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VMA i Åre, Jämtlands län
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VMA i Åre, Jämtlands län
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Galileo Galilei – scientific rebel under threat of death
The editorial staff for this section consists of: Cecilia Düringer – script and research Erik Laquist – producer Mårten Andersson – producer Julia Öjbrandt – sound design and final mix Zardasht Rad – stage narrator Also participating is Olle Amelin, historian of science and national antiquarian in Jämtland/Härjedalen. Do you want to know more about…
Hate in the mountains
21-year-old Evelina is a Sami reindeer herder in a village in Oviksfjällen in Jämtland. Evelina says that she has experienced prejudice since she was a child and that her parents warned her about what could happen when she posts publicly on social media. – But still, I was very shocked when I encountered that first…
Book circle: Kerstin Ekman’s “Händelser vid vatten” highly topical again through the TV series
In Lundström’s Book Radio you can hear the actor Marie Goranzon and the comedian and actor Olof Wretling in the book circle we did a couple of years ago about the novel: How do they read “Händelser vid vatten”? There were three programs then in 2020, but now we get to hear a new, shorter…
The forgotten explosive stores – Emil loses his life in the death trap
Lina’s ex-partner, Elvira’s brother, was named Emil. Until a year and a half ago, he was a workshop worker in Östersund municipality. But one day in November 2020, Emil is called in to open the locks on two metal cabinets in a stone storage room to be cleaned up. Everyone thinks the cabinets are empty.…
Markus Torgeby – the involuntary contemporary preacher
In Swedish Radio’s Sunday interview, you meet the person behind the public mask in journalism’s most basic form – the interview. The host is Martin Wicklin. Producer: Ulrika Stenström. Contact: [email protected] About Markus Torgeby Markus Torgeby is a runner, author and lecturer. He has appeared in a couple of documentaries on SVT – Löparen (2002)…
Lena Hallin – about secrets, hard pinches and threats to the nation
In Swedish Radio’s Sunday interview, you meet the person behind the public mask in journalism’s most basic form – the interview. The host is Martin Wicklin. Producer: Ulrika Stenström. Contact: [email protected] About Lena Hallin Lena Hallin is head of Sweden’s military intelligence and security service (Must) and has had a straight career towards the top.…
Right now: This is what it looks like on the roads – follow Ekot’s live broadcast
If you are going out and driving this Easter, you are not alone. In this broadcast from Ekot, we update on the situation in Easter traffic. In the broadcast, you will hear, among other things, updates from the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish Transport Administration. Also participating are Elina Rapp, reporter P4 Kronoberg and…
The Savior and the Fall – the tours around Daniel Kindberg and ÖFK
On Friday, December 3, the Court of Appeal’s judgment will be handed down in the high-profile economic crime case against ÖFK’s former chairman and former CEO of Östersundshem Daniel Kindberg and his co-defendant. P4 Story tells about the football club’s unprecedented success on the pitch and about what happened next to the pitch until the…
Bird Singing Night Part 1
The bird song night is an eight-hour special program from Naturmorgonredaktionen. The program is broadcast this year on the night between Friday and Saturday and thus includes Naturmorgon’s regular broadcast time. It’s the birds which determines what happens during the night in this live broadcast. But we think that right from the start at midnight…
The Swedish Transport Administration wants to reduce speed on more roads
The Swedish Transport Administration wants to reduce the speed of another 340 km of Swedish roads. However, the proposal applies to significantly fewer roads and shorter distances than 2020 and 2019. This year, it is primarily on the E14 through Medelpad and Jämtland, as well as on a number of roads in Småland and Skåne…
Jämtland starts vaccinating 40-year-olds: “Feels great”
The news that Region Jämtland Härjedalen, as the first region in the country, opens phase four for people between the ages of 40 and 59, was received with joy by, among others, 40-year-old Tomas Åman in Östersund. He threw himself on the phone to make an appointment but it was not quite easy to get…
Jämtland starts vaccinating 40-year-olds
18 of the country’s 21 regions have started vaccination of phase four, shows a review that Ekot has done. In most of those regions, those who are 50 years old can now book vaccination appointments. Region Jämtland Härjedalen stands out, however, a reduced interest in phase 3 means that the region is now opening up…
They want to cover Helagsglaciären with white cloth – to prevent ice melting
To save Sweden’s southernmost glacier, Helagsglaciären, from melting away, two people from the organization POW, Protect Our Winters, want to try covering parts of the glacier with a white cloth. “The purpose of the project is to highlight the important role of glaciers in this enormously rapid climate change that is happening that we are…
Part 1. Events at water by Kerstin Ekman. (Part 1, Lundström’s book circle).
