Fremantle Highway disaster: A year later, questions remain
One year ago, the country watched in horror as the cargo ship Fremantle Highway was engulfed in flames. The vessel, ...
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Scrap metal from MSC Zoe found on sandbank two years after crisis
The MSC Zoe lost hundreds of shipping containers in rough sea in January 2019 Translated by Thomas Ansell In January ...
Thousands of volunteers comb North Sea beaches at Beach Cleanup Tour: “282 pieces of rubbish within one hundred metres”
The Beach Cleanup Tour’s eighth edition saw volunteers go along the Dutch North Sea coast cleaning up litter Translated by ...
Coronavirus figures still high in Friesland: same number of new weekly cases as hospital admissions grow
There are now seven people in a Frisian hospital suffering from Coronavirus complications Translated by Thomas Ansell As reported by ...
IWCN launches new Welcome Guide for 2021
130 pages of information about living, working, and relaxing in the Northern Netherlands By Thomas Ansell The International Welcome Center ...
Ameland begins campaign to change behaviour of ‘a new type of tourists’ that have recently come to the island
More and more people are causing noise disturbances, leaving litter, and not being respectful to islanders Translated by Thomas Ansell ...
Nightclubs re-open across the North (apart from on Ameland)
Most nightclubs were able to re-open last weekend, with people required to show a negative test to gain entry Translated ...
Wadden Islands become super-prime: house prices spike as record number of holiday homes sold
We’re all going on a summer holiday (where it shall rain) Translated by Thomas Ansell Before the advent of international ...
The Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden officially shuts its specialist Coronavirus ward, as cases drop week on week in Friesland
Any new COVID-19 patients will be treated in isolation rooms Translated by Thomas Ansell The MCL Hospital in Leeuwarden has ...
Dutch court slaps down Shell for lackluster greening plans, with Wadden Island Association calling the decision ‘historic’
The Netherlands' most polluting company will have to have a rethink Translated by Thomas Ansell The giant multinational oil and ...
