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 Around 100 apartments were evacuated late on Wednesday night after a large fire broke out in Skövde, western Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20190117/100-apartments-evacuated-after-fire-in-skovde-western-sweden Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:26:20 +0100 100-apartments-evacuated-after-fire-in-skovde-western-sweden A police officer was assaulted by a gang in central southern Sweden on Wednesday evening after a patrol was called out to deal with a fight. https://www.thelocal.se/20181004/police-officer-assaulted-by-group-in-central-southern-sweden Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:32:51 +0200 police-officer-assaulted-by-group-in-central-southern-sweden After 12 years, a 34-year-old man has confessed to killing a 51-year-old father of four in Skövde in central Sweden in 2000, telling police he needed to clear his conscience. https://www.thelocal.se/20121023/43984 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:57:00 +0200 43984 Two aspiring officers at a military training centre in western Sweden have been reprimanded after building a ”horror dungeon” with bones, faeces and animal guts meant to frighten younger trainees. https://www.thelocal.se/20120208/38990 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:23:00 +0100 38990 A scorned Swedish woman who got back at her ex-husband by hijacking his Facebook account to indicate he was gay and then later attacked him by grabbing his testicles and biting him has been convicted for the assault by a court in southern Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20120127/38762 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:59:00 +0100 38762 A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been sentenced to prison after he stripped down naked and assaulted passengers on a train in November, while under the influence of drugs. https://www.thelocal.se/20120107/38376 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:01:00 +0100 38376 A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been detained after he stripped down naked and started asking people to have sex with him before attacking a female passenger and a conductor on a train traveling in central Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20111123/37524 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:33:00 +0100 37524 A former museum director from Skövde in central Sweden has been sent to prison for accepting bribes. https://www.thelocal.se/20110226/32280 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:25:00 +0100 32280 A county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark. https://www.thelocal.se/20110105/31262 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:43:00 +0100 31262 A male high school teacher in Skövde, south west Sweden, has been found guilty of a string of sex crimes with a pupil and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. https://www.thelocal.se/20100122/24534 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:34:00 +0100 24534 A male high school teacher in Skövde, western Sweden, has been arrested and charged with a string of sexual offences including child rape. https://www.thelocal.se/20091120/23390 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:00 +0100 23390 Young men who contract sexually transmitted diseases often view their afflictions as an affirmation of their manhood, a new Swedish study shows. https://www.thelocal.se/20090822/21622 Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:03:00 +0200 21622 A 19-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for having beaten an 86-year-old man so severely that he died several weeks later. https://www.thelocal.se/20090803/21074 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:47:00 +0200 21074 One person has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman found in a snowy ditch in Tibro in central Sweden on Sunday night. https://www.thelocal.se/20090210/17472 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:22:00 +0100 17472 The National Service Administration (Pliktverket) has dismissed a conscript suspected of raping his female colleague at a military base in Skövde in western Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20080618/12522 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:53:00 +0200 12522 A 22-year-old woman has been found guilty of biting a man's penis at a fast-food outlet in Falköping in March. https://www.thelocal.se/20071114/9093 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:50:00 +0100 9093 Two men died when their microlight plane crashed outside Tidaholm, 150 km north-east of Gothenburg, on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20071024/8881 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:33:00 +0200 8881 Police suspect that arsonists were responsible for a fire at a nursery school in the central Swedish town of Skövde on Monday night, the sixth fire at a Skövde pre-school since August. https://www.thelocal.se/20061010/5165 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:54:00 +0200 5165 Police in Skövde have arrested three people in connection with a spate of arson attacks on pre-schools in the town. https://www.thelocal.se/20060922/4994 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:11:00 +0200 4994 Another nursery school was set on fire in Skövde on Tuesday night. It is the fifth such incident in three weeks in the area. https://www.thelocal.se/20060913/4871 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:37:00 +0200 4871