Outside a sparsely populated village in Jämtland, a double murder is committed in roadless land. An event that will become a dark force and affect several people’s lives for a long time to come. It takes 18 years before the truth begins to unravel what really happened at Lobberån outside Svartvattnet, where two young people…
Now Stekenjokkvägen is being plowed – the snow drifts “only” 3 meters this year
The snow removal of Vildmarksvägen over the Stekenjokk plateau between Lapland and Jämtland is in full swing. There is less snow this year than the drifts of 6-7 meters that were last year. “3.5 meters is probably the maximum this year and it is a significant difference from last year”, says Bertil Fjellström who is…
Vårdförbundet: Unsustainable work situation in the emergency room
The care association now demands measures for the work situation at the emergency department at Östersund Hospital. A triggering factor for making a work environment report now is that the emergency department has been reducing staffing by one nurse per day for the past month. “You don’t have time. You get a lack of recovery.…
A large proportion of covid cases are only traced via web forms
Despite the fact that the EU Infection Control Authority recommends a personal interview in connection with infection tracing of covid-19, a large proportion of those infected in Sweden only have to fill in a digital form. This is clear from Ekot’s survey. “I think it was complicated and lost focus after a while,” says Johan…
Giant bear shot after protection hunt
A large bear, which despite having just stepped out of the den weighed a full 263 kilos, was shot on Thursday in the Bräcke area. This is since the county administrative board in Jämtland County last week granted protection hunting for the bear because it is said to have hunted and killed reindeer belonging to…
Support purchases of art will help artists in the north
The four northernmost regions will buy art together to support artists in Jämtland-Härjedalen, Västernorrland, Västerbotten and Norrbotten. An amount of a total of SEK 850,000 has been set aside for the purchase of works of art to be placed in public care environments. “It’s great now that all galleries, biennials and fairs are closed,” says…
Kalle Anjevall sat for over four hours in hunting rest
On Thursday, 14-year-old Kalle Anjevall from Östersund set what appears to be a Swedish record in hunting rest, ie sitting with his legs at 90 degrees with his back against a wall. It was when his eighth grade at Torvallaskolan in Östersund was to end the sports lesson with the exercise and most of the…
Region JH: Tourism has not increased the spread of infection
Tourism has not contributed to any increased infection at mountain destinations in Jämtland County. This is shown by evaluations made by Region Jämtland Härjedalen after the Christmas weekends and sports holiday weeks. “We can not see that tourism has contributed to any increased infection in society after either the sports holiday period or the previous…
Few infected show mass testing of seasonal employees
The large covid test of seasonal employees in Åre and the Vemdal area last week showed that few were infected. “This is a handful of cases,” says Annika Ersson, assistant infection control doctor at the Jämtland Härjedalen region to Ekot. In total, around 1,200 healthy and asymptomatic seasonal workers were screened for corona outbreaks among…
Sameby is sued for millions
About fifty landowners in western Härjedalen demand millions from the Sami village Ruvhten Sijte. Sami village chairman Marcus Rensberg understands the landowners’ demands, but thinks they are wrong: “Well, I understand that they want their money, but I think they have directed the issue in the wrong direction. I think they should direct it towards…
Limited spread of covid-19 in Åre despite sports holidays
The number of cases of confirmed covid-19 has increased recently in Åre municipality due to the start of the sports holiday celebrations. But the number of confirmed cases does not automatically mean increased infection spread, says Micael Widerström, infection control doctor at the Jämtland Härjedalen region. “2/3 of all cases that are detected are quarantined,…
Ski resorts can be closed in the event of major corona outbreaks
If there is a major covid outbreak before or during the sports holiday, the authorities are prepared to close, for example, lift facilities. Johan Carlson, Director General of the Swedish Public Health Agency, tells P4 Västerbotten, referring to the increased number of infections reported from Åre. “We are always prepared for major outbreaks, but so…
Infection control doctor: Ski tourists contribute to increased spread of infection
In Åre, the number of self-tests of suspected covid-19 more than doubled last week, which was the first of the sports holiday. Guests in both Åre and Sälen accounted for a significant part of the number of confirmed cases. “15 percent are guests who may not have been infected in Åre, but had the infection…
