After 149 years, hardware store Møller & Mammen had to turn the key on Monday. Politiken was on the day, which was “traumatizing” for owner Jan Beregaard Pedersen.A small crowd has gathered in front of the hardware store Møller & Mammen on the corner of Adelgade and Gothersgade on Monday morning in Copenhagen. The summer sun casts a happy light down on the street, where traffic is chugging along. Some are wearing work trousers and have hardened hands, while others are in high heels and light summer clothes.Two carpenters pass the time by cutting strawberries in half with their hobby…
Author: Denmark Review
Trygfonden’s lifeguards kicked off the swimming season this weekend, and they were responsible for a single lifesaving operation.The Trygfonden’s coastal lifeguards opened the season on the beaches this weekend, and it was busier than last year.The lifeguard towers were opened on Friday and up until Sunday, June 29, lifeguards carried out 3,066 interventions. In one case, one or more people were in danger of death.The Trygfonden writes this in a press release.Of the more than 3,000 interventions, 85 of them were ordinary first aid actions.The rest were so-called preventive and educational efforts.Fewer assignments last yearDuring the opening weekend of the…
It has cost more than 50 times as much to develop the new machine for assessing properties. However, public trust is declining.The new property valuation system had an overall purpose: It was to ensure that citizens had confidence in the new property valuations and thus in the taxes they had to pay.That’s not how it has turned out. Citizens’ trust is lower than expected, and what’s worse: Citizens’ trust is declining.
The housing association cannot be told what has been assessed, how and why. There are no documents that can explain this, the Valuation Agency has stated.Martin Sattrup Christensen, chairman of a housing cooperative in Jyllinge, is one of the many who has lost confidence in the new property valuations from the Valuation Agency.He and the 24 other cooperative members in the Grønningen association have experienced that the Valuation Agency has increased the value of their land from 7.8 million DKK to 70 million DKK, so that each plot should have a value of 2.8 million DKK.
According to the police, a number of reports of fires in Padborg came in in just 15 minutes.South and South Jutland Police arrested a 15-year-old boy on Monday evening, suspected of six arson attacks in Padborg.The police wrote this in a press release.On Sunday night, a number of fires were reported in Padborg over a distance of approximately 500 meters in just fifteen minutes.No one was injured, but a villa on Oldemorstoftvej in the city burned down, according to the police.According to the press release, the fires started in trash cans.The boy has been charged with a total of six…
After 149 years, hardware store Møller & Mammen had to turn the key on Monday. Politiken was on the day, which was “traumatizing” for owner Jan Beregaard Pedersen.A small crowd has gathered in front of the hardware store Møller & Mammen on the corner of Adelgade and Gothersgade on Monday morning in Copenhagen. The summer sun casts a happy light down on the street, where traffic is chugging along. Some are wearing work trousers and have hardened hands, while others are in high heels and light summer clothes.Two carpenters pass the time by cutting strawberries in half with their hobby…
The Danish Working Environment Authority was called by the police after a fatal accident at a stud farm in Silkeborg Municipality.A 16-year-old girl lost her life in an accident with a horse in Central Denmark on Monday.This is reported by the Central and West Jutland Police.The accident occurred at a stud farm located in Silkeborg Municipality.The girl was supposed to lead two horses across a courtyard, and for some unknown reason, one of the horses got scared and started running.The girl was connected to the horse with a tow rope, and she was dragged along a distance of several hundred…
At least one person has been seriously injured in a collision between several vehicles between Vejle and Kolding.Four vehicles were involved in an accident Monday afternoon at Ågård between Vejle and Kolding. At least one person was immediately reported to be seriously injured, police said.The alarm about the accident on route 176 came in at 4:12 p.m.The first reports were that there had been a head-on collision, and at 6 p.m. the duty officer at the South East Jutland Police stated that four vehicles had been involved.The road has been closed due to the cleanup work and the investigation that…
New legislation in the US could potentially pose challenges for wind projects, causing Vestas shares to fall.Details about a US bill on Monday will cause a red day for Vestas shares, which will fall by almost eight percent at the close of trading.The draft bill was read out in the Senate over the weekend, and if the proposal becomes reality, it will have consequences for the wind industry in the United States.The US bill will mean that subsidies for the construction of wind farms in the US will expire in 2027. Vestas may therefore be affected by the American backlog.The…
On Monday, a woman died after being hit by a bus in a pedestrian crossing.A woman lost her life in central Odense on Monday at noon after she was hit by a bus.The police report the accident, which occurred at the intersection of Albanigade, Hjallesevej and Benediktsgade. The alarm was raised at 12:36.A bus traveling along Benediktsgade hit the woman who was walking in the crosswalk at the intersection.The police described the woman as elderly late in the afternoon and added that all relatives have not yet been notified.A number of witnesses have spoken to the police about what they…