Author: Denmark Review

A pig farmer, a butterfly enthusiast and an organic furniture designer. All three of them participate in green initiatives that will give Bornholm and the Højlyngsstien more wild nature and diversity.A man in a bright orange hot dog jacket is driving a white van on the road between Aakirkeby and Nexø. Suddenly he jerks the steering wheel, the car skids over the edge of the road and continues bumping into the green pea field.I ask, slightly shocked, if you can do that on Bornholm?”You can. If you own the field yourself,” says pig farmer Rasmus Brunke, opening the car door.Klippeøen…

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Henrik Busch has taken up the fight against the parking conditions in Copenhagen, where the majority of the parking spaces at Strøget have been closed.Henrik Busch stops in the cobblestone street behind the Church of the Holy Spirit on Strøget and waves his umbrella in the direction of a row of parked cars. Until recently, it was also allowed to park diagonally on the other side of the street, but that is a thing of the past:”It provokes me. There could easily be 12 extra parking spaces here, without a damn thing happening. We who live here have paid for…

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The Royal Run is one of the few trials in life where everyone gets a pat on the back just for trying. Because this party is open to everyone. But it was the Queen who started the party.Korsør’s 600th birthday celebration started a bit tamely. At 1 p.m., when the 10-kilometer race started, the mood was on ‘long Saturday in Køge’. But when Krone 8 and Queen Mary arrived, Korsør became ‘Cairo celebrates Ramadan’.97,500 people participated in the Royal Run on Whit Monday in five cities. Here is the story of two debutants from the city by the Great Belt.

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After a collision with a passenger car in Grenaa, a nine-year-old boy has been flown to hospital in critical condition.A nine-year-old boy on a scooter collided with a car on Monday afternoon and was flown by helicopter to Aarhus University Hospital in Skejby.This was reported by the East Jutland Police on Monday evening on platform X, where the police district added that the boy is in critical condition. The car was driven by an 18-year-old man.The police received the report of the incident at Rosenvang in Grenaa at 1:55 p.m.Around 5 p.m., the police reported that a child aged six…

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After the summer holidays, teachers in Odense must be ready to receive students ten minutes before the bell rings.Several elementary schools in Odense Municipality have had good experiences with having an adult in the classrooms ten minutes before the bell rings at 8:00 a.m.After the summer holidays, the system will be introduced at all elementary schools in the municipality, so there will be an adult present at 7:50 a.m.Odense Municipality writes this in a press release.It should help create structure and calm, says Councillor for Children and Youth Susanne Crawley Larsen (R).”It has long been my wish that the teachers…

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The new director of the People’s Meeting hopes that the average attendee will not notice that she has taken over the position. These days she and her colleagues are busy, but what are they actually doing in October?When Folkemødet 2025 takes place, it will be with a new director at the helm, namely Signe Saabye Ottosen, who took up the position in January.And where her predecessor, Peter Christiansen, caused a stir by advocating that any debate disruptors should be invited on stage for a dialogue, the new director has a different approach.

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Price is the most important thing, we say – but still, a few people go for the cheapest bank. A skilled and reliable advisor who is available is crucial to how happy we are with the bank.When more customers experience that the interest rate can once again be negotiated down on the loan at the bank, morale and goodwill increase.This is probably an important part of the explanation why 70 percent of respondents in Mybanker’s annual banking survey are so satisfied with their own bank that they would recommend it to others.

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Every month, almost 200 Danes are approached in their homes by fake bank messengers or bank employees who try to steal bank information, credit cards and codes, according to a new report.It was a pure coincidence that Nordea discovered the fake employee.An elderly male customer had become impatient and called the head office to find out when the bank employee would be at the address.

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Ammunition deminers and chemical emergency responders worked together with police in connection with a suspicious incident in Ishøj.Both the police, the ammunition clearance service and the Danish Emergency Management Agency’s chemical emergency response team are present in Ishøj on Sunday evening after the discovery of cannon fire.It shows pictures from the place.At first, the Copenhagen West Police only stated that they had responded to a suspicious situation together with collaborators.But shortly before 11 pm on Sunday evening, the police announced on the social platform X that gunshot wounds had been found.”Partners have been called in to handle the gun and…

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