Tag: Netherlands
Injured after gas explosions in Bilthoven, facade of flat collapsed
BILTHOVEN – A facade collapsed after two explosions during a gas leak under an apartment building in Bilthoven. According to the Utrecht Security Region, four people were injured. Two injured…
Explosion after gas leak in Bilthoven, flat completely evacuated
According to a press photographer on site, the explosion was inside and part of the facade is heavily damaged. Emergency services and bystanders, mainly residents, are very shocked by the…
Academics call for an end to animal testing in open letter
UTRECHT – The Netherlands must play a pioneering role in ending animal testing in biomedical science. More than twenty academics, including three scientists from Utrecht University, write this in an…
Students practice counting bees for the National Bee Count
On Thursday and Friday, students in grades six to eight and all classes in secondary schools can spot bees during the school count. Special counting forms have been made for…
From now on a human shield to the abortion clinic: ‘Protection needed against protesters’
The buddy can serve as a kind of shield for the one who goes to the clinic. Gerding: “Nobody wants to have an abortion, it is very important that it…
OM: more research needed into possible role of Bunschoter in the death of two locals
More research is needed to determine whether a 30-year-old man from Bunschoten played a role in the deaths of two young locals. The public prosecutor reported this today in an…
Consultancy: communication from the municipality of Utrecht about renovation applications must be better
The Board wants to use the Environment Act, which is yet to be introduced, a law that is intended to prevent bureaucracy by making the system of legislation much simpler,…
Father from Mijdrecht denies that he severely abused his son and broke the baby’s ribs
The suspect wanted to be in court today, but apparently something had gone wrong with the transport. He therefore had to follow the hearing via a video link. “I hope…
All signals on red for green gas in Bunschoten, biogas plant gets one more week
But that acquisition is not planned until mid-August, in the form of a share transaction. A solution would then have to lie in the biogas plant, which in its current…
Growing unrest among poultry farmers due to bird flu: ‘It feels like a lottery’
“I get a lot of calls from concerned poultry farmers,” says Oplaat of the Dutch Union of Poultry Farmers. “They are already doing a lot against bird flu, but it…