Different assessments of child and juvenile judges convicted of sexual offenses
A review conducted by the P1 program Kaliber shows various assessments of child and youth judges convicted of sexual offenses. Jämtland-Härjedalen had a person, who they knew was convicted of sexual crimes against two women, referee football for minors. “I think this arouses great emotions and yes, it may make it impossible for him to…
More have visited the emergency room after an ice rink
At the Orthopedic Clinic in Västerås, there were 40 more people than usual. The emergency department in Norrköping also noticed the effects of this – about 20 people had to go to the emergency room. SMHI has issued a class-1 warning for sudden ice slides in the counties of Värmland, Dalarna, Jämtland, Västernorrland and Gävleborg…
Great avalanche danger in the Swedish mountains
There is currently significant avalanche danger in several places in the Swedish mountains and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency warns that the danger persists until Saturday evening. The warning applies to Västra Härjedalsfjällen, southern Jämtlandsfjällen, southern Lapplandsfjällen, western Vindelfjällen and in Riksgränsfjällen. According to the warning, the weight of a skier or a snowmobile rider…
Differences in regions’ vaccination rates
It is difficult to know for sure how many have been vaccinated so far in the different regions. But the differences are large, if you compare how many of the doses they received delivered that were sent out to those who are to be vaccinated, according to the Public Health Agency’s figures. In the Jämtland-Härjedalen…
Sharply increased waiting times at BUP in Region Jämtland Härjedalen
The waiting time for an appointment in child and adolescent psychiatry in Region Jämtland Härjedalen has deteriorated sharply compared with previous years. In 2019, just over 60 percent of new visitors received a first meeting within 30 days, during the past year it has been halved. Only about 30 percent got an appointment within 30…
Protection hunt for lynx outside Stugun
The County Administrative Board of Jämtland has granted protection hunting for a lynx on land north of Stugun which Jijnjevaerie Sami village uses for winter grazing. According to the Sami village, traces of lynx have been seen in an area where the Sami village has 1,500 reindeer and one reindeer is said to have been…
Challenge for the home care service when the snowstorm continues
The heavy snowstorm in Norrland continues to keep Ångermanland and parts of Jämtland in its grip, and the home care service is facing major challenges. Right now, about 6,000 of the energy company Eon’s customers are without electricity in Västernorrland and Jämtland counties, and there have also been problems with mobile telephony in some places.…
70 centimeters of snow are expected – so Sweden will be hit by the snow chaos
Train traffic between Sundsvall and Umeå will be canceled from 8 pm tonight, according to the Swedish Transport Administration, which also encourages motorists in Västernorrland to stay at home. SMHI has issued a class 3 warning for Västernorrland County, which is the most serious warning class. “Class 3 is a very sharp warning, you can…
SMHI upgrades the snow warning – can be up to 40 centimeters
SMHI has upgraded its weather warning to a class 2 warning for heavy snowfall that can cause heavy drift, in Jämtland County except the mountains. The warning applies mainly in the northern part of the county. From tonight until Tuesday afternoon, between 20 and 40 centimeters of snow are now forecast, locally more. According to…
Good start to the season for the county’s smaller ski resorts
During the Christmas and New Year weekend, there have been a lot of tourists at the slightly smaller ski resorts in the county, it shows a tour that P4 Jämtland has done. Funäsfjällen had a 35 percent increase in bookings made via the destination company’s website over Christmas, New Year and the thirteenth weekend. Bydalsfjällen…
The mountain rescue warns of thin ice
Right now there are a lot of people moving in the Jämtland mountains. At the same time, the mild weather has made it icy weak and it has also snowed a lot lately, something that can lead to accidents. Mountain rescuer Rickard Svedjesten is now issuing a call for caution to both those who drive…
VMA in Östersund, Jämtland County •
At a quarter to ten on Tuesday evening, the alarm went off about a shooting in Tensta in northwest Stockholm, two people were found injured in Tensta center and a moment later another person was found shot in an apartment in the area. The police confirm to Swedish Radio that one of the injured has…
VMA in Östersund, Jämtland County •
