Fears of a rush hour traffic chaos are spreading among commuters in Vienna as three underground stations will be shut later this summer. Public transport service provider Wiener Linien announced yesterday (Weds) there will be no service on the U6 line between Westbahnhof station and Alser Straße station from next Monday (18 July). The company […]
Flasher on the loose at lake
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Styrian police are investigating after two women were approached by an exhibitionist. The man stripped in front of the females close to the banks of a reservoir outside the town of Edelschrott in Voitsberg district. He followed them as they ran away, but turned the other way when four strolling teenagers appeared yesterday evening (Weds). […]
Coach banned for lacking wheel
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A coach was kept from continuing driving for having one wheel too few on Tuesday. The Czech passengers continued their journey back home in a replacement vehicle, traffic police said today (Thurs). The driver was fined after they found out the six-wheel coach lacked a back wheel. He argued having been incapable of fixing a […]
Viennese hotels slash prices
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Hotels in Vienna have introduced a drastic price reduction, a survey has found. International hotel price comparison platform Trivago (www.trivago.co.uk/hotelprices) found that a standard double room in the Austrian capital currently cost 118 Euros, down from 140 Euros last month. The website’s research reveals that prices for rooms in hotels in Graz, the second-largest Austrian […]
Sieve licence photo gets all-clear
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A resident of Vienna angered by authorities has been allowed to wear a sieve on his head in a photograph used for his driving licence. Niko Alm explained today (Weds) he was furious that officials had no problem with Muslim women wearing headscarves when posing for their driving licence and passport pictures. The atheist decided […]
German police and the Austrian foreign ministry are investigating after a chopped-up body found in a river in Berlin was identified as an Austrian. Investigators in the capital city of Germany want to await the results of a DNA check. However, they announced today (Weds) that a friend of Raoul Schmidhuber, 31, identified the torso […]
‘Drug craze’ rave planners hit back
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Organisers of a rave have defended themselves after the event was branded as a “drug orgy” by the press. Thirty people ended up in hospital after the festival in Falkenstein, Lower Austria, at the weekend. Six drug dealers were arrested. Around 80 people are facing drug charges. Newspapers claimed the event escalated into a “wild […]
Drunken driver drags along policeman
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A policeman was injured when he was dragged along the road by a boozed-up motorist. The officer tried to remove the car key from the ignition after the owner of the vehicle aroused his attention due to his erratic driving style and the unusually low positioning of his seat in Vienna’s Brigittenau district yesterday evening […]
Paltry interest in internet
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Austrians are showing the least interest in going online among all European countries, a survey has shown. Austrian magazine profil reports Austrians surf the internet just 14 hours a month which is half the European average. People living in the Netherlands are at the top with 35.2 monthly internet hours. Britons come second (33.9 hours), […]
Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) Finance Minister Maria Fekter has emphasised that private companies should get on board to rescue Greece. The cash-strapped Eurozone and European Union (EU) member state is seen on the brink of bankruptcy by a growing number of financial market experts. Many commentators fear the southern country will be unable to pay […]