Ystad

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Swedes claim silver in cross country sprint

Sport: 23 Feb 10
Sweden claimed a valiant silver behind Germany in the women's cross country team sprint event at Vancouver Winter Olympics on Monday, the team's fifth medal in the sport. READ »

Skavsta reopens for air traffic

National: 3 Feb 10
All traffic in and out of Skavsta airport has come to a halt as heavy snow covers takeoff and landing strips and strong winds make flying treacherous. The harsh weather has also led to a number of school closures. READ »

Fewer obese children in Sweden: report

Science & Technology: 5 Dec 09
The number of obese and overweight ten-year-olds is higher in Bollnäs, Västerås and Ystad than in Karlstad and Umeå. These were the findings in a comparison between municipal councils that the National Public Health Institute has carried out. READ »

Boy found guilty of murdering sister

National: 9 Nov 09
A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty by Ystad district court of murdering his 19-year-old sister on a farm outside Sjöbo in southern Sweden. READ »

Man held over bomb threats in Skåne

National: 25 Oct 09
A 34-year-old man is being held by police on suspicion of making bomb threats against a number of addresses in Skäne, southern Sweden, among them the homes of police personnel and a prosecutor. READ »

Famed fictional resident helps Ystad land Swedish tourism prize

Society: 22 Oct 09
The draw of Swedish crime novel protagonist Kurt Wallander has helped the coastal town of Ystad in southern Sweden develop an award winning tourism industry. READ »

Swedish secret agent's 15th century castle up for auction

Society: 13 Oct 09
A 15th century castle in southern Sweden belonging to a man who once supplied secret Russian technology to the Swedish military, is set to go up for auction in November. READ »

Little Sweden on the Prairie

Travel: 12 Oct 09
Välkommen till Lindsborg - Between barbecued ribs and meatballs, Robert La Bua finds Swedish culture alive and well in Little Sweden, USA. READ »

'Dawn pyromaniac' re-arrested in Skåne

National: 21 Sep 09
A 45-year-old convicted pyromaniac was taken in for questioning by police in Ystad in southern Sweden early Monday morning on suspicions of attempting to set fires in the area. READ »

15-year-old remanded into custody for murder

National: 29 Aug 09
The 15-year-old boy suspected of shooting to death a 19-year-old woman in Sjöbo in southern Sweden was remanded into custody on Friday afternoon. The woman was murdered at the beginning of August. READ »

Boy remanded for murder of 19-year-old

National: 15 Aug 09
On Friday, Ystad district court remanded in custody a 15-year-old boy suspected of murdering a 19-year-old female relative. The young woman was found dead at her family farm near Sjöbo in southern Sweden at the beginning of August. READ »

Family terrier makes safe return home

National: 10 Aug 09
Semsi, the one-year-old family terrier that was reported stolen in a burglary in southern Sweden on Sunday, has been found safe and sound. READ »

Wallander: a Swedish detective in America

Lifestyle: 22 Jul 09
Kurt Wallander, the brooding protagonist of Henning Mankell’s famed crime novels, recently came to United States’ television screens in a performance by Kenneth Branagh, giving viewers an unexpected opportunity for reflection, The Local’s Marge Thorell explains. READ »

Controversy arises over ancient stone site

Society: 27 Jun 09
A high profile amateur archaeologist in southern Sweden is to be fined if he continues to post signs about his controversial theories on the origins of the popular Ale's Stones monument. READ »

Arson suspected in eight Österlen fires

National: 22 Jun 09
Police suspect arson in eight separate fires which broke out in various locations throughout the Österlen region of southern Sweden early Sunday morning. READ »

Glass turns up in restaurant chicken

National: 31 Mar 09
A man in Piteå in the far north of Sweden is the latest to find traces of glass in his chicken, while eating lunch at a local restaurant on Monday. READ »

Sweden's chicken glass mystery thickens

National: 30 Mar 09
Bits of glass have been found in a package of Ivar’s brand frozen chicken in northern Sweden as well as a package of fresh chicken sold in a Coop supermarket in Ystad in the south of the country. READ »

Swedish schoolboy threatened by Irish gravel thieves

National: 6 Feb 09
One Irish road paver has been arrested while another is wanted by police in southern Sweden after the pair ordered a schoolboy to fill their truck with stolen gravel. READ »

