The world’s biggest ever musical-fraud court case against a leading expert on Stradivari who lived in a castle and had a fleet of luxury cars including two Rolls-Royces gets underway in Austria today (Wed). The reputation of 62-year-old German-born Dietmar Machold was so well regarded that he was allowed to value the instruments and give […]
Psychiatrists have given the go-ahead for the prosecution of a Polish cleaning lady accused of poisoning her employers shortly after they agreed to leave her all their possessions. The woman was named only as Bogumila W., 51, because of data protection laws that prevent police from revealing her full name. The woman was arrested after […]
Dream of a new life ends in hospital
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A young couple from Vienna who were planning to start a new life in Germany are now fighting for their lives in hospital after a car accident while they were out celebrating with friends in Hamburg at the weekend. The two were only named named by local police as Marie-Thérèse H. (25) and Florian R. […]
Decomposers rave from the grave
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The world’s most famous dead composers like Beethoven and Schubert are to be brought back to life by QR headstones that will play their works to passers by. Officials at Vienna’s Central Cemetery in Austria are to place QR – or Quick Response – codes on the musicians’ tombstones so anyone with a smart-phone can […]
A farm that aims to offer mentally and physically disabled people the chance to work on the land has been given a 2,500 Euro boost from Casino Salzburg and the spa and wellness hotel Ebners Waldhof. The Mathiashof farm located at Ellmautal in Fuschl am See gives employment to 20 people with either mental or […]
A report into an emergency landing of a Lufthansa plane at Linz airport after the pilot reported a strange smell last week has revealed that it was cooking oil that had gone off. The oil was found in the on-board oven on the aircraft. When the oven was switched on in flight the smell spread […]
A panorama road built by the Third Reich during World War II should be restored with 30 million Euros of public cash, historic monument officials in Austria are demanding. The 10 mile Hohenstrasse – or Vienna High Road – was hand built from blocks of granite over six years as a work creation programme for […]
Police hunt for 2 meter crocodile
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A police search for an escaped crocodile after two children reported that it had attacked them and munched its way through one of their shoes has been stepped down over fears that the beast might be scared away to a location where it would then be impossible to find. The drama started when the two […]
A hotheaded Hungarian got the chance to cool off after threatening to kill his girlfriend and her sister when he jumped into the river Salzach and tried to swim away in order to escape police. But with the temperature in the river just under 12 degrees the 41-year-old Hungarian was soon in difficulties and had […]
Campaigners demanding that sex offenders not be allowed out of jail with an electronic tag have stepped up their efforts after it was revealed that a paedophile in Germany had carried out a sex attack on a seven-year-old while wearing an electronic tag. The convicted child sex offender is now back behind bars after he […]