Tag: Uddevalla

  • Update yourself with today's most important news in Ekot

    Update yourself with today's most important news in Ekot

    In Ekot 16.45 today, it is, among other things, about the serious train accident that occurred in Uddevalla this morning. In addition, about several separate attacks in Israel where a woman died and at least 17 were injured. There will also be a report from the USA with correspondent Ginna Lindberg that the election year…

  • The man without memory

    The man without memory

    In the summer of 2013, the story of the American Michael Boatwright breaks. Media around the world are reporting that he has been found unconscious in a motel in California. He remembers nothing of his past life, and now they are trying to piece together his story. Eva Espling sits at home in Uddevalla. She…

  • Behind the scenes at the UN, the row over the ore railway and Fukuyama, the political scientist who was wrong – or?

    Behind the scenes at the UN, the row over the ore railway and Fukuyama, the political scientist who was wrong – or?

    HOUR 1 The UN General Assembly has opened and heads of state and ministers have replaced each other in the speaker’s chair during the week; yesterday the Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström spoke. USA Correspondent Ginna Lindberg reports. When will we see an end to gang violence? Fryshuset’s CEO Johan Oljeqvistpolice chief Carin Götblad and…

  • Thomas Stenström – the small town guy who defeated jante

    Thomas Stenström – the small town guy who defeated jante

    It’s a summer evening in 2015. Sweden’s new rising star, the artist and songwriter Thomas Stenström, is out on tour. The crowd is great along the picket fence. The audience eagerly waits for Thomas and his band to come on stage. The atmosphere among the concertgoers could not have been better. But, what the tagged…

  • Danish News Round-up: Lung overtakes the breast as the most common cancer in Denmark

    Danish News Round-up: Lung overtakes the breast as the most common cancer in Denmark

    ‘Cancer in Denmark’, a new report published by the Danish Cancer Society, showed that cancer of the lungs, bronchi and trachea has overtaken breast cancer as the most common form of the disease in Denmark. In 2020, more than 5,000 people in Denmark were diagnosed with lung cancer against 4,800 cases of breast cancer. Most…

  • Large police operation when the gang trial began

    Large police operation when the gang trial began

    When the trial against ten gang criminals began on Monday, the police were on site with a special command – and the strength in Uddevalla District Court was doubled. Among the accused are six men who are described by the police as high-ranking in the criminal Kronogårdsnätverket in Trollhättan and who are said to have…

  • Emmalena Andersson is the Construction Woman of the Year – “gives me strength”

    Emmalena Andersson is the Construction Woman of the Year – “gives me strength”

    The award “Building Woman of the Year” has been nominated for the first time, and the prize goes to the sheet metal worker and construction manager Emmalena Andersson from Uddevalla, something that Bohusläningen was the first to report. As a young woman in the construction industry, sexual harassment became everyday and in the end she…

  • Prosecutors begin preliminary investigation into abuse

    Prosecutors begin preliminary investigation into abuse

    Prosecutors are now initiating a preliminary investigation after two women, including Annie Dahlberg from Uddevalla, reported that they had been subjected to sexual crimes during a recording of the reality series Paradise Hotel. No person has been notified of suspicion of crime at this stage, but one of the male participants in the reality show…

  • Murder suspect 15-year-old may be detained until this summer – “Not optimal”

    Murder suspect 15-year-old may be detained until this summer – “Not optimal”

    It will be at least until the summer before prosecution can be brought after the knife murder in central Uddevalla in February. This means that those who are in custody, several of whom are under the age of 18, will probably be in custody for a while longer. “Of course, this is not optimal,” said…

  • Robbery among young boys is increasing – a gateway to continued crime

    Robbery among young boys is increasing – a gateway to continued crime

    The number of robberies committed by boys has doubled in Fyrbodal in recent years. “From having about 17 cases in 2017, we had 35 in 2020,” says Tony Bengtsson, municipal police in Uddevalla. According to a new study from the Crime Prevention Council, Brå, robbery is one of the crimes that most often leads to…

