Oxford News
Oxford hospitals charge more for parking
Oxford hospitals have announced steep increases in parking charges from the beginning of July. One hour goes up from the present £1 to £1.40 and a three-hour stay goes up from £3 to...
Barcelona News
Centred at its original home on Montjuïc the Grec Festival runs from 30 June-31 July this year. It is a mix of music, dance, theatre, opera and circus and gets its name from Teatre Grec where it...
Copenhagen News
Danish visa applications to be quicker
Denmark may make it easier for foreigners to get visas according to a government-backed report supported by the tourist industry and business groups.
Companies approved for the scheme would be able...
London News
London ministry becomes home for seniors
A development of one-bedroom apartments designed for wealthy seniors citizens is planned for London’s central Victoria area.
About 50 apartments, with a starting price £1.2 million, are...
Jersey News
Jersey Post shows drop in turnover
Jersey Post returned a small profit in 2012 even though turnover was down 33 per cent to €44 million.
Most of the loss in turnover came from a decision taken in the UK that low-cost items mail...
Madrid News
Madrid hopes for 2020 Olympics
Madrid lined up support for its 2020 Olympic bid with an evening of sporting events on 23 June against a background of continuing protests in Brazil about the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 201...
Dublin News
Dublin City Council is continuing to remove clumps of “love locks” attached to bridges around the capital, most notably from Ha’penny Bridge and Millennium Bridge, both located in th...
Paris News
Paris has launched an initiative to make life more welcoming for the 29 million tourists that visit the city each year.
To counter the image that Parisians are unfriendly and unhelpful the regional...
Berlin News
Berlin Palace gets cornerstone
The cornerstone was laid for the Berliner Schloss in mid-June but without the support of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and surrounded by criticism that the palace is an unnecessary and expensive p...
Oxford News
Oxford’s Westgate development goes public
Plans for the new Westgate development, to be presented for public consultation mid June, will include 70 shopping units as well as a branch of the John Lewis department store.
There will be four o...
Vienna News
Danube Island Festival marks 30 years
The Danube Island Festival celebrates 30 years on 20-23 June with 600 events and 2,000 musicians and entertainers. It is one of Europe’s largest free open-air music festivals and attracts about...
Brussels News
Brussels is organising a bulky waste collection until 22 June. Special containers are supplied on the streets and information about collection is circulated previously in each area. The cleaning servi...
Brussels News
New parking rules start in Brussels
New parking regulations go into effect in Brussels on 15 June. However in the new parking areas of Laeken, which has now been transformed into one zone, there will be no parking controls until 1 July...
Amsterdam News
22-23 June sees a major weekend celebration to mark the reopening of Amsterdam’s three major museums, the Rijksmuseum, the Stedelijk and the Van Gogh at the Museumplein hub. There will be late-n...
Dublin News
Shortlist of names for new Dublin bridge
Dublin City Council has announced the shortlist for the name of the new bridge over the river Liffey connecting Marlborough Street and Eden Quay on the north side with Hawkins St and Burgh Quay on the...
Dublin News
Dublin’s Phil Lynott statue vandalised
The popular statue of Dublin musician Phil Lynott has been removed from its city-centre location after it was vandalised in the early hours of 11 May.
The life-size bronze monument of the late Thin...
Brussels News
New parking regulations in Brussels
Brussels has announced new parking regulations that will begin on 15 June. They involve additional blue parking zones in some Laeken streets in north-west Brussels, the extension of parking regulation...
Barcelona News
Barcelona promotes automobile innovation
To coincide with the opening of the Barcelona Motor Fair on 11 May the head of the Catalan government, Artur Mas, has announced a plan for a car and motorbike cluster in the Barcelona area to support...
Berlin News
Speeding is one of the top traffic offences in Germany according to figures published in May by the Federal Motor Transport Authority. Both men and women have more points on their licences for driving...
Jersey News
Jersey releases Red Cross stamps
To coincide with Liberation Day celebrations in Jersey on 9 May the Jersey Post is to release new stamps commemorating the 150th anniversary of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement....
Copenhagen News
Copenhagen opens second cycle superhighway
A second superhighway for bikes has opened in Copenhagen, from Farum about 20 kms to the northwest of the city centre.
It is part of a scheme for 28 super highways for bicycles, which the city hope...
Jersey News
Jersey votes for electoral reform
Voters in Jersey decided in a referendum on 24 April that they want to change the island’s present electoral system but also to keep some elements of the old.
Of the three options put to the...
London News
Londoners unhappy with Boris bikes
Boris bikes, named after Boris Johnson the mayor of London, are not quite as popular as they were when the scheme first came into operation three years ago.
An increase in costs, as well as difficu...
Madrid News
Mutua Madrid Open gives up blue clay
The Mutua Madrid Open tennis championships will be played in the capital city from 3-12 May. Both Roger Federer and Serena Williams will be defending last year’s titles.
The championships for...
Dublin News
Statue of Molly Malone to be moved
The statue of legendary Dublin street trader Molly Malone is to be moved by the end of this year to make way for the construction of the cross-city Luas tramline, known as the BXD, which will connect...
Vienna News
Vienna launches mobile hospice care for kids
Vienna has launched a mobile service to look after severely ill children in their homes.
There about 800 young people in the Vienna area with life-threatening illnesses, about 120 of whom die each...
Amsterdam News
Dutch plan to drop Monday postal deliveries
The minister of economic affairs has presented a proposal to parliament to cut postal deliveries on Mondays. At present the postal service PostNL NV, which is an independent company, is obliged by law...
Dublin News
Parnell Square to become cultural quarter
Dublin City Council has announced a €60 million plan to redevelop Parnell Square in the north inner city as a cultural quarter, in a project it describes as the “most important in 100 years...
Oxford News
Blackwell’s continues reorganisation
Oxford’s historic bookseller Blackwell’s is closing its library division in an effort to get the company back into profit. It is thought that about 55 people will be made redundant.
The...
Oxford News
New look for Oxford’s public toilets
Gloucester Green public toilets are ready for remodernisation now that temporary facilities have been established for the period of the upgrade.
The Oxford council says that it is planning to provi...
