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Northern Tale Runner Up in National Newspaper’s Very Short Travel Story Competition

Posted on November 15th, 2011 by News Editor

A travel report involving Oulu was just pipped at the post in a competition to write a particularly concise experience of a short break.

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11/ 11/ 11 at 11am in II

Posted on November 15th, 2011 by News Editor

The date being a series of ones led to swift rise in weddings in Oulu last week.

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Tragedy in Tyrnava

Posted on November 15th, 2011 by News Editor

Man suspected of killing his two young children by deliberately setting fire to his house in town near Oulu is arrested.

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Another City Siwa Robbed

Posted on November 9th, 2011 by News Editor

The Myllytulli branch of the mini-supermarket Siwa was robbed at 7.30 on Monday morning, the second Siwa robbery in Oulu in less than month.

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Miss World Title Eludes Oulu Beauty

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by News Editor

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Miss Finland, an Oulu shop assistant, came nowhere near taking the Miss World crown in the international competition last night.

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Rain Doesn’t Dampen the Flames

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by News Editor

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Hundreds of Oulu people made their way to the city cemetery on Saturday evening.

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New Zeppelin Centre Burgled

Posted on November 8th, 2011 by News Editor

The newly expanded Zeppelin Centre in Kempele was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning.

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