  • Right now

    Right now

    Train traffic between Strömstad and Uddevalla will be suspended all Friday due to strong winds in our area. The wind is expected to increase already on Thursday evening and SHMI has also issued a class 1 warning, which will take effect at midnight. “The winds will be able to be twenty-one to twenty-three meters per…

  • Prosecutors: More resources are needed to investigate sexual offenses against children

    Prosecutors: More resources are needed to investigate sexual offenses against children

    The fact that the number of reports and investigations of sexual abuse of children online is increasing requires special efforts from the police and prosecutors. The investigations often take a long time and the investigators must have the right skills. Eva Johnsson, Deputy Chief Prosecutor in Uddevalla, who has been the head of the preliminary…

  • Large increase in investigations of grooming crimes against children

    Large increase in investigations of grooming crimes against children

    The number of police reports of the use of children for sexual posing increased by more than 60 percent last year compared to 2019, according to statistics from the Swedish Crime Prevention Council. The increase can also be seen in the Public Prosecutor’s Office’s annual report of the number of investigations, these are serious crimes,…

  • Right now

    Right now

    Despite the fact that there are only two months left until the student, it is unclear how the student celebration will go in our area, it shows a tour that P4 West has done. Julia Thorberntsson is in her third year at the high school in Uddevalla. “Everything is very unclear,” she says to this…

  • Secret plan: Train at 400 km / h – between Gothenburg and Oslo

    Secret plan: Train at 400 km / h – between Gothenburg and Oslo

    A giant project with high-speed railways is planned, still in silence, for 100 billion between Oslo and Gothenburg, reports Today’s news. According to the plans, the trains will be able to run 400 km / h. “This is all over Europe and the rest of the world, and at some point it must come here…

  • After the accident – train traffic canceled on Tuesday

    After the accident – train traffic canceled on Tuesday

    There are continued disruptions in train traffic on the section Uddevalla-Stenungsund-Gothenburg, after yesterday’s accident in Tuve on Hisingen. It is expected that train traffic will resume no earlier than Wednesday morning. The canceled departures are replaced by bus.

  • Managed to shorten the operation queues – despite the pandemic

    Managed to shorten the operation queues – despite the pandemic

    Despite the pandemic year, the queues for surgery in NU healthcare, Näl in Trollhättan and Uddevalla hospital, were shorter at the end of 2020 compared to 2019, something that healthcare had not expected because non-emergency surgeries were canceled during the first and second coronary waves. The queue was shorter at the end of 2020, both…

  • Two people died after collision between truck and train

    Two people died after collision between truck and train

    Two people have died after a collision between a truck and a train on Wednesday. It was at 17 o’clock in the afternoon that the vehicles collided, at the height of Salekärr outside Uddevalla. The police have initiated a preliminary investigation into negligence in traffic and causing another person’s death. Relatives are notified.

  • A man from Dalsland is charged with aggravated rape of a child

    A man from Dalsland is charged with aggravated rape of a child

    A man in his 40s from Dalsland is charged with, among other things, aggravated rape of a child, as he allegedly exploited young girls via the internet by persuading them to take photos and film when they perform sexual acts on themselves. Deputy Chief Prosecutor Eva Johnsson at the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Uddevalla believes…

  • Agreements gave the search organization a bonus for appearing in the media

    Agreements gave the search organization a bonus for appearing in the media

    The search for the missing 17-year-old in Uddevalla last year gave the non-profit search organization Fikk a great impact in the media. Now P4 Väst can tell that Fikk had an agreement with a telemarketing company which meant that the association received a bonus when the search for missing persons was noticed by established media.…

  • Criminal case piled up – Uddevalla worst in the country

    Criminal case piled up – Uddevalla worst in the country

    Cases to Sweden’s district courts are piled up. And of the country’s 48 district courts, it is the worst in Uddevalla, this reports Bohusläningen. During the last twelve months, Uddevalla District Court had had 1,054 criminal cases piled up pending being decided. In legal parlance, this intermediate position is called a goal in balance. The…

  • Long sentences after record-breaking cocaine seizures

    Long sentences after record-breaking cocaine seizures

    Three men were sentenced today to eight years in prison after the record-breaking cocaine seizure, just over 60 kilos, in the port of Uddevalla in March. The men were caught red-handed when they retrieved the cocaine from a Colombian ship that was in the port, they also filmed themselves during the smuggling. The three are…

