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 Some people are at a loss when they retire, but Swiss engineer and sausage lover Gabriel Strebel didn’t waste any time. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180523/swiss-retiree-invents-king-of-all-barbecues-grillrad Wed, 23 May 2018 14:48:10 +0200 swiss-retiree-invents-king-of-all-barbecues-grillrad Politicians with the conservative Swiss People’s Party believe school authorities in Basel have caved to religious minorities in their decision to take pork off the school lunch menu in the coming school year. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160622/anger-as-swiss-town-rolls-out-non-pork-school-lunches Wed, 22 Jun 2016 14:47:04 +0200 anger-as-swiss-town-rolls-out-non-pork-school-lunches An expat-run small business in the canton of Vaud has come up with a novel way to promote its products. Bangers, a butchery producing British-style sausages, is hoping expats and Swiss alike will follow their noses to the village of Gilly, near Rolle, for the first ever British Food Fair on October 4th. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140926/local-butcher-stages-british-sausage-fest Fri, 26 Sep 2014 15:05:00 +0200 local-butcher-stages-british-sausage-fest