Two men held over Gotland stabbing

National: 1 Jan 09
Police confirmed on Thursday that two men had been arrested in connection with the murder of a man in Visby on Gotland a mere half hour into 2009. READ »

Orphan kangaroo Walter rejoins Ystad mob

Society: 25 Nov 08
Walter the motherless kangaroo has finally left the comfortable surroundings of a cloth pouch in a terraced house in Ystad and is almost ready to join the other marsupials at a zoo in the town in southern Sweden. READ »

Fresh set of fires plagues Ystad

National: 10 Nov 08
After a month of relative calm, the town of Ystad in southern Sweden was hit by another series of fires early Monday morning believed to be purposefully set. READ »

Discover Ystad: Just follow the trail of blood

Travel: 3 Nov 08
TV viewers around the world are soon to get their first glimpse of the seaside town of Ystad with the screening of three new BBC movies starring Kenneth Branagh as Inspector Kurt Wallander. David Wiles takes us on a blood-soaked tour of Scandinavia’s murder capital. READ »

Beltran guilty verdict upheld

Society: 10 Oct 08
Swedish-Chilean opera singer Tito Beltran has been found guilty by the Court of Appeal of charges of rape and sexually molesting a child. READ »

Record crowds greet Kivik apple market

Society: 28 Sep 08
The warm late summer weather contributed to record crowds at Kivik's apple market on Saturday. The centre piece of the market was an artwork entirely from apples made by local artist Emma Karp Lundström. READ »

Blue tongue outbreak spreads south

National: 24 Sep 08
Sweden’s outbreak of blue tongue disease continues to spread as farms in Småland and Skåne in the south of the country have reported cases of the infection. READ »

Prosecutor: 'Beltran could flee Sweden'

Society: 17 Sep 08
Swedish prosecutors called on Wednesday for opera star Tito Beltran to be remanded in custody pending a decision by the appeal court on whether to uphold a guilty verdict against the singer for rape. READ »

Beltran in court to appeal rape conviction

National: 3 Sep 08
Opera singer Tito Beltran appeared in court today to appeal his February conviction for the rape a teenage nanny and defend himself against renewed suspicions that he sexually molested a child. READ »

Truck driver smuggles 4,500 litres of alcohol into Sweden

National: 19 Aug 08
A 25-year-old man has been charged with trying to smuggle 4,500 litres of pure alcohol into Sweden. READ »

Petrol pirates manipulate free fuel

Society: 18 Aug 08
Several unmanned Swedish petrol stations opened the floodgates for vehicle owners to tank up totally free of charge over the weekend. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: August 8 - 14

Lifestyle: 7 Aug 08
What’s on: Culture and city pride in Stockholm, Culture and jazz in Gothenburg, Deep Purple near Malmö and Reggae nights in Uppsala. READ »

Judge wrote anti-immigrant letters to Prime Minister

Society: 11 Jul 08
A Swedish magistrate wrote anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim letters to Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt while judging in criminal cases involving immigrants. READ »

Convicted pyromaniac suspected of setting new blazes

National: 3 Jul 08
A known pyromaniac has been apprehended on suspicions of setting a series of fires in Simrishamn on Sweden's southern coast on Wednesday morning. READ »

More Swedish bathing areas below EU standards

Society: 2 Jun 08
The water at 23 Swedish bathing areas did not meet EU requirements last year, according to a new report READ »

Top ten Swedish beaches

Travel: 12 May 08
With summer in the air and the holiday season approaching, Ulrika Österlund pulls on her sunglasses and takes a look at ten of Sweden's best beaches. READ »

Nurses strike gathers momentum

Society: 24 Apr 08
Sweden's ongoing nurses strike continued apace on Thursday morning as a further 900 nurses went off duty. READ »

Österlen: The jewel of the south

Travel: 17 Mar 08
With Easter fast approaching, Peter Vinthagen Simpson travels to Österlen in southern Sweden, where the annual Open Studio Week kicks off the holiday season this Good Friday. READ »

Gothenburg demo calls for release of 'Sturup Seven'

