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 Our round up of stories you might have missed this week include attacks on Jewish institutions, a teacher who spent 70,000CHF of his own money on students, parents hitting children and Switzerland being among the world's biggest wine drinkers. https://www.thelocal.ch/20181123/glance-around-switzerland-jewish-attacks-wine-drinkers-swiss-falling-patient-numbers-viral-train-video-rhaetian Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:35:23 +0100 glance-around-switzerland-jewish-attacks-wine-drinkers-swiss-falling-patient-numbers-viral-train-video-rhaetian French athletics bad boy Mahiedine Mekhissi managed to keep his vest on as he completed a show-stealing redemption run with victory in the men's 1,500-metre final on the closing day of the European Athletics Championships in Zurich on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140817/mekhissi-wins-gold-to-make-up-for-one-lost Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:13:00 +0200 mekhissi-wins-gold-to-make-up-for-one-lost Yohann Diniz of France smashed the world 50-kilometre walk record at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich on Friday in a time of three hours, 32 minutes and 33 seconds. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140815/frances-diniz-smashes-world-record-in-zurich Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:26:00 +0200 frances-diniz-smashes-world-record-in-zurich Just a month short of her 41st birthday, Britain's Jo Pavey ran her way into the record books on the opening night of the European Athletics Championships in Zurich by becoming the oldest ever female gold winner in the history of the continental event. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140813/uks-pavey-becomes-oldest-woman-gold-medal-winner Wed, 13 Aug 2014 11:37:00 +0200 uks-pavey-becomes-oldest-woman-gold-medal-winner