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Mangen Constructions in bankruptcy danger
February 17, 2012
Friday saw more bad news for Luxembourg’s economy. As radio station 100,7 reported, Steinfort-based company Mangen Constructions has filed for bankruptcy. The company, which employs roughly 200 people, is said to have had financial problems for the last few months. As was the case with Socimmo, the fi…
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February 17, 2012
An aggressive vandal in Esch ended up in hospital on Thursday evening because of his own silly actions. Just after 6pm, a woman sitting in her car in Rue A.Krier caught the offender casually scraping the bodywork of her vehicle with a key as he walked by. As the woman got out to confront the man, she …
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5 driver’s licences confiscated in night-time check
February 17, 2012
Police weren’t joking earlier this week when they warned motorists about increased alcohol breath tests during the carnival period. Sure enough, as the first big carnival parties got under way o…
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Setback for new Auchan in Gasperich
February 16, 2012
The project of a new Auchan shopping centre in the so-called Ban de Gasperich between Howald and Cloche d’Or/Gasperich has suffered a setback. Luxembourg-City mayor Xavier Bettel told RTL that there will be no building permit handed out until plans for the adjacent Boulevard Raiffeisen are known. This…
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Number of asylum seekers on the rise again
February 16, 2012
The influx of asylum seekers to Luxembourg is not receding. On Wednesday, immigration services published the latest figures, looking at the first month of the new year. In January 2012, 223 arrived in Luxembourg asking for asylum, or in other words, international protection. That’s a marked increase c…
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Chemolux to ax 48 to 110 employees
February 15, 2012
Trade union LCGB has announced that the Foetz-based chemical company Chemolux is laying off staff. The company, which belongs to British group McBride, has , in fact, lost one of its main contracts, producing dishwasher tablets and salt for German company Henkel. This will take effect in March 2012.
Number of smokers in Luxembourg at record low
February 15, 2012
On Wednesday the Luxembourgish cancer foundation presented the results of its annual smoking survey. For the 2011 edition, 5,839 people were asked if they smoked or not, how regularly an if they were thinking of quitting.
All in all, 22 % of Luxembourg residents curre…
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Elderly woman robbed in Ettelbrück
February 15, 2012
On Tuesday afternoon an elderly woman was robbed outside the CAPE cultural centre in Ettelbrück. A young man snatched her hand bag off her shoulder and ran away with it. A man that witnessed the crime ran after the offender but couldn’t catch him.
The thief did …
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France-Ireland rescheduled for 4 March
February 15, 2012
The first game in the history of the Six Nations Championship to have been postponed will now go ahead on Sunday, 4 March at 3pm. Last Saturday evening, the game was called off, a mere 10 minutes before the kick-off, with 79,000 people in the Stade de France and the marching band already on the pitch,…
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85 % satisfied with out of town buses
February 14, 2012
On Tuesday, sustainability minister Claude Wiseler, also in charge of transport affairs, presented the results of a recent survey on people’s opinion of RGTR buses. These are buses that are used on out of town routes, so not on in Luxembourg-City. The Luxembourg state currently has a binding contract …
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