Quentin Tarantino will visit Austria to look for a location for an upcoming film about Dracula, it has been reported.Austrian press claimed over the weekend that the “Pulp Fiction” director will stay for four nights in Vienna to visit castles in the nearby countryside.Oscar winner Nicolas Cage spent some weeks in Austria to shoot supernatural […]
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Kicking cow hospitalises farmer
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An elderly farmer suffered a fractured lower leg as a cow kicked her during milking this morning (Mon).The woman, 64, from Gradnitz in Lower Austria was transferred to a clinic in Zwettl after her husband and son heard her screams while working in the kitchen.It was the latest in a series of incidents involving farm […]
Paraglider injured in meadow crash
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A 36-year-old man was injured yesterday (Sun) afternoon when his paraglide crashed into a meadow shortly after he had taken off in Kürnberg in Lower Austrias Amstetten district.Police said the man, from Upper Austrias Steyr district, had failed to make use of the wind after a tension line in the left wing of his paraglider […]
US pharmaceutical firm Baxter will expand its operations in Vienna and Orth an der Donau, Lower Austria, the Lower Austrian Economic Councillor Petra Bohuslav has said.The statement came today (Fri) following her return from a visit to Chicago, Illinois, where Baxter Internationals headquarters are located.Since Baxters Austrian locations were its most important in the area […]
‘History lesson’ for Rosenkranz
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Activists spread out tens of thousands of sheets of paper with the names of Nazi victims in Vienna yesterday (Tues) “to teach Barbara Rosenkranz a history lesson”.”A Letter To The Stars” organiser Josef Neumayr said: “We want to show what happens when intolerance shapes society.”Activists said they felt the urge to take action after Rosenkranz […]
Companies flocking to Lower Austria
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The number of companies settling in the province of Lower Austria is on the rise, it has been announced.Provincial councillor Petra Bohuslav said today (Thurs) 30 companies settled or expanded in Lower Austria in the first quarter of this year. The Peoples Party (ÖVP) politician said this number was a 50 per cent year on […]
A new 162 kilometre long St. James pilgrimage route from Mikulov in the Czech Republic to Krems, Lower Austria, will formally open on Easter Monday, it was announced today (Mon).The opening ceremony and blessing of the route will take place in Großrußbach.The route, which will go through Drasenhofen, Mistelbach, Großrußbach and Stockerau in Lower Austrias […]
Fritzl wants retrial, report claims
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Incest beast Josef Fritzl has plans to call for a retrial of his case, a magazine has claimed.Austrian weekly News reports in yesterdays edition (Thurs) that the 75-year-old has been meeting lawyers and reading the thousands of pages of his case to check the chances for a new trail.Fritzl was jailed for life after admitting […]
Fleeing thieves cause car crash
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Two Slovak robbers caused a traffic accident on the B9 highway in Lower Austria yesterday (Tues) after robbing a supermarket in Hainburg in Bruck an der Donau district, police said.The Slovaks, aged 23 and 34, drove towards Vienna after stealing items worth 500 Euros at the supermarket.After colliding with another car but finding their car […]
A farmer was seriously injured when he was pinned beneath his tractor yesterday (Thurs), police said.The 71-year-old man was driving through woods near Neusiedl in Lower Austrias Zwettl district when his tractor veered off the track and rolled down a four-metre embankment, rolling over twice.He was thrown from the tractor and ended up pinned underneath […]