National: 16 Feb 08
A demonstration is to be held in Gothenburg on Saturday to call for the release of environmental activists, seen here being arrested by police following a direct action at Malmö Sturup airport. READ »

Tito Beltran appeals rape conviction

National: 16 Feb 08
Opera star Tito Beltran has appealed against a conviction for the rape of an 18-year-old nanny in 1999. READ »

Mixed reactions to Beltran verdict and interest rate rise

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Feb 08
David Landes scans press reactions to two decisions this week that took commentators by surprise: a guilty verdict in the Tito Beltran rape case and a Riksbank interest rate hike. READ »

Tito Beltran found guilty of rape

National: 12 Feb 08
Opera star Tito Beltran has been sentenced to two years in jail for the rape of an 18-year-old girl in 1999. READ »

Beltran released ahead of rape verdict

National: 21 Jan 08
Tito and Jenny Beltran leave Ystad District Court at the end of the opera singer's trial on rape charges. READ »

Prosecutor wants to see Beltran behind bars

National: 21 Jan 08
The prosecuting attorney believes the opera star ought to serve at least two years in prison for rape. READ »

Chilean stars in demo for Beltran

National: 17 Jan 08
Major demonstration in Santiago for Swedish-Chilean opera star Tito Beltran. READ »

Tito Beltran collapses in court

National: 16 Jan 08
Opera singer Tito Beltran was removed from court in an ambulance after collapsing during his rape trial at Ystad District Court on Wednesday. READ »

Carola: Nanny 'was upset after alleged rape'

National: 16 Jan 08
Eurovision winner Carola leaves court after testifying that a nanny who says she was raped by Swedish-Chilean opera singer Tito Beltran was 'very upset' after the alleged attack. READ »

Beltran to Bodström: 'Have you been taking cocaine'

National: 14 Jan 08
Opera star Tito Beltran launched a verbal attack on defence lawyer Thomas Bodström at Ystad District Court on Monday morning. READ »

Trial begins of opera star Beltran

National: 11 Jan 08
The trial has begun in Ystad of opera star Tito Beltran, who is accused of raping an 18-year-old nanny. READ »

Kenneth Branagh to star in BBC 'Wallander' series

Society: 10 Jan 08
Kenneth Branagh is coming to Sweden this summer to begin filming on a BBC series based on Henning Mankell's crime novels. READ »

Stars gather for celebrity rape trial

Society: 10 Jan 08
Singer Carola Häggkvist is among the witnesses scheduled to testify at the trial of opera star Tito Beltran. READ »

Opera star rape suspect slams Sweden

Society: 7 Jan 08
Opera star Tito Beltran has described Sweden as "worse than Chile during the dictatorship". READ »

Opera star Beltran denies rape charges

Society: 5 Jan 08
Swedish tenor Tito Beltran has spoken out for the first time in response to accusations that he raped an 18-year-old nanny. READ »

Famous entertainer arrested for rape

National: 4 Dec 07
A 42-year-old entertainer suspected of raping a teenage girl has turned himself in to police in Gothenburg. READ »

No bomb found at police station

National: 22 Nov 07
A police station was evacuated on Thursday morning after a suspected bomb was found outside. READ »

'Lawnmower man' completes epic journey

Society: 15 Nov 07
Truck driver Kjell Fundin has done what no man has ever done before by travelling almost the entire length of Sweden on a lawnmower. READ »

Parents 'allowed to smack children'

Society: 15 Nov 07
Swedish parents are allowed to smack their children, as long as they do not hit them too hard, a ruling from a court in southern Sweden appears to show. READ »

Greenpeace activists arrested on board nuclear waste ship

National: 6 Oct 07
Three environmental activists were arrested by a police special forces unit on Friday after they had climbed on board a ship carrying nuclear waste off the south coast of Sweden. READ »

Environmental activists board nuclear waste ship

National: 5 Oct 07
Three Greenpeace activists chained themselves to a ship carrying nuclear waste off the south coast of Sweden on Friday afternoon. READ »

'Lawnmower man' embarks on Swedish road trip

National: 2 Oct 07
It's a long, long way from Haparanda to Ystad, particularly for the man who is making the journey on his lawnmower. READ »

