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After two years of pandemic, Luleå’s traditional New Year’s fireworks were to celebrate the new year at Södra hamnen.

But now the municipality has canceled it at the last moment, reports Norrbottens-Kuriren.

The weather is causing it with snow and wind gusts up to 11 meters per second due to safety reasons.

– It is extremely sad, but after a safety analysis together with our pyrotechnicians, we have concluded that it is not possible to carry out the fireworks in a safe way, says Örjan Esensjö, responsible for the New Year’s celebration at Luleå municipality, to the newspaper.

It will also be windy in Umeå. Up to 13 meters per second are expected there in the gusts. But there the fireworks celebration will be held as usual, reports VK.

– We are driving, there are no problems at all. They have snow storms up there, the rubbish weather we had a day ago. We would have canceled if it had been the weather now, but here it looks like it will be great. It should be clear and 1 degree at 12, says Martin Uddestrand, project manager for the New Year’s fireworks.

A passenger car and an A-tractor have collided near Ödeborg, Färgelanda.

Several people witnessed the accident and when the emergency services arrived at the scene, the police were alerted.

When the police arrived at the scene of the accident, the driver of the passenger car was suspected of being under the influence. He was taken for testing and is suspected of drunk driving. There are no reports that anyone was injured in the collision.

Crafts, dancing and the children’s own drawings.

Now it’s over. An era goes to the grave.

SVT shuts down the television program Bolibompaklubben and thus stops framing its young children’s selection on linear television.

The change is seen as a modernization and comes into effect on January 2.

“We are reorganizing our production and developing Bolibompa’s universe into different play series and stop framing the selection for young children in broadcast,” writes Anna Alandh, head of children’s programs at SVT.

Read more here.

Two passenger cars have collided head-on just south of Abisko in Kiruna, write SVT Norrbotten.

Nine people are involved in the accident. Everyone must be awake and talkative, according to the channel.

According to the Swedish Transport Administration, the accident has a major impact on traffic.

Right now there is a stop in the train traffic between Arboga and Örebro due to an electrical fault, writes the Swedish Transport Agency on its website.

At the moment, there is no forecast for when traffic can resume.

According to SJ, a fault finding is underway.

Here you can see which stations are affected by the stop.

On New Year’s Eve, the new year would be celebrated with fireworks in the inner harbor in Örnsköldsvik.

But it is canceled after the organizers received several threats, reports Örnsköldsvik’s Allehanda.

“Very unpleasant that people who want to make a nice event for 95 percent of Örnsköldsvik’s citizens are threatened. Umeå and Sundsvall shoot at full blast, but in Örnsköldsvik there will be no collected, nice, well-ordered fireworks this year. Even though everything was within laws and regulations,” writes the organizer Jörgen Schulze in a text message to the newspaper.

The future looks pitch black for animal life on Earth.

At best, 10-15 percent of all animal species will have died out by the year 2100 – assuming global warming and habitat destruction are curbed.

If we continue as we do today, 30 percent of animal species risk extinction.

This is shown by two new studies, writes TT.

The studies show that thousands of animal species are in the scales. The researchers have evaluated the situation of roughly 87,000 animal species – of which 3,877 are classified as acutely threatened.

Read more here.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says in his New Year’s speech that countries in the West are “using” Ukraine as a tool to destroy Russia, writes Reuters.

The speech was broadcast on state TV and Putin talked about Russia “will never give way” to the countries in the West.

He also accused countries of lying to Russia and “provoking” the invasion of Ukraine.

The family-owned candy manufacturer Bubs is bought by the Norwegian food giant Orkla, writes Gothenburg Post.

Bubs manufactures some of the country’s most popular candies – not least the classic raspberry licorice shell.

The journey began in Huskvarna in Småland in 1992 when Ulrik Lindström started candy production together with his older brother and his parents.

The name Bubs comes from the family members Bernt, Ulrik, Birgitta and Stefan.

The movement has grown strongly over the years and had a turnover of 211 million in the last financial year.

– It has been a fantastically fun trip, but in the end we got a little fed up with all the investing. The downside is that the responsibility increases the better it goes, says Ulrik Lindström, production manager, to Göteborgs-Posten.

The price for the sale is kept secret by the parties.

Several explosions have been heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, reports AFP.

According to Reuters, witnesses say they heard ten explosions. At lunchtime, air raid alarms sounded throughout the country.

“There are explosions in Kyiv. Stay in the shelters!” wrote the city’s mayor Vitaly Klytchko on Telegram.

At least one person has been killed and several others have been injured in Kyiv, according to the mayor.

The attack caused power outages in large parts of the city.

During the afternoon, the Ukrainian military stated that 20 Russian robots were fired at the country – of which 12 were shot down.

At lunchtime, a fire started on a balcony in Farsta södra Stockholm.

The fire brigade went out. On site, it is established that the plastic chair that caught fire was extinguished by the tenants.

The cause of the fire is probably fireworks, according to the police.

The rescue service says there is information that a New Year’s rocket has hit the balcony.