The country’s first driving school for disabled people has opened in Upper Austria.Catholic charity Caritas, which manages the driving school in Leonding near provincial capital Linz, said today (Fri) people with physical disabilities and people with learning difficulties could take driving lessons at the institution.Caritas official Mathias Mühlberger explained: “Getting a drivers licence is often […]
BTV back on track after ‘difficult’ 2008
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Bosses at the Bank für Tirol und Vorarlberg (BTV) said today (Fri) the institutions profit had soared year on year in 2009 after what they described as “a very difficult 2008”.The provincial banks annual profit before taxes jumped by 2.3 per cent last year compared to 2008 figures to 51.3 million Euros.BVT increased its equity […]
Injured Bammer takes a break
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Austrias number one female tennis player Sybille Bammer said today (Fri) she had decided to take a four-week break after a cold joined her Achilles heel problems.The 29-year-old announced that she would skip playing at tournaments at Ponte Vedra Beach and Charleston in the United States after crashing out at the ATP tournament in Miami.Speaking […]
Businessmen in better mood
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The mood among businessmen in Austrias retail trade sector has improved, according to consulting firm KMU Forschung Austria.Georg Toifl, the head of its retail trade division, said today (Fri): “We are experiencing a trend reversal.”He said business would continue to pick up in the second quarter of 2010 but warned against “euphoria” since investment was […]
American singer Randy Crawford will hit the stage at Upper Austrias Clam Castle festival venue, it was announced today (Fri).Music news website Britishrock.cc reports that the legendary R&B singer will give an open air show on 4 July. Crawford has been in the music business since the 1970s and has released 16 studio albums in […]
A Mon Chéri praline left on the windscreen of a Styrian female mayors car last Saturday was not poisonous, provincial authorities said today (Fri).In an earlier incident, another Mon Chéri praline left on the windscreen of Mayor Hannes Hirtzbergers car in Spitz, Lower Austria, on 9 February 2008 was laced with strychnine. He became brain […]
A significant upward trend is not in sight for Austrias economy, a top think tank has warned.The Vienna-based Institute for Economic Research (Wifo) today (Fri) lowered its economic growth forecast for 2010 and 2011. Wifo officials said they expected the countrys economy to grow by 1.3 per cent this year and by 1.4 per cent […]
Austrian culture festival opens in Osijek
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A three-day event promoting Austrian culture opened at the Archaeological Museum of Osijek, Croatia, yesterday (Thurs).Organizers of the Austrian Cultural Forum Festival are the Croatian-Austrian Association in Osijek, the Austrian Cultural Forum and their partners in both countries. They said the events purpose was to promote artistic dialogue between Croatia and Austria.Croatian Times quotes Jan […]
‘Voodoo terrorists’ nicked
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A married couple and a Graz man who used voodoo to terrorise a family in Abtissendorf in Styrias Graz-Umgebung district have been arrested.Police said today (Fri) they had traced threatening SMS messages sent from the married couple to the family.The husband, 46, his wife, 23, and an accomplice, a 46-year-old Graz man, were arrested and […]
Austria Vienna bosses have extended coach Karl Daxbachers contract, it has been announced today (Fri).The former LASK Linz managers contract would have expired at the end of this season.Officials at the club, which is currently third in the Austrian football Bundesliga, said they had already agreed with Daxbacher to extend the cooperation ahead of the […]