Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards has spoken out on the infamous Fiji Islands palm tree fall incident in which he reportedly sustained serious injuries four years ago.The guitarist told Austrian magazine News: “I know it has been claimed that that thing was a palm tree. But the truth is that I sat down on a […]
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A 70-year-old man has been accused of stabbing his brother, police in Tyrol have announced.The pensioner from Upper Austria was put in custody after the body of his brother was discovered in a flat in St. Johann this morning (Thurs).Police said the corpse showed several stabbing wounds. They added that the suspect, who has been […]
Dead German found in Salzburg Alps
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Police are investigating after a jogger discovered the body of a hiker yesterday evening (Weds).The woman called police after found the corpse on the Pferdeschlittenweg path near the town of St. Martin in Salzburgs Tennengau region.Officials found out that the corpse was a 61-year-old resident of Leipzig in Germany who spent his holiday in the […]
Vorarlberg not upping heating subsidy
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The provincial government of Vorarlberg has decided not to raise the heating subsidy sum for the upcoming winter.Peoples Party (ÖVP) councillor Greti Schmid announced today (Tues) that the government will support needy households with 250 Euros this winter, the same amount it provided last year.This means that local political decision-makers will not take inflation into […]
Dad of 10 drowns cutting hedge
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A 74-year-old father of 10 drowned in a creek after he slipped and fell down an embankment cutting a hedge yesterday (Thurs).The pensioner was found by his wife who started looking for him when he failed to come in for lunch.The man was already dead when the horrified woman spotted him lying in a stream […]
Pensioner falls off ladder and dies
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An elderly Upper Austrian died after he fell off a ladder picking apples yesterday afternoon (Weds).Officials in Pettenbach announced today that the 83-year-old man’s body was found lying next to the collapsed ladder which was set up on an sloping pasture – by his son. He suffered a broken neck.A local doctor could only […]
Autopsy as Turk trucker found dead
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An autopsy has been ordered after the body of a truck driver was found on the Austrian-Hungarian border.Police in the Burgenland border town of Nickelsdorf said today (Fri) the 45-year-old Turkish mans body was discovered by colleagues who forcefully opened his trucks cabin after two days at a motorway rest stop yesterday.The dead driver and […]
A man accused of killing a brown bear has been excluded from the Carinthian Hunters Association.Officials said today (Fri) they decided to expel the hunter for life due to evidence garnered by special investigators examining the killing of bear Roznik. The animals skinned corpse was found with its head missing in a stream bed in […]
Officials have been urged to act after it emerged that ill children are being made to endure temperatures of 40 degrees centigrade while waiting to be seen by doctors at a Graz hospital.Wilhelm Müller, head of the citys Childrens Clinic, labelled the situation as “disgraceful and unacceptable”. He explained that temperatures in the waiting room […]
Graduate dies on post-exam holiday
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A Salzburg teenager who graduated with honours died on holiday in Turkey.Franz Kurz, head of the polytechnic HTL college in Hallein, said today (Thurs) pals tried to resuscitate Christoph H. after finding his motionless body lying on the beach in their resort.Kurz announced the 19-year-old who went to Turkey with pals to celebrate his […]