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Today in Denmark: A roundup of the news on Friday

Thousands of lightning strikes, shocking figure for child poverty in Copenhagen, Danish rider returns for Tour de France and more news from Denmark this Friday.

Published: 28 June 2024 07:12 CEST
Today in Denmark: A roundup of the news on Friday
Denmark's Olympic rowing team take a Viking boat for a spin on Roskilde Fjord on Thursday. Photo: Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix

31,000 lightning strikes registered in Jutland

Thunderstorms across southern and western Jutland night brought over 31,000 lightning strikes in the region, broadcaster DR reports.

Residents in the area also report hailstones that, in a least one case, we big enough to rip through terrace roofing.

The storms signal the end of the hot weather spell this week, with more moderate temperatures forecast this weekend.

Vocabulary: lynnedslag – lightning strike

5,000 children ‘live in poverty’ in Copenhagen

As many as 5,000 children in Copenhagen live in poverty according to a new review from the city’s municipal Finance Committee (Økonomiudvalg).

Around half of the children live in the Brønshøj-Husum, Bispebjerg and Nørrebro districts. The number represents around five percent of the total number of children who live in the city.

More should be done to support charities that fight child poverty, Karina Vestergård Madsen, an elected municipal councillor said.

“What we need focus on is support for organisations in civil society like Save the Children and Mødrehjælpen who can give them some good experiences which they can’t afford,” she said to DR.

Vocabulary: fattigdom – poverty

Road-rusty Vingegaard set for Tour de France duel with rival Pogačar 

Two-time Danish Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard faces a serious challenge in the form of longstanding rival Tadej Pogačar when the tour sets off from the Italian city of Florence on Saturday.

Team Visma’s Vingegaard hasn’t raced since suffering multiple fractures in a fall in March but recently declared himself fit for the Tour, the biggest event in cycling.

Vingegaard’s fall offers Slovenia’s Pogačar a chance at revenge for the brutal manner in which the Dane crushed him on two Alpine stages late in the 2023 edition.

“I’ve tested my legs a little and to be honest, I’ve never felt so good on a bike,” Pogačar, a back-to-back winner in 2020 and 2021, told news agency AFP.

“Everyone thinks that I’m going to win the Tour every year, but I didn’t win the last two times,” he said.

Vocabulary: et styrt – a fall/crash (on a bike)

Blaze at Tax Ministry put out by firefighters

A fire at Denmark’s Tax Ministry yesterday was swiftly extinguished after the building was evacuated.

A fire broke out on during the morning on the roof of the building in central Copenhagen which houses Denmark’s Tax Ministry as well as some residential flats.

The building is located very close to the Old Stock Exchange (Børsen), which suffered a devastating fire earlier this year. The Tax Ministry building is a modern building, unlike the historic Børsen, and is on the opposite side of Copenhagen Harbour on Nicolai Eigtveds Gade.

READ ALSO: Why have there been so many fires in Copenhagen this year?

Vocabulary: den modsatte side – the opposite side

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Today in Denmark: A roundup of the news on Wednesday

Police make major discovery after explosion, July weather to be mixed, youth mental health treatment times lag in Copenhagen and more news from Denmark on Wednesday.

Published: 3 July 2024 08:58 CEST
Today in Denmark: A roundup of the news on Wednesday

Deadly blast leads police to explosives cache

An explosion in Zealand town Korsør on Monday has resulted in police finding a huge stock of explosives.

Authorities found nearly a tonne of explosives and chemicals at the scene of the large, accidental blast, which killed a 52-year-old man.

Around 100 people living within half a kilometre of the site near Korsør were evacuated while authorities removed a “large quantity of explosive substances and chemicals”, police said.

“We’re not talking about a few kilos, we’re talking about almost a tonne,” police officer Tom Trude told broadcaster TV2.

“We don’t know exactly how much, so we’re obviously going to weigh it and then test it to see exactly what it is,” Trude added.

Vocabulary: en mængde – an amount 

Monthly weather forecast casts shadow over chance of sun

There’s no guarantee of classic hot summer weather in July, according to the one-month forecast from the national meteorological agency DMI.

There will be individual days with plenty of sun but temperatures are expected to be moderate.

“This week will bring mixed weather,” DMI’s report states.

“There will be periods of inconsistent weather with clouds, rain, showers and only a little sun, while high pressure during other periods will give more sunny and dry weather,” it continues.

The average temperature will range between 16 and 23 degrees Celsius.

Vocabulary: omskiftelig – inconsistent

Waiting times ‘too long’ for mental health treatment for Copenhagen’s young people

Only 13 percent of patients in children’s and youth mental health departments in the Greater Copenhagen region were examined within 30 days of referral, according to a review by the regional health authority reported by Sundhedsmonitor.

The figures are from March, April and May this year.

The head of a professional society for child psychiatrists called the number “our biggest failure at the moment”.

“if we’d seen these numbers for cancer or heart disease treatment, some funding would surely be found for the area somehow,” Nina Tejs Jørring of the Børne- og Ungdomspsykiatrisk Selskab told Sundhedsmonitor.

The target for treatment times in the region is 30 days for 70 percent of patients at children’s mental health departments.

Vocabulary: midler – resources/funding

Seven in ten ‘fear attack’ on critical digital infrastructure

A cyber-attack on critical structure such as phone networks or power supplies is a concern for a high number of people in Denmark, according to an analysis by the institute Analyse Danmark on behalf of the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA).

In the survey of 2,000 people, around seven in ten said that, to either “some”, “high” or “very high” extent, a concerned by a cyber-attack by foreign actors on mobile or internet connections, endangering things like heating and electricity.

That comes after the Danish Emergency Management Service (DEMA) last month issued advice for the general public to have certain supplies at home so that they are prepared in the event of a crisis.

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