Posted on 05 January 2011.
Icelandic halibut made international headlines last year as a group of German fishermen caught a record breaker. In fact, it is because of the monster flatfish that foreign tourists flock to the country to try their luck. Now experts are calling for a fishing ban, saying the stock is too small. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 August 2010.
Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir is currently in North America and will be a guest of honour at two annual Icelandic festivals. Read the full story
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Posted on 31 July 2010.
The first Monday is August is always a public holiday in Iceland and Verslunarmannahelginn (literally the tradesmen’s weekend) has become the country’s biggest travel and festival weekend of the year. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 July 2010.
Reykjavik city authorities have decided to hold a ‘swimming vigil’ at the city’s biggest swimming pool, keeping it open non-stop for nearly a week. Read the full story
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Posted on 19 July 2010.
A city in Sweden has built a dedicated seagull lavatory in an attempt to lure the birds away from doing their business in the marina. After cries of exasperation from the local yachting set at Marieberg bay, officials in central Sweden’s Karlstad municipality put in place a designated pontoon, which they hope the gulls will congregate, and therefore relieve themselves, on. Read the full story
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Posted on 18 July 2010.
This morning an Icelandic coastguard patrol ship was in the right place at the right time to assist a French yacht with “some sort of debris” stuck in its propeller. Read the full story
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Posted on 04 July 2010.
The new operators of the Eden tropical greenhouse centre in Hveragerdi, South Iceland want to import three monkeys from Germany to complete the jungle feel. The Hveragerdi municipal government has been asked to support the request to national authorities. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 March 2010.
Strip shows have been banned in Iceland following a vote in the Althingi parliament yesterday. Read the full story
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Posted on 09 March 2010.
The first in a regular series of columns by Chay Lemoine: Gudny Halldorsdottir’s Honour of the House Read the full story
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Posted on 25 June 2009.
Copenhagen’s City Hall Council looks set to approve a measure that will ban vehicular traffic from the congested inner city centre on weekend nights. The new ban would be in effect from 22.00 until 04.00 on Friday and Saturday evenings, according to the Berlingske Tidende newspaper. Read the full story
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