Environmental campaigners are hailing a victory after local officials in Carinthia agreed to a complete stop on further building around the lakeside at the Wörthersee. After decades of uninterrupted expansion of buildings with jetties and concrete steps leading into the water there is now a situation where more than half of the lakeside has been […]
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Cleaner exposed as serial arsonist
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A cleaner faces criminal charges after admitting having started several blazes in Vienna.Police interviewed the 32-year-old man as they investigated a series of 10 fires which have caused substantial damage to various properties in the city over the past four months.The man, who works for a facility management firm, confessed today (Fri) to having started […]
A number of Vienna cultural locales were flooded or otherwise disrupted by yesterdays (Thurs) heavy rain.Water was ankle-deep in five of the seven cinemas at Lugner City, and one of them had to be evacuated during a film showing and the buildings lowest floor had to be closed. Theatre manager Alexander Fischbacher said it was […]