Tag: Aarhus Municipality
Large stadium plans on the way in Aarhus
After many years of discussions, Denmark’s second largest city is finally getting a much-needed stadium upgrade. Superliga side AGF Aarhus’ new stadium project, ‘Arena of the forest’ will provide Denmark with a state-of-the-art 24,000 all-seater that will boost the country’s stadium portfolio and tournament hosting capacity. The stadium will be designed by London-based architecture firm…
Danish News Round-Up: Christianshavn is becoming more and more like Venice!
A large part of the canal-saturated Copenhagen district of Christianshavn faces an extended period when it will not be accessible to road vehicles due to the closure of a critical bridge. With the bridge out of action, only bicycles and boats will be able to visit the island of Bjørnsholm – where Nordatlantens Brygge and…
“No shitting in the woods” draws the must-have toilet accessory from 2022
Now we all know that bears like to shit in the woods. But the same can not really be said about humans – it is not like driving through the woods and suddenly being forced to pull over, pull down and pull out for sheer enjoyment of it. But if nature calls when you are…
Municipalities are desperate for Ukrainian interpreters
Extraordinary times Some municipalities, such as Aarhus, have called for help via Facebook groups and other platforms. “When the war started, we had a freelance interpreter affiliated with Ukrainian, but none on permanent employment.” This is what Aarhus Municipality’s rapporteur, Ester Fibiger, says to DR News. In addition to professional interpreters who can translate complex…
Danish News Round-Up: MP was abused racistly when he left parliament after the reopening
MP Sikandar Siddique, the leader of the Free Green Party, was subjected to racism when he left parliament on the day of reopening on Tuesday with his parents. He shared a link to the abuse it his Facebook page. He later wrote: “Today my old parents paid too high a price for me to be…
Aarhus Municipality apologizes for hidden information about exam cheating
Aarhus Municipality was aware that students at Søndervangskolen had been given more time than allowed for their reading test at the exam in 9th grade in 2016 and 2017. But when the ministry in May 2018 asked about the school’s results in the national tests in reading, the cheating was not mentioned, writes Politiken. The…
Minister demands statement on school accused of exam cheating
Minister for Children and Education Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil (S) asks Aarhus Municipality for a statement from Søndervangskolen, which is accused of cheating with final exams. It writes Politiken. – The ministry is already contacting Aarhus Municipality today to get a statement. – It is fortunately very rare that such cases arise in the Danish school system.…
Successful school is accused of cheating with final exams
Søndervangskolen in Aarhus is accused of cheating with final exams. It is a matter of students in 2016 and 2017 should have been given extra time for the written final exam in Danish without being entitled to it. It writes Politiken. Lisbeth Schmidt, head of children and young people in Aarhus Municipality, says in a…
OVERVIEW: Hidden camera in nursing home ended in legal battle
After a long legal aftermath on Tuesday, the Supreme Court made two decisions in connection with the documentary: Firstly, it was okay to ban the showing, and secondly, the police have the right to seize and review unedited footage. Get an overview of the case here: * October 17 to November 2, 2019: TV 2…
TV 2 loses in the Supreme Court: Prohibition of hidden recordings was ok
That is what the Supreme Court ruled in a ruling on Tuesday. The Supreme Court even goes so far as to state that recordings of a demented woman in intimate situations were a violation of her human right, her right to privacy, regardless of whether her relatives and she herself may have given permission. For…
North Jutland parish hit by closure – associations must stay closed
The small parish of Skelund in Mariagerfjord Municipality has exceeded the authorities’ infection limit and will be affected by automatic closure from Monday. The closure affects a number of sports clubs and associations, Mariagerfjord Municipality states on its website. This includes a tennis club and badminton club. At the municipality, Flemming Bækby Nielsen, head of…
Astrup Parish near Aarhus closes
Astrup Parish in Aarhus Municipality closes from Monday. This is stated in the Statens Serum Institus (SSI) inventory of municipalities and parishes. The parish has an incidence of over 1000, more than 20 infected in the last seven days and a positive percentage of over three, which are the three criteria for closure. This means…
Parish near Aarhus hit by closure – but nothing should close
Astrup Parish in Aarhus Municipality has had an increasing infection with coronavirus and on Saturday exceeded the authorities’ limit for automatic shutdown. It shows figures from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI). But in practice it does not have much significance, because in the parish there are no schools, leisure facilities and cultural institutions, which would…
Relatives must give a nap when nurses go on strike
It will be noticeable, says course manager Mette Søndergaard Robl, Odense Municipality, which is one of the affected municipalities. – There are some citizens who from Saturday do not get a visit from the nurse that they usually get a visit from. And who then has to seek help from relatives, she says. 10 percent…
The divide between rich and poor areas is growing
Take, for example, Aarhus Municipality. In the richest area, Risskov, the residents have a 3.6 times as high disposable income as the residents in Gellerup, the analysis states. In 2010, income in Risskov was three times as high as in Gellerup. In the Municipality of Copenhagen, Garrison Parish tops, where the income is 2.9 times…
Directors in public housing companies raise millions in salaries
Directors in the public housing companies raise salaries of more than one and two million kroner. This is shown by a survey carried out by Jyllands-Posten and the media house’s Library and Research. The wage level meets with criticism from experts and tenants. 82 out of 151 housing directors have stated their salaries. 13 earn…
OVERVIEW: Coronas infection has closed eight parishes
