Karlskrona

fire

Blaze destroys Ronneby heritage building

A fire broke out around 4pm at the Wiener café in Ronneby, one of the old wooden buildings in the famous Brunnsparken.

filesharing

File sharer: my computer was hit by lightning

A flash of lightning has spared the blushes of Ivar Wenster, head of culture in the southern Swedish city of Karlskrona, who caused quite a storm during the summer when he admitted to illegally downloading music from the Internet.

healthcare

Heat leads to postponed operations

Urgent operations were postponed at a hospital in southern Sweden after the humid weather made floors in the operating theatre slippery.

birdflu

Search for birds continues

The search for and dead birds continued on Thursday in the southern Swedish town of Karlskrona, following the discovery of a bird with suspected H5N1 bird flu on Wednesday.

birdflu

Bird flu found in two Swedish towns

The aggressive form of bird flu has been found in four birds in eastern Sweden, the Swedish Board of Agriculture has revealed. Three tufted ducks were discovered with the virus in Oxelösund, about 120 kilometres south of Stockholm. Another bird, a greater scaup, was found in Karlskrona, in the far south of Sweden.