Tag: Helsingør
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Sankt Hans Aften bonfire given the green light in the capital region on Friday
Several weeks of drought mean that Midsummer’s Eve on Friday will be celebrated across large parts of the country without bonfires. This is what the message from the Emergency Department reads. In all municipalities west of the Great Belt, there will either be a total burning ban or a more specific bonfire ban for St…
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Luxurious relaxation like in the old days
The sound of the waves coming in. A cold drink on the terrace or a hot cup of tea by the fireplace. A dinner in the restaurant, where local specialties and good wine are served with elegance after a day of museums, reading, hiking, cycling or swimming in the sea, just a few minutes away.…
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Denne uge i København: Hyggeaften, vandring på Sjællands nordkyst og hættetrøjer til målstænger
Vandring Nordkyststien 29. april 08.00-30. april 15.00; DR Byen metrostation, Cph S; gratis adm, meetup.comGå langs Sjællands nordkyst fra Helsingør til Hundested – 70 km i alt over to dage. Mød op kl. 8 og tag toget til Helsingør. Ideelt efter 30-40 km er der et stop på en campingplads eller Hostel lørdag for at…
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DSB is looking for new ways to improve its punctuality
From next year, the journey time between Copenhagen Central Station and Helsingør will increase by nine minutes for regional trains and six minutes for driving during rush hour. The trains take slightly longer at four stations – Rungsted Kyst, Vedbæk, Skodsborg and Klampenborg – explained DSB. The rail operator also confirmed that there will be…
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One year on: Numerous events to mark the anniversary of the invasion
The House of Ukraine opensThe Ukrainian flag will fly at the parliament’s main entrance, and when darkness falls over the city, Christiansborg will be lit up in yellow and blue in honor of Ukraine. Similar services and events will take place in Aarhus, Odense, Roskilde, Helsingør and all over Denmark. Later in the day, the…
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Climate summary: Could Denmark soon have a new Swedish nuclear power plant as a neighbour?
Plans to build a new nuclear power plant near the decommissioned Barsebäck nuclear power plant are taking shape in Skåne in southern Sweden – an area just over 20 km across the Øresund from Copenhagen. For decades, the Danish government tirelessly campaigned for its closure due to its proximity to Denmark. But now it appears…
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Business Round-Up: ‘Wise Men’ economists warn 100,000 will lose their jobs by end of 2023
The Economic Council, the economic council often referred to as ‘the sages’, has warned that three years of austerity is likely to hit the country. At least 100,000 of the 2,950,000 people currently in work are likely to lose their jobs over the next 14 months, it predicts. The development in September of the C25,…
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Culture Round-Up: Disney+ is creeping up on Netflix’s shoulder, but neither can compete with YouTube
The average TV viewer in Denmark streams over an hour of content every day, and the breakdown confirms the enormous popularity of the video sharing platform YouTube among most young people. They spend so much time on the platform that it’s enough to push YouTube, with an average of 20 minutes per person per day,…
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Culture Round-Up: Stacks up pretty well!
If you’ve recently passed Bertel Thorvaldsens Plads outside the Parliament, you may have noticed what looks like three stacks of wooden boxes. Well, they’re actually three wooden sculptures, collectively known as ‘Oak Stacks’, made from centuries-old timber by Irish-American artist Sean Scully to promote his upcoming exhibition at the nearby Thorvaldsens Museum. Old maritime timberThey…
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International Round-Up: Foreign Minister says Denmark will use development aid funds to rebuild Ukraine
Jeppe Kofod, the Danish foreign minister, has said that “some of the money” to rebuild Ukraine must come from Denmark’s development aid funds, reports Jyllands-Posten. The potential allocation of additional development money for reconstruction in Ukraine has drawn criticism from parties such as the Unity List, which says it will do so at the expense…
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Ten new national nature reserves on the horizon
The price for nature to flourish The funds for the establishment of the national nature parks come from the Nature and Biodiversity Package, which was signed back at the end of 2020. Five million kroner has already been set aside for outdoor life in each park, which can help to support nature experiences. It has…
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Thousands of Danish-born denied passports under strict citizenship legislation
An increasing number of people in Denmark have a so-called ‘foreign passport’, which recognizes them as “stateless” because they can neither get a Danish passport, nor are they entitled to a foreign one, reports DR. Although this is the case for many refugees and their family reunified, strict Danish legislation means that their children, born…
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Performance Review: You would be crazy not to tell your friends about it
This year’s Crazy Christmas Cabaret was two years in the making and the evidence was in the script! ‘Tell Me About It’ had not just a surprising ending that perfectly hailed it as the 40th anniversary show, but a whole lot of twists that are more akin to an M Night Shyamalan movie, but without…
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Local Round-Up: Corona initiatives are being stepped up in the country’s largest municipality
Schools, leisure and day care facilities are still open in the City of Copenhagen, but on Monday the municipality introduced a number of e.g. initiatives for schools in the area. Based on the recommendations of the Danish Agency for Patient Safety, parents are asked to drop off and pick up children outside the school, and…
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CPH in full circle: from Scandi chic to gentrified neighborhoods and everything in between
Copenhagen is truly a city with several facades, to speak of a commonly used maxim, which many a travel journalist has probably used in depictions of cities around the world. As part of the Copenhagen edition of the Where to Go podcast, produced by the award-winning team behind the DK Eyewitness travel guides, I recently…
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Taxi driver loses car after driver’s excessive speed
The change came into force on 31 March, and just after midnight on 3 April, an officer’s laser measurement showed that a Mercedes was driving 124 kilometers per hour on the Helsingør motorway on a stretch where the maximum permitted speed is 60 kilometers per hour. Even the driver thought the speed was 73 kilometers…