It was part of the reopening deal that fell into place last week. Now the government proposes that the rules can be relaxed, among other things by raising the latter two figures to 500 and 2.5 percent respectively. See here which parishes are currently affected by closure: * Fredens Sogn, Herning Municipality – closed since…
FACTS: New parish hit by closure – get an overview here
Over the past seven days, there must have been at least 20 cases of infection in the parish, the number of infected per 100,000 inhabitants is over 400, and the positive percentage is over two. It was part of the reopening deal that fell into place last week. See here which parishes and municipalities have…
Congestion in the cake hole in Copenhagen: Highest number of birch pollen in seven years combined with reports of food allergy
Several readers have contacted CPH POST overnight to confirm that yesterday they were hit hard by the number of high birch pollen that ravaged Denmark after the end of a cold snap that stopped the release of the dreaded particles in their tracks in early April. All readers are located in the main cause –…
FACTS: New parish hit by closure – get an overview here
Over the past seven days, there must have been at least 20 cases of infection in the parish, the number of infected per 100,000 inhabitants is over 400, and the positive percentage is over two. It was part of the reopening deal that fell into place last week. See here which parishes and municipalities have…
FACTS: These parishes are currently closed
On Monday, an automatic model for closing down parishes with high infection rates came into force. Schools, leisure schemes and indoor cultural and sports life will be closed if the infection rates in a parish exceed three values. Over the past seven days, there must have been at least 20 cases of infection in the…
FACTS: These parish areas are currently closed
At the beginning of this week, a new model came into force, which makes it possible to make local closures of parishes or municipalities with too high an infection. This means, among other things, that schools and leisure institutions must remain closed. Here is an overview of who is currently affected. * Hvirring Parish, Hedensted…
Housing board is fired on suspicion of million-dollar fraud
Aarhus Municipality has decided to remove the board of Østjysk Bolig. In addition, a number of employees in the housing association have been reported to the police. This is what Århus Stiftstidende and Aarhus Municipality write in a press release. The municipality suspects employees of Østjysk Bolig for having been involved in extensive fraud with…
The ice on several lakes in Copenhagen is now thick enough for ice skating
Sankt Jørgens Sø consists of two dam-separated lake areas. Only the part between Gyldenløvesgade and Kampmannsgade is open for traffic on the ice. So not the one towards Gammel Kongevej. Also on the next lake, Peblinge Lake, which is located between Gyldenløvsgade and Dronning Louise’s Bridge, you must now move. This is stated by the…
The ice on Sankt Jørgens Sø in Copenhagen is thick enough for ice skating
Sankt Jørgens Sø consists of two dam-separated lake areas and stretches from Gammel Kongevej by Planetariet to Kampmannsgade and on to Gyldenløvesgade. It is still dangerous and forbidden to move on the other lakes. Many people – both children and adults – were out on Peblinge Lake on Saturday, but there are large guards in…
Killing Palme got Wammen into politics
But then another Social Democratic profile Henrik Sass Larsen was reported sick. Sass was considered the clear favorite for the crucial post of finance minister. Several political observers were in no doubt. Sass & apos; exit would mean that Wammen became finance minister. And so it was when Mette Frederiksen became Prime Minister and presented…
Police warn of unsafe ice – families break ban
After a long period of frosty weather, it can be tempting to go for a walk on the country’s frozen lakes and streams. But it is far from safe to move out on the ice. Therefore, both the Copenhagen Police and the East Jutland Police warn against moving on the frozen lakes. Only if there…
Police warn of unsafe ice – families with children and prams are breaking the ban
After a long period of frosty weather, it can be tempting to go for a walk on the country’s frozen lakes and streams. But it is far from safe to move out on the ice. Therefore, both the Copenhagen Police and the East Jutland Police warn against moving on the frozen lakes. Only if there…
Frost tempts people to go out on thin and dangerous ice
In some parts of the country, people have ventured out on thin ice on Sunday. This has led the police to warn about the risk, and in some cases, officers have moved out with a raised index finger. Thus, the East Jutland Police on Twitter have used capital letters. “The ice is UNSURE,” the message…
Frost made all the light rail trains stop
During the morning, however, it has gradually managed to get the trains going again. This is stated by Midttrafik, which is responsible for the operation of the light rail. – The light rail has resumed traffic on all sections, but we have to wait until approximately 12.15 before completely normal operation can be expected, it…
Aarhus Municipality withdraws police report of TV2
– The legal assessment that the municipality makes has changed. As city council members, we are not lawyers – we must take into account the lawyers’ assessment, says chairman of the health and care committee in Aarhus Municipality, Peder Udengaard (S), to TV2 East Jutland. – And then it has changed that the East Jutland…
Corona-affected nursing home: Half of the residents are infected
Half of the residents at the nursing home Kildebo on Lolland are infected with coronavirus. 32 of the 60 residents are affected by the virus, Guldborgsund Municipality states in a press release. The employees are also hard hit. Here, 30 out of 70 employees have been found infected. – It is a serious and unfortunate…
Chaos in a dementia nursing home: 62 people are infected with corona
62 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus at the Nursing Home Dementia Center in northern Aarhus. Among those infected are 41 employees and 21 residents. It writes TV2 East Jutland. Tina Grove, acting head of dementia in Aarhus Municipality, calls the situation “chaotic”. – I find it difficult to vouch for the care and care…