Today, the British Parliament will debate and vote on the free trade agreement that the British government concluded with the EU on Christmas Eve, and the agreement is expected to go through with a very large majority. Boris Johnson will give the introductory speech and say, among other things, that the agreement means that the…
VMA in Östersund, Jämtland County •
In 2020, charges were brought in four suspected cases of insider trading and there were two convictions. Difficulty in obtaining sustainable evidence lies behind the fact that so few are prosecuted for insider trading, ie that they have used information that has not been generally known to make share transactions. Chief Prosecutor Gunilla Sandblom at…
The police attacked criminals in Åre
The police in Jämtland Härjedalen give themselves a Christmas present on the shoulder on their Facebook page. It describes how 13 people with links to serious crime from southern Sweden were greeted by the Jämtland police where they had checked in at a hotel in Åre and how the police cooperated with security guards. Police…
Uncertainty complicates information campaigns about Covid vaccination
The country’s regions are currently preparing major information campaigns for the public about the vaccinations against Covid-19. But the uncertainty surrounding details such as exact dates and facts about the different vaccine types is described as major challenges. “We do not want to go out with the information campaigns so far before so that you…
Concerns in several regions ahead of upcoming major holidays
Almost half of Sweden’s regions are worried that they will not have enough staff over Christmas and New Year, according to a survey conducted by Ekot. Many answer that they have or will have to refuse or cancel holidays. “It is an enormous planning to put this puzzle together,” says Katarina Andersson, Deputy Hospital Director…
Östersund will be without a regiment – still believes in establishing a defense
Today, Tuesday, the Riksdag will make a decision on where the Armed Forces will expand its activities in the coming years. Östersund was for a long time relevant to get a full-scale regiment again. But in the political negotiations during the autumn, it shrank to a Field Hunters Association which, at least to begin with,…
Bulgarian “Maria” in debt after emergency caesarean section in Sweden
Amnesty Sweden now wants Sweden to close the gap that allows EU citizens who do not have a European health insurance card to pay dearly for emergency care in Sweden. Bulgarian “Maria” performed an emergency caesarean section in Gävle this summer and now owes the Gävleborg Region just over SEK 150,000. Region Gävleborg considers itself…
The social manager: One of the municipality’s biggest challenges
Tens of thousands of people need to be newly employed in elderly care until 2030, when the number of elderly people over the age of 80 will have doubled. According to Anna Bjerkestedt Jonsson, social manager in Krokom’s municipality in Jämtland, recruitment to health and care is one of the municipality’s biggest challenges in the…
Police: Calmer than usual after stopping alcohol
It has been calmer than usual for the police in many parts of the country, after the alcohol ban on restaurants and restaurants was introduced last night. In some places, no restaurant-related cases have been reported at all. – There have been very few people in the city, at least in Malmö. It spontaneously feels…
Risk of slipping in central Sweden
SMHI warns of risk of sudden ice slide in large parts of central Sweden on Saturday. In Norrbotten County’s coastline, heavy snowfall can cause problems. These are so-called class 1 warnings, the lower degree, for sudden ice slides in Värmland, Dalarna and Gävleborg in the south, up to Jämtland and Västernorrland. – But we also…
Karin Termark Wisell: The situation is very serious
Another 19 deaths with confirmed covid-19 have been reported in Sweden, the Public Health Agency announces. Thus, a total of 6,340 infected people have died in the country. A total of 201,055 people in Sweden have been confirmed infected with covid-19. 3,016 people with covid-19 have so far been intensively cared for in Sweden, a…
L-call for information on the government issue
About 40 members of the Liberals are now going out in a joint appeal and demand that the party leadership and Nyamko Sabuni already declare that the party wants to be part of a bourgeois government after the next election. -– In any case, we strongly urge the party leadership to agree that we should…
Work commuters to Norway may be forced to sit in quarantine
Norway will probably no longer have exceptions from the rules on quarantine for people who come from Jämtland to Norway to work. This is stated by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang. The government decides the matter, but FHI, the Norwegian public health authority, believes that the exemption for people from Jämtland should be removed because…
Preschool staff are entitled to visors and mouth guards