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    Right now

    In September, six Greenpeace activists entered Preemraff’s port area in Lysekil. Activists at Uddevalla District Court are now being prosecuted for unauthorized access to protected objects. Activists climbed into the unloading facilities in the oil port in protest of Preem’s then plans to expand. The action was the culmination of a two-week protest when, among…

  • Smuggled cocaine for 100 million – now the trial begins

    Smuggled cocaine for 100 million – now the trial begins

    Today, the trial begins in Uddevalla District Court against the three men who are suspected of extremely serious drug smuggling in connection with the large cocaine seizure that was made in Uddevalla harbor in March. The evidence is strong, according to the prosecutor, because the men themselves filmed the entire process in the harbor with…

  • Very strong wind gusts cancel train and ferry traffic in western Sweden

    Very strong wind gusts cancel train and ferry traffic in western Sweden

    We notice the remnants of Hurricane Zeta that ravaged the United States today. Therefore, SMHI has issued a class 1 warning for very strong wind gusts. The warning is valid during the night until Tuesday, but according to SMHI, the wind will continue for a while into the week. This means that all train traffic…

  • No remains were found from the 17-year-old

    No remains were found from the 17-year-old

    In Uddevalla, around 90 volunteer divers from all over Sweden searched yesterday for the remains of the 17-year-old girl who was murdered about a year ago. But nothing was found during the operation. The girl disappeared in November last year and her ex-boyfriend was recently sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder and breach…

  • Young people had started to let go of the corona requirements – were back at the pub and the gym

    Young people had started to let go of the corona requirements – were back at the pub and the gym

    Almost one in four people aged 18-29 had found their way back to the cinema, gym or tavern again before the new, stricter restrictions were introduced on Thursday. This is shown by a survey from Novus carried out on behalf of the P4 channels in western Sweden. “I have not noticed that people do not…

  • A full day in the exam room for those who write the college exam today

    A full day in the exam room for those who write the college exam today

    This autumn’s university exam is characterized by the corona pandemic with fewer participants and protective measures, but it is still a full day in the exam room for the total of 27,000 Swedes who write the exam today. In our area, the test is held in Trollhättan, Vänersborg, Åmål and Uddevalla. Louise, who writes the…

  • Animals were rescued from a burning barn

    Animals were rescued from a burning barn

    At 15 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, a barn in Äskebacka in Uddevalla municipality started to burn and about an hour later the barn was completely overheated. The rescue service says that initially there were bulls inside the barn that neighbors managed to help out, no one should have been injured. On Saturday afternoon, the rescue…

  • Right now

    Right now

    Today, the three men who were arrested in March after the Swedish Customs seized over 60 kilos of cocaine in the port of Uddevalla are being prosecuted. There is strong evidence, says Gill Eriksson, deputy head of the Swedish Customs, when one of the suspects was wearing a camera and filmed the entire process when…

  • Triple oil spills eludes authorities: “A mystery”

    Triple oil spills eludes authorities: “A mystery”

    In the past month, three oil spills have been discovered in Byfjorden in Uddevalla. The latest as late as Sunday. Despite the fact that both the Coast Guard and the rescue service have been looking for the cause of the leaks, it has not been found. Two of the emissions are investigated as suspected environmental…

  • The 17-year-old’s boyfriend continues to claim his innocence

    The 17-year-old’s boyfriend continues to claim his innocence

    Today, the Court of Appeal negotiations on the murder of a 17-year-old girl in Uddevalla ended in November last year. The accused, the girl’s 23-year-old boyfriend, was sentenced this summer to life in prison for murder and breach of the peace. He has always denied. In court today, he gave a short speech and then…

  • Increased problems with young people who are drawn into gang crime

    Increased problems with young people who are drawn into gang crime

    In several municipalities in the country, there are increasing problems with children, some only 9-10 years old, being drawn into gang crime. It shows a survey that the news agency TT sent to the municipalities’ social services. The problem is noticeable not only in the city districts and surrounding municipalities, but also in smaller cities.…