The Local Germany

Horse crashes through car windscreen in western Germany

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 12:34:58 +0200

A horse crashed through the windshield of a car and died in the western German district of Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, German media reported Friday.

Berlin-Hamburg train line closed after horse gets hoof stuck in track

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:21:43 +0200

Authorities had to temporarily close down the high-speed train line between Germany's two largest cities on Thursday after a runaway horse got into a spot of bother.

Renegade horse herd runs amok in small Saxon town

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 14:24:20 +0200

Nearly 50 horses used their newfound freedom at the weekend to wreak a bit of havoc in a Lower Saxon town.

Woman tries to take pony abroad in a car boot

Tue, 04 Aug 2015 18:35:59 +0200

A woman from Lower Saxony was stopped by police on Tuesday – for trying to carry a Shetland Pony out of the country in the boot of her Fiat Panda.

Biology pupils find horse in kebab meat test

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:59:00 +0200

Schoolchildren in western Germany came across horse meat while testing doner kebabs in a biology experiment. It comes a year after the horse meat scandal which showed much meat on sale in Europe had been mislabelled.

Lucky escape for girl and her little pony

Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:38:00 +0100

A young girl spent hours vainly calling for help while up to her chest in mud with her Shetland pony after she tried to rescue the animal when it got stuck in a swamp near a German river.

Wayward horse injures five at marksmen’s fair

Sun, 30 Jun 2013 19:00:00 +0200

A horse which did not wish to be mounted bolted from its rider and charged into a crowd at Hannover’s famous marksmen’s festival on Sunday, injuring five people and damaging a car, bicycle and pram.

SPD call for 'Eurofood' police force

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:14:00 +0200

Germany's opposition Social Democrat party called for a Europe-wide food police force on Friday, a day after it emerged that falsely labelled horsemeat was far more widespread than previously thought.

Horses gallop 'on the bottom of the ocean'

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:11:00 +0200

More than 35,000 people came out to see the 35th annual Duhner Wattrennen, a series of horse races that took place on the tidal flats near Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony on Sunday.