå, on Tuesday night after diving under a pool cover. In a separate incident, another young man was seriously injured while swimming near Sollentuna.
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National: 2 Mar 07
Staff at a school near Umeå in northern Sweden have asked parents to keep pupils at home for two days as they discuss ways to tackle an increase in Nazi symbolism and racial abuse.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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