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London's buskers to start taking card payments thanks to Swedish iZettle

Tue, 29 May 2018 12:53:41 +0200

Swedish payment services start-up iZettle is about to bring a slice of card-happy Sweden to Britain as the firm partners with a Mayor of London initiative to allow the city’s buskers to receive contactless debit card payments.

Swedish minister on Google charm offensive

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 12:07:55 +0100

Enterprise and Innovation Minister Mikael Damberg is in London to discuss the tech scene in Sweden and the UK with his British counterparts – and also hopes to convince Google to expand its operations in Sweden.

Swedish man arrested at Stansted airport for possession of terrorism-related material

Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:08:22 +0100

A 34-year old Swedish man was arrested on Tuesday morning at Stansted Airport near London, UK after stepping off a 7am flight from Stockholm, Sweden.

Swedish leaders pay tribute to London victims

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:59:57 +0100

Sweden's prime minister Stefan Löfven said his thoughts are with the British people, following the deadly attack near the British parliament attributed by police to terrorism.

SAS plans new bases in Ireland and London to match low-cost rivals

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 13:12:29 +0100

Scandinavian airline SAS said on Wednesday that it plans to set up bases outside Scandinavia in a bid to keep up with low-cost rivals and capitalize on rising demand for leisure travel in Europe.

London Swedes warned to prepare for Brexit

Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:44:10 +0100

Swedes in the UK have been warned to begin collecting all the papers they need to prove their residency to protect them against hard Brexit, at a packed meeting at London's Swedish Church .

Stockholm will lobby to take EU Medicines Agency and 900 jobs from UK post-Brexit

Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:45:46 +0100

Stockholm’s County Administrative Board (Länsstyrelsen) has been told to lobby to convince the EU's European Medicines Agency (EMA) to choose the Swedish capital as its new base in the likely scenario that the authority leaves London, post-Brexit.

Swedish minister reveals stories of xenophobia towards Swedes in UK

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:18:47 +0100

Sweden's minister for EU affairs and trade has relayed stories of xenophobia experienced by Swedes in the UK in the aftermath of the Brexit vote last June.

Assange: Sweden and UK should 'set me free'

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 08:03:30 +0100

A UN panel has rejected Britain's request to review a ruling that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being arbitrarily detained, according to a statement released late Wednesday in Geneva.

Swedish photographer dead in London pond

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:00:00 +0200

London police have pulled the body of Swedish photographer Sussie Ahlburg, whose images have appeared in Vogue, from the famous ladies' pond at Hampstead Heath, after she did not return home from her Sunday swim.

Swedish expats use book club to survive London

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:49:00 +0200

In a new three-part series, The Local takes a look across the North Sea and at how Swedish transplants behave in London. This week, we visit the decade-old book club that allows a troupe of women to use books to keep in touch with Sweden, but also to examine life in London through a Swedish expat prism.

Assange policing costs near 30 million kronor

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 09:13:00 +0100

The costs of maintaining a police presence at the Ecuadorian embassy in London have totalled almost 30 million kronor ($4.7 million) following Julian Assange's decision to jump bail and seek asylum there last June.

Swedish cabbie flags unique London career

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:03:00 +0100

As London gets swept up in "Scandimania", one Swede has found himself in the driver's seat. The Local talks to the only licensed Swedish cab driver in London about his unique career, getting the Swedish PM in his cab, and Sweden’s presence in London.

Swedish technology solves mummy mystery

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:25:00 +0100

A virtual post mortem has revealed that the Gebelein Man, a 5,500-year-old Egyptian mummy kept at the British Museum in London for over a century, was probably stabbed in the back with a sharp weapon.

Swedish bakery to bring Londoners sourdough

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:34:00 +0200

Hugely successful Swedish stone-oven bakery Fabrique is setting up shop in the British capital, bringing natural sourdough bread as well as cinnamon buns with a Swedish flair to hungry Londoners, The Local's Rebecca Martin discovers.

‘This bronze is like ten golds for me’: Swede

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:54:00 +0200

Jimmy Lidberg took home a bronze medal in the men’s 96 kilogramme Greco-Roman wrestling on Tuesday night in an emotional win over Belarus.

Swede takes home Olympic wrestling bronze

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:41:00 +0200

Johan Eurén became Sweden’s latest medal winner at the Olympic games after winning a bronze in Monday’s 120 kilogramme men's Greco Roman Wrestling.

Swede wins sailing bronze despite protest

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:57:00 +0200

Swedish sailor Rasmus Myrgren's bronze medal win was tainted on Monday afternoon as a complaint about his boat threatened to see him being stripped of the medal.

Tetra Pak heir's wife found rotting under bags

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:06:00 +0200

A member of the Tetra Pak packaging dynasty was bailed Wednesday by a London court on charges of preventing the burial of his wife, whose body was found rotting under bin bags at their mansion.

Rausing charged for preventing burial of wife

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:08:00 +0200

Billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir to the Tetra Pak fortune, was on Tuesday charged with preventing the lawful and decent burial of his US-born wife Eva, British police said.