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 […]
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 […]
Fire-fighters used jump cables to rescue a woman from an ice-cold river yesterday (Weds).The 39-year-old from St. Valentin in Lower Austria jumped into the Enns near the Upper Austrian town of Traun after her dog was about to be swept away by the waters. She was able to rescue the canine, but failed to reach […]
Robert Hartlauer, head of eye wear and electronic goods specialist Hartlauer, has presented plans to open up to 30 new shops.Hartlauer said today (Tues) the firms concept is to increase its number of branches from the current 160 to between 180 and 190. A new shop opened in the Vorarlberg town of Rankweil only last […]
Dozens of rabbits have died within weeks in a Lower Austrian town, it has emerged.Holger Herbrüggen, a vet responsible for the provinces Wien-Umgebung district, announced today (Tues) that more than 100 could have passed away in Klosterneuburg during the past few weeks as the town is struck by myxomatosis.The expert stressed it was impossible to […]
A German cleaner has been invited to spend a weekend in the Tyrolean Alps after handing in an Austrian tourists lost wallet containing thousands of Euros.Police in Mindelheim in the German State of Bavaria announced today (Thurs) the owner a man from the Tyrolean town of Reutte spontaneously decided to offer the honest […]
Two teenagers have been accused of setting dozens of hay bales on fire yesterday (Thurs).Officials in Prinzersdorf in the province of Lower Austria said today no one was injured when the 70-odd bales of hay burnt away on a pasture outside the town.Around 40 fire-fighters were kept busy for hours putting out the blaze, they […]
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 […]
Experts said they expected no damage reports after a minor quake rattled a Tyrolean valley this morning (Fri).A spokesman for Viennas Centre for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) said the earthquake felt by many in the town of Imst reached 3.4 on the Richter scale around 8.30am.He added it was unlikely that the quake […]
A 94-year-old woman was hospitalised with smoke poisoning after her house caught fire as she tried to put another log in her oven.The fire spread quickly throughout the whole house after the pensioner dropped burning piece of wood on the floor in Patsch, Tyrol.She managed to get clear in time, and local fire-fighters rescued her […]