The Swedish Work Environment Authority has decided that staff at a preschool in Bergs municipality in Jämtland should be allowed to protect themselves with mouth guards and visors against corona infection. The protective equipment must be provided by the employer, reports TV4 Nyheterna. The decision is unfortunate, thinks Anneli Olofsson, head of education in Bergs…
Stockholm opens up for home tests again
Tomorrow, Stockholm opens up for home tests of corona infection again, after the region’s laboratories were overloaded last week. In large parts of the country, the number of newly discovered cases is now also increasing very rapidly. – It is a very serious situation that the spread of infection, or that the number of infected…
Winter is here – and so is the ice rink
The first meteorological winter has come to Sweden. From Trerikesröset in the north to Åre in the south, the daily average temperature has been zero degrees or lower for at least five days. At the same time, SMHI has also issued a class 1 warning for snowfall from Sunday afternoon until the night towards Monday…
The number of cultural schools threatened with closure has doubled in two years
Several cultural schools in Jämtland are flagging threats of closure within four years. The number of cultural schools that flag that there may be talk of closure within four years has doubled in Sweden. The interest organization Kulturskolerådet conducts an annual survey on what it looks like financially to run culture and music schools in…
Class 1 warns of snowstorms
SMHI extends its Class-1 warnings to several counties where it is expected to fall between 5-15 centimeters of snow. Jämtland County, Västernorrland, Gothenburg County, Dalarna County except the Dala Mountains, Värmland and Västmanland and Örebro. These are at risk of severe snowstorms. In Värmland is expected between five and ten centimeters of snow already the…
Anger that the night trains are ending
Norrbotten’s Governor Björn O Nilsson is very critical of the cessation of night train traffic between Gothenburg and Norrbotten. He tells Norr Media that it is a disaster, as communications and infrastructure are crucial for the region to develop. The reason for the trains being removed is that the transport company Vy takes over the…
New rules on corona infection in the home are delayed in some places
In several regions, the new rules of conduct delay young people and adults living with a corona infection from staying at home for a week. About half of the country’s regions are now starting to use the new rules of conduct to reduce the risk of the spread of infection, but in several places this…
More beekeepers are seeking compensation for honey-hungry bears
The number of beekeepers seeking compensation from the county administrative board after bears attacked their hives has increased drastically in the county over the past two years. From being 0-5 cases per year between 2010 and 2018, it has increased to over 20 per year during 2019 and 2020. This is shown by statistics from…
The first snow reports of the season
The first snow has come in Jämtland County. In Storlien, SMHI reported a snow depth of one centimeter on Friday morning. Tänndalen in Härjedalen has also received the first snow of the season, it fell on Thursday. “You get a little happy anyway”, says Rasmus Bent who is the manager of the ski resort in…
VMA in Norrköping, Östergötland.
Forest owners are worried about a fungus that attacks pine forests. It is the fungus, dry catfish that has now spread to the county and in the long run can lead to major economic losses for forest owners. Törskate is a root fungus that forms large crayfish wounds that eventually choke the water and nutrient…
Exercise should make disabled people healthier
Many intellectually disabled people suffer from ill health, which is why a special training program has been developed at Mid Sweden University. The program will be tested at municipal group housing in Jämtland County during the autumn. Participants have to go through various physical tests, they are weighed and a machine measures their muscle mass.…
SKR: Local restraining orders can stop new infection
On the first of October, the approximately 88,000 elderly people in the country’s homes will receive visits again – a message that was met with shouts of joy. But Sweden’s Municipalities and Regions, SKR, think that the municipalities should have better tools to deal with local outbreaks. – Finally, maybe you can come there and…
VMA in Sävenäs in Gothenburg Municipality, Västra Götaland County
The Norwegian National Institute of Public Health proposes that the travel restrictions for Värmland and five other counties in the country (Örebro, Gotland, Västernorrland, Jämtland and Västerbotten) be removed. According to the National Institute of Public Health, these regions are clearly below 20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and the development in recent weeks has shown…