https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A person was shot and killed outside a shopping centre in Borlänge, central Sweden in the early hours of Monday morning, police reported. https://www.thelocal.se/20190708/one-shot-dead-outside-shopping-mall-in-central-sweden Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:08:27 +0200 one-shot-dead-outside-shopping-mall-in-central-sweden One man was killed and another injured in a shooting incident that occurred in Borlänge late on Friday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20190112/friday-night-shooting-leaves-one-dead-one-injured-in-central-sweden Sat, 12 Jan 2019 13:20:12 +0100 friday-night-shooting-leaves-one-dead-one-injured-in-central-sweden A woman has died in a diving accident at the Tuna-Hästberg mine near Borlänge, central Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20180108/woman-dies-in-swedish-diving-accident Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:16:45 +0100 woman-dies-in-swedish-diving-accident A woman who blocked the path of a group of neo-Nazis marching through a town in central Sweden has earned huge praise on social media after a picture of the incident went viral. https://www.thelocal.se/20160503/why-this-fearless-woman-is-the-talk-of-sweden Tue, 03 May 2016 16:12:00 +0200 why-this-fearless-woman-is-the-talk-of-sweden An elk took a startling, eight-metre leap from the top floor of a shopping mall car park in central Sweden on Wednesday, with a shocked motorist capturing the implausible event on video. https://www.thelocal.se/20140130/video-elk-takes-fatal-plunge-off-swedish-mall-car-park Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:01:00 +0100 video-elk-takes-fatal-plunge-off-swedish-mall-car-park A man in his twenties was attacked with an axe on Monday night, prompting police in central Sweden to launch a manhunt to apprehend the perpetrator. https://www.thelocal.se/20120529/41096 Tue, 29 May 2012 09:25:00 +0200 41096 All 23 women on trial for possessing and distributing child pornography were convicted by a Swedish court on Tuesday, along with a 43-year-old man believed to be the mastermind behind the network. https://www.thelocal.se/20111018/36812 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:46:00 +0200 36812 A 26-year-old man has been charged with blackmail after threatening to make public a film of a famous Swedish actor masturbating, unless paid a substantial amount of money. https://www.thelocal.se/20111005/36560 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:18:00 +0200 36560 Rather than send an ambulance to respond to a call from an injured woman in Borlänge in central Sweden, emergency services operator SOS Alarm elected to call on an elderly couple living nearby to check on her instead. https://www.thelocal.se/20110805/35372 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:43:00 +0200 35372 Three people have been arrested in Borlänge in central Sweden after a man in his twenties was run over and killed after two groups clashed in the town on Friday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20110528/34042 Sat, 28 May 2011 12:23:00 +0200 34042 When salesman Rickard Dunker opened his payslip he got something of a shock. For one month's work he had been paid a total of three kronor. After tax had been deducted, his monthly income was reduced to a grand total of two kronor. https://www.thelocal.se/20110226/32278 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:06:00 +0100 32278 The explosion at a post terminal in Borlänge in central Sweden on Wednesday morning was caused by a fire extinguisher, Dalarna police have confirmed. https://www.thelocal.se/20110202/31786 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:25:00 +0100 31786 A Swedish citizen was sentenced to 10 month’s prison by a Turkish court on New Year’s Eve on charges of spreading Kurdish propaganda on behalf of a prohibited political party. https://www.thelocal.se/20100101/24156 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:30:00 +0100 24156 One person has died in a violent fire that broke out in a row of houses in Borlänge, central Sweden, early on Friday morning. According to local police, another person is still missing, suspected to have died. https://www.thelocal.se/20080606/12268 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:34:00 +0200 12268 A man was beaten to death in Borlänge in the early hours of Boxing Day. The man is reported to have been born in the eighties. https://www.thelocal.se/20071226/9507 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:54:00 +0100 9507 One person has died after a fire broke out in an old wooden house in Borlänge in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Fire fighters spent the night trying to bring the blaze under control in the central Swedish town. https://www.thelocal.se/20071030/8942 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:48:00 +0100 8942 Police in Dalarna have arrested two men on suspicion of planning a major robbery. The men - aged 25 and 26 - were apprehended in a synchronized police operation at lunchtime on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20071029/8938 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:07:00 +0100 8938 Several Swedish airports could be under threat after a report suggested that they should not received state aid. https://www.thelocal.se/20071003/8680 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:57:00 +0200 8680 A prison doctor has been issued a warning for prescribing large quantities of sedatives and Viagra to a sex offender who raped two women in the weeks after his release. https://www.thelocal.se/20061101/5372 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:08:00 +0100 5372 The small town central Swedish town of Borlänge is ready to go into the record books. The world’s largest egg — just over 2.5 kilograms — is now the prized possession of Gunnar and Kerstin Sahlin. https://www.thelocal.se/20060922/4993 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:03:00 +0200 4993