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A car overturned in Leeuwarden on Sunday afternoon. That happened on Tesselschadestraat. The car hit a lamppost and then overturned. It is not known how the accident could have happened. The driver was able to get out of the car herself and did not have to go to the hospital.
A car overturned in Leeuwarden this afternoon. That happened on Tesselschadestraat. The car hit a lamppost and then overturned. It is not known how the accident could have happened. The driver was able to get out of the car herself and did not have to go to the hospital.
It should have been Jelte de Haan's sixth birthday next Tuesday. To commemorate his birthday and legacy, a documentary about him will be released this week: Jelte's Legacy. The documentary premiered on Sunday afternoon at De Harmonie in Leeuwarden, in the presence of Jelte's friends and family. Jelte had a metabolic disease and became nationally known as the face of various actions to raise money for research. He died last summer as a result of his illness.
“Stunningly beautiful and look how powerfully he shifts. What power.” During the Night of the Stallions at Indoor Friesland, stallion owners showed their top models from the showroom like true car dealers. Lightning fast Maserati, a solid Fjord and a spicy Toledo in acceleration.
In the coming evenings, a theater performance will take place in the Haaima garages in Heerenveen, Drachten, and Leeuwarden. The play revolves around the strained relationship between a mother and her son. An old car serves as the backdrop where their bond is put to the test.
Between the rains, the northern lights could be seen last night and last night. At least: through a lens. You can't see the so-called photographic northern lights with the naked eye, but with a camera you can. Especially in the southern half of the country, people had a chance to capture the northern lights.
Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden will probably have to close for a longer period from autumn 2027. The building on Grote Kerkstraat is awaiting a major sustainability operation and restoration.
A first for the Old Catholic Church in the Netherlands this afternoon. In the Sint Bavokerk, on the Grote Markt in Haarlem, a woman was consecrated as a bishop for the first time in Dutch history. After the big celebration, Erna Peijnenburg can call herself bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Haarlem. The Old Catholic Church is a small denomination, with more than 5,000 members.
Russian attacks on Kyiv Russia wants to break the Ukrainian resistance with large-scale air strikes on the energy infrastructure. And Kyiv is high on the list. That is in plans that Ukraine has managed to lay its hands on, writes The New York Times. Russia has been hitting Ukraine hard in recent weeks.
In 1942, the houseboat of the Van der Meer family from Leeuwarden sank near Echtenerbrug, where local residents saved them. Nearly 85 years later, descendants Yvon van der Meer and her cousin Jeltje Fopma are searching for the identity of these rescuers. They hope to finally express their gratitude to those involved or their surviving relatives.
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