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Haulier loses car after taxi driver’s excessive speed
The change came into force on 31 March, and just over midnight on 3 April, an officer’s laser measurement showed that a Mercedes from Dantaxi was driving 124 kilometers per hour on the Helsingør motorway. It happened on a stretch where the maximum speed is 60 kilometers per hour. Even the driver thought the speed…
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Autumn holiday 2021: By Holger and Hamlet’s hood
Kronborg castle Helsingør; open daily from 10: 00-17: 00 to October 24, closed October 25, from October 26: open Tue-Sun 11: 00-16: 00; under-18s: free admission, over-18s: DKK 125 adults It is easy to spot Kronborg Castle once you are in Elsinore. Its dreamlike turquoise spiers and sandstone columns tower over the narrow headland that…
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Taxi driver can lose car after driver driving
This is the demand from a prosecutor on Friday in the Copenhagen City Court, where a judge must decide on the effect of the new rules on so-called insane driving. The reason is an episode on the Helsingør motorway on the night of 3 April. An officer measured the taxi’s speed at at least 121…
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3.G student placed in artificial coma after falling from window on study trip
An 18-year-old student from Helsingør Gymnasium has been placed in an artificial coma after being involved in a fall accident. It happened during a study trip to the French region of Brittany. Helsingør Dagblad wrote on Thursday evening that the student had fallen from a roof after he had been out eating with some of…
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3.G student placed in artificial coma after falling from roof on study trip
An 18-year-old student from Helsingør Gymnasium has fallen from a roof and has been placed in an artificial coma. It happened during a study trip to the French region of Brittany. The students had been out eating when the student had climbed onto the roof of the hotel along with several others. Claus Ellekær, principal…
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Police investigated deaths in Elsinore – not criminal
A suspicious death caused the North Zealand Police on Tuesday to move out to an address in Elsinore. This was stated by the police on Tuesday morning. A few hours later – shortly after 4 pm – the message is that there is no sign that there is crime behind the death. – We have…
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The police are moving out to a suspicious death in Elsinore
A suspicious death has caused the North Zealand Police to move to an address in Elsinore, the police inform on Twitter. However, information in the case is sparse. – We are currently present at an address on Solvænget in Elsinore, where we are investigating a suspicious death. We currently have no further information, it reads…
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More than 20 trees felled and bothered North Zealand traffic
The last message about felled trees was received at 22.31 and was about a tree that had fallen over a lane on the Helsingør motorway at Nivå. In addition to fallen trees, the North Zealand Police received a report of a fallen lamppost. It happened on Nordmandsvej in Skibby in Hornsherred, which is the peninsula…
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Gusts of wind on storm strength hit large parts of the country
In Hirtshals, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) has measured gusts of 29.9 meters per second and 28.3 at Hanstholm Harbor. Gusts of wind of that strength are termed storm and strong storm. Gusts of wind of storm strength mean that roof tiles can blow down, branches can break and trees can fall over. Among other…
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Conservatives reach out for double-digit number of mayoral posts
– We have made some internal goals, but there is no reason for me to resign. Of course, I have in my head some municipalities that are goals for us. I also have some municipalities where I think that here we must conquer. – I hope we maintain the eight we already have, but we…
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He lost his sight – but not his humor
In recent years, the popular humorist has been visually impaired due to an eye disease. However, it has not taken the courage from him. – The fussy self-pity is the way directly to depression, he stated a few years ago in a podcast from the Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired, where the newly…
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Local Round-Up: International students protest against government decision to cut courses
A protest against the Danish government’s plans to close many English-language courses outside the Stock Exchange in Copenhagen on 8 October at 16:00. According to the organizers of the protest, the decision to complete many courses affects not only international students who are interested in coming to Denmark to study, but also those who are…
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She adorns the world with her art
On Friday 21 May, Lin Utzon turns 75 years old. She was born in 1946 and grew up in Hellebæk between Helsingør and Hornbæk, where she still has her workshop today. When she was 15, the family moved the tent poles up to move around on the other side of the globe. They settled in…
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FACTS: Frederiksberg has come closer to closure
Here is an overview of the ten municipalities that have the highest test-corrected incidence figures on Tuesday. The number in parentheses shows the incidence figure for Monday: * Norddjurs: 199.2 (175.2). * Frederiksberg: 194.9 (177.8). * Ice High: 190.0 (190.1). * Syddjurs: 178.0 (169.8). * Brøndby: 171.2 (165.9). * Helsingør: 162.1 (168.9). * Copenhagen: 160.6…
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FACTS: Hørsholm may be on its way to reopening schools
Hørsholm Municipality may look forward to reopening schools, restaurants, shops and leisure and cultural life. On Sunday, the municipality had a test-corrected incidence figure below 250 for six days. It shows a statement from the Statens Serum Institut (SSI). A closed municipality must have an incidence rate below 250 for seven days before it can…
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FACTS: Norddjurs Municipality now has the country’s highest infection pressure
The infection is currently rising in Norddjurs. In just one day, the municipality has gone from being number five to being at the top of the list of municipalities’ test-corrected incidence figures. This is shown by the Statens Serum Institut’s statement. A municipality must shut down if the infection pressure becomes too high. The limit…
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FACTS: Hørsholm is the only automatically closed municipality
On Friday, Hørsholm is the only municipality that is subject to automatic closure. This means that, among other things, schools and leisure and cultural life have been ordered to close for a period. A municipality must shut down if the infection pressure becomes too high. The limit goes at 250 infected per 100,000 inhabitants when…