Journalists' union calls strike

Business & Money: 24 Aug 07
Swedish journalists' union, SJF, has stepped up action against newspaper proprietors, calling a one-day strike at a number of publications for September 4th. READ »

Radio station silenced by fly invasion

Society: 24 May 07
A small rock music station in Ystad has invented a catchy new slogan after an invasion of flies at its studios in the southern Swedish town caused its equipment to malfunction. READ »

Sweden's last vagabond wants to get stuffed

National: 4 Apr 07
Bengt Vincent, a 73-year-old wandering musician, has asked for his body to be stufffed and put on display at a museum in Ystad. READ »

Sweden to phase out Å, Ä and Ö

National: 1 Apr 07
A parliamentary group proposes scrapping the Swedish letters Å, Ä and Ö, citing globalization and competitiveness. Another reason may have been April Fool's Day... READ »

Evicted man lived with pony in apartment

National: 21 Mar 07
A man evicted from an apartment in southern Sweden was found to have been living with his family, a pony and assorted other animals. READ »

Tractor boys mow down Swedish cops

National: 24 Feb 07
Two boys, aged 14 and 16, drove a tractor straight at three policemen on a road between Ystad and Tomelilla early on Saturday morning. READ »

Man sentenced to 10 years for brother's murder

National: 2 Feb 07
A 22-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering his older brother at a barbecue party in southern Sweden. READ »

Recharge with a Swedish winter weekend

Travel: 15 Dec 06
Is the darkness of winter getting you down? Time to recharge those flickering energy reserves. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius has top tips for winter breaks near Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö. READ »

17,000 Swedes found in Polish mass grave

National: 4 Nov 06
Polish archaeologists have located mass graves containing the remains of 17,000 Swedish soldiers who fell at the Battle of Kalisz in 1706. But Sweden is no longer interested in their fate. READ »

Eight hospitalised after Ystad gang fight

Society: 15 Oct 06
Two youth gangs from Ystad and Tomelilla in southern Skåne clashed on Saturday night in central Ystad, apparently as part of a feud between a group with a Swedish background and another group of immigrant origin. READ »

400 kronor find earns man 11,000 kronor fine

National: 30 Sep 06
A 49 year old Swedish man has been left ruing the four forgotten hundred-kronor notes he found at a cash machine in Skåne, southern Sweden. There's a lesson in this. READ »

'Dead foetus' was alive

Society: 31 May 06
Doctors carrying out an abortion of what they believed was a dead foetus broke off the operation when it transpired that the baby was alive. READ »

Flights delayed by Malmö fog

National: 27 Mar 06
Thick fog enveloped the southern tip of Sweden on Monday, causing cancellations at Malmö's Sturup airport and a collision between two ferries in the harbour in Ystad. READ »

Tougher penalties for traffic offences in Sweden

National: 14 Mar 06
The government is to increase the penalty for drink driving and carelessness on the road. The minimum punishment will be raised and a new crime classification will be introduced. READ »

Schyman receives death threats

Politics: 14 Feb 06
A note on the door of a cinema where leading feminist Gudrun Schyman was giving a lecture raises fears for her safety. "I see it as a death threat," says Schyman. READ »

Planes and trains running again after snow delays

National: 21 Jan 06
Air and train traffic across Sweden was back to normal on Saturday afternoon after major difficulties caused by snow and wind. READ »

Snow covers freezing Sweden

National: 20 Jan 06
As temperatures plummet to as low as -40C, snowfall covered almost all of Sweden on Friday morning. Forecasters warn that temperatures will continue falling over the weekend. READ »

Girl sent to wrong country in flight mix-up

National: 27 Dec 05
It's one thing when your suitcase gets sent to the wrong country by your airline. It's another thing altogether when the cargo in question is your nine year old daughter. READ »

Policeman killed in crash with train

National: 20 Nov 05
One policeman is killed and another seriously injured when their car crashes with a train on a crossing in Skåne. READ »

Glorious summer sunshine: the downside

National: 12 Jul 05
Sweden's been basking for the last two weeks in gloriously hot and sunny weather. Fantastic! Well, as always seems to be the case, it comes at a price: blankets of toxic algae in the east, forest fires in the west and withered crops in the south. READ »