Tractor-driving farmer falls down embankment

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A farmer was hospitalised after he suffered an accident with his tractor yesterday (Weds).The 48-year-old man was driving his tractor up a pass road near Taxenbach in Salzburg’s Pinzgau region when the vehicle and the manure tank it was towing overturned on a bend.The farmer sustained undisclosed injuries when the tractor and the trailer plunged […]

Farm servant jailed for fraud

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A farm labourer has been sentenced to three years in jail for defrauding several businesspeople.A jury court in Graz, Styria, heard yesterday (Thurs) how the 40-year-old man tricked a car dealer, a horse farm manager and a hotel boss out of 80,000 Euros overall.The defendant from Tyrol, who was previously convicted for various felonies, pleaded […]

Knifing puts Algerians in clinic

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Two people were hospitalised with stabbing wounds in Vienna-Leopoldstadt yesterday evening (Thurs).Police announced today that two Algerian men aged 21 and 33 were transferred to a hospital after an argument on the street got out of control. Enquiries should reveal the reason for the fight, they said, adding that neither of the counterparts were found […]

Girl bully sentenced

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A teenager has been sentenced to pay a fine for perpetually threatening another girl on the school bus.The 15-year-old defendant was reported to the police by her victim of the same age for constantly threatening to beat her up. State prosecutors informed judges in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, yesterday (Thurs) that the offender mobbed her victim for […]

‘Armed’ cowboy kid subdued by police

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Police pursued and overpowered a boy ‘armed’ with a toy weapon, it has been revealed.Monika Pinterits, head of the Viennese children’s and teenagers’ attorneyship, said yesterday (Weds) police officers followed the nine-year-old after spotting him marching on a sidewalk, wearing a cowboy hat and carrying what turned out to be a plastic toy rifle. After […]

Obama mask bank robber nabbed

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Upper Austrian police have arrested a man who is suspected of robbing more than half a dozen banks wearing a Barack Obama mask.Police officers caught the suspect hiding in woodlands in Vöcklabruck district after a bank robbery in the small town of Fornach yesterday afternoon (Thurs). The man, who is in custody, is accused of […]

Gas focus as OMV remains adamant on Libya

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Gerhard Roiss, the new head of energy sector giant OMV AG, has hinted that the company will reform its strategy.The businessman, who took over from Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer as CEO today (Fri), announced yesterday he assigned a team of firm-internal experts to review and possibly adopt OMV’s focus.Roiss explained it was likely that OMV will draw […]

Another ÖVP MEP quits

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The People’s Party (ÖVP) is in turmoil after two members of the European Parliament (MEP) quit within days.MEP Helga Ranner announced yesterday (Tues) she decided to resign. Austrian newspapers claimed Ranner tried to cover personal debts of around seven million Euros with MEPs’ reimbursement of expenses.Ranner vehemently denied the accusations, but argued the reports have […]

Pensioner’s legs stuck in motor hoe

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Surgeons at a Viennese clinic are fighting to save a man’s legs after a dramatic gardening accident.Both of the 75-year-old pensioner’s legs got jammed in the motor hoe as he was working in his garden in Laa an der Thaya, Lower Austria, yesterday morning (Mon).The man’s wife called an ambulance, before a local doctor decided […]

Karas set to take over from Strasser

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Othmar Karas may succeed Ernst Strasser as leader of the Austrian People’s Party’s (ÖVP) delegation in the European Parliament (EP).Strasser decided to resign as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) yesterday (Sun) after investigative journalists of the Sunday Times revealed he was willing to lobby on behalf of financial sector companies in the EP. The […]