More than 60 public transport staff have been attacked by fare dodgers in Vienna so far this year, Wiener Linien has announced.The public transport agency said today (Tues) 61 employees assigned to control tickets have been injured since January. The company added that 72 staff were harmed by violent fare dodgers last year.Wiener Linien explained […]
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First Adeg petrol station shop opens
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Adeg has started operating its first petrol station shop in Austria.The Pein Energy station store in the Styrian town of Mureck offers around 1,000 products from the chains range. Shop manager Susanne Pein claimed most products were “almost as cheap as in supermarkets”, adding that her shops big benefit was its longer opening times. The […]
Farmer not fooled by fake policeman
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Upper Austrian officials are investigating after a fake police officer tried to fine a farmer.The man was stopped driving his combine harvester on a main road near St. Marien yesterday (Tues).The prankster on a road bike wearing a three-day stubble, sunglasses and a cycling helmet with a sticker saying “Polizei” (Police) checked the […]
Police are investigating after a man was electrocuted while working at a transformer station in Vorarlberg this morning (Fri).The 24-year-old suffered burns to his arms when he started his tasks at a 220 kilovolt line at a substation in Werben. He was hospitalised in Dornbirn.Police have said they are looking into the accident since the […]
A teen joyrider faces charges for driving an unregistered car on a motorway in Vorarlberg.The 16-year-old boy from Wolfurt was stopped by traffic policemen on the A14 Rhine Valley Motorway last night (Weds/Thurs) after he ignored the 130 kilometre per hour (kph) speed limit.Officers found that the licence plate of the vehicle, considered as being […]
A Viennese police officer faces the sack after ordering a parking violator to buy him a crate of beer instead of paying a fine.Judge Irene Mann heard yesterday (Weds) how the 28-year-old officer wrote on the ticket “That costs one beer crate” after spotting a police pennant inside the illegally parked BMW in the city […]
Austrian comeback at 2011 Song Contest
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Austria will compete in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) after a three-year hiatus, it has emerged.Pius Strobl, head of communications at national broadcaster ORF, said today (Tues) the station has decided to field an artist in next years edition of the tradition-rich event screened all over the world.ORF bosses decided to stop taking part […]
An Austrian waitress has won the fifth edition of “Germany’s Next Top Model”.Alisar Ailabouni from Mattighofen in the province of Upper Austria was named winner of the fifth edition of the format created by German supermodel Heidi Klum last night (Thurs).Around 15,000 fans attended last nights final show in Cologne Lanxess Arena.US pop siren Katy […]
Peoples Party (ÖVP) Economy Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner will meet with mineral oil industry bosses and petrol station chiefs to discuss soaring fuel prices.More and more Austrian drivers are fuming as petrol stations upped prices shortly before the Easter and the Whitsun weekend holiday breaks.A vast majority of 90 per cent of Austrians even think firms […]
A German woman abandoned her drunk husband as they travelled to Slovakia yesterday (Sun).Officials in Seewalchen, Upper Austria, said today the woman had dumped her husband at a motorway rest stop after he tried wrestling the steering wheel from her.Customers at the Seewalchen rest stop restaurant called police after the man told them his wife […]