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Two men (39 and 46 years) from Leeuwarden have been sentenced to prison for exploiting Thai prostitutes. The men would be part of a large international network. Read the lawsuit here.
A local resident of the airbase in Leeuwarden wanted the Woz value of his home to go down considerably. He demanded this in court because of PFAS pollution.
A local resident of the airbase in Leeuwarden wanted the Woz value of his home to go down considerably. He demanded this in court because of PFAS pollution.
Good morning! Today the government continues its search for support for the budget and this week extra attention is paid to fall prevention among the elderly. First the weather: in the north and west it will be a cloudy day with occasional showers. The sun shines regularly inland.
The month of September will end with unusually high temperatures for this time of year. On Tuesday and Wednesday, temperatures in the southeast of the country could reach 28 or 29 degrees Celsius. Cloud cover is expected to increase in the west and northwest during the evening and night.
A picture of a sword or pompeblêd, or the text Magna Frisia. Hundreds of people stood in one long line in front of the Frisian Museum in Leeuwarden on Saturday evening. Their goal: to score a free King Redbad-themed tattoo. “I don't think it's my turn anymore,” says a man waiting halfway across the Zaailand.
The Merwedebrug on the A27 highway has reopened to traffic as of late Saturday evening. Roadworks to apply a new asphalt layer between Gorinchem and Werkendam were completed faster than expected. The closure was originally scheduled to last until Monday morning.
Residents of a house in Doesburg have been startled for the second time in a single year after a car crashed into their home. The first incident occurred in December, when a car flipped over after hitting their garden wall. While the driver escaped unhurt, the glass front door and the facade of the house were damaged.
"My wife and I were eating in the restaurant and suddenly heard two loud bangs," says a witness to yesterday afternoon's murder on a terrace in Amsterdam-Noord. "People came running into the building, and then we heard they were gunshots." Many terrace visitors witnessed the shooting yesterday at the NDSM-werf in Amsterdam. On a sunny Friday afternoon, shortly after 15:00, a man was shot dead on a crowded terrace.
The bridge at Stroobos will remain closed to road traffic longer due to a software glitch. Although the pumping system has been replaced, the closure will now last through Monday, September 28. Rijkswaterstaat expects to resolve the issue on that day.
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