https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A 24-year-old expat from Mauritius who studied music in the UK is carrying the banner for Switzerland in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest getting under way in Vienna on Tuesday night. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150519/expat-with-uk-ties-carries-swiss-eurovision-hopes Tue, 19 May 2015 21:54:20 +0200 expat-with-uk-ties-carries-swiss-eurovision-hopes Kitty Brucknell, the former semifinalist in Britain’s The X Factor, failed to make the cut after an internet vote narrowed the field for contenders to represent Switzerland in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141126/x-factor-star-exits-swiss-eurovision-race Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:35:00 +0100 x-factor-star-exits-swiss-eurovision-race Professional singer Kitty Brucknell, a former semifinalist on British television talent show The X Factor, is bidding to become Switzerland’s representative in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141114/former-x-factor-star-bids-for-swiss-eurovision-place Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:09:00 +0100 former-x-factor-star-bids-for-swiss-eurovision-place Everyone with half a heart knows that Eurovision is one of the best nights of the year. The music may be fairly mediocre, but it's not about that. It's about the gloriously camp costumes, the ridiculously sumptuous set design, the silly dancing – and the props, of course. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140511/a-victory-for-bearded-men-in-dresses Sun, 11 May 2014 14:31:00 +0200 a-victory-for-bearded-men-in-dresses The Salvation Army is calling for a rollback of a bylaw introduced in Zurich this year that bans prostitutes from plying their trade on many streets. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131016/let-prostitutes-back-on-zurich-streets-sally-ann Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:47:00 +0200 let-prostitutes-back-on-zurich-streets-sally-ann The Salvation Army band carrying Switzerland’s hopes into the Eurovision Song Contest was vanquished on Thursday night in Malmö, Sweden. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130517/sally-ann-band-bows-out-of-eurovision-contest Fri, 17 May 2013 12:10:00 +0200 sally-ann-band-bows-out-of-eurovision-contest The Salvation Army is known for its Yuletide carolling but you wouldn’t normally associate it with the Eurovision Song Contest. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121217/sally-ann-band-triumphs-as-swiss-eurovision-entry Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:50:00 +0100 sally-ann-band-triumphs-as-swiss-eurovision-entry