Weather: Dry and sunny week forecast

Monday has begun with clear, blue skies across Denmark and temperatures today could peak at 23 degrees Celsius.

“It’s almost as good as we’ve had it this summer,” met office DMI’s meteorologist Trine Pedersen said.

While there will be some clouds later, it will remain sunny – a pattern that also looks likely to continue through much of the week.

A high-pressure front will bring stable, dry and sunny weather with some winds until Wednesday, although lower pressure on Thursday and Friday could see more clouds with some showers.

Vocabulary: jævn – even  

Residents evacuated from fire at apartment building

A residential building in Zealand town Ringsted was evacuated by emergency services after fire broke out late last night, police confirmed on X(Twitter).

The fire was extinguished by around 11:30pm.

Four people were “affected” by smoke from the blaze, broadcaster TV2 reported.

Two apartments were reported destroyed in the fire and four others damaged.

“We have no indications as to how the fire started but that will be down to investigation and it is too early for us to comment,” a police spokesperson told news wire Ritzau.

Vocabulary: udbrændt – burnt-out

Justice Minister could consider new driving laws after fatal accident

The Justice Minister, Peter Hummelgaard, says he would not rule out changes to laws relating to driving bans. That came after two people were killed in an accident involving a 56-year-old driver who has epilepsy and was last year disqualified from driving on health grounds.

The man has now been charged with manslaughter and dangerous driving after the accident, which happened on Friday in Aarhus. He is reported by Ritzau to have driven at 121 km/h in a 50km/h zone and collided with another car and a barrier before then hitting a car with two passengers in their thirties, who both died.

“I am open to looking at whether there should be any changes in this area,” Hummelgaard told TV2 via email.

The charity for people with epilepsy, Epilepsiforeningen, said it is too easy to ignore driving bans and that the rules should be tightened, TV2 writes.

Vocabulary: ændringer – changes

Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark dies aged 85

Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, a renowned historian who stayed in Greece through its dictatorship years, died Sunday at the age of 85, media reports said.

The prince, the last surviving grandson of assassinated Greek monarch King George I and the great-grandson of Denmark’s King Christian IX, died in hospital in Athens, the Kathimerini newspaper website reported.

After his father died when he was one-year-old, the prince grew up in Morocco and Spain, and later studied in France.

Prince Michael was the only Greek royal to stay in the country after King Constantine I led a 1967 counter-coup against colonels who seized power months earlier. The king went into exile after his act. The dictatorship only ended in 1974.

The prince published dozens of works after 1970, combining his historical knowledge with literary narrative.

He focused on historical subjects, covering a vast range from Greece, the Ottoman Empire, focusing on several biographies about members of ruling dynasties.