Three nurses who accidentally fed a corrosive cleaning product to hospitalised children, have begun a criminal trial in Finland. Read the full story

A Swedish man has gone into hiding in Norway after claiming his wife attempted to poison him on several occasions. Read the full story

Fire chiefs in Gothenburg are unable to explain how one of their men accidentally downed a bottle of ammonia during a routine exercise. Read the full story

An unlikely assassin has been blamed for the seasonal demise of trout in an area of Denmark. Environmentalists say a Native American fishing trick has helped them connect a toxic substance found in chestnuts to the mystery surrounding the death of fish in a Jutland creek. Read the full story

A group of language students from Thailand are recovering in a Swedish hospital after making a home cooked meal with poisonous mushrooms. Despite consulting a book about the dos and don’ts of mushroom picking in Sweden, the 10 students still proceeded to make the mistake of picking poisonous fungi, possibly including the potentially-deadly death cap mushrooms while foraging for their dinner. Read the full story

The legacy of Nazi wartime atrocities has resurfaced once again, but this time in the modern context of a man who wanted to get rid of his girlfriend. A 32 year-old Swede has been found guilty of trying to kill his girlfriend four times using Zyklon B pesticide, which was developed by the Nazis. Read the full story

After conducting standard food safety inspections at restaurants in the Swedish city of Halmstad, it was discovered that nearly 90 per cent of establishments that serve pizza failed to meet the minimum levels of hygiene. The Hallands-Posten reported that just nine of the 70 restaurants in town that serve pizza made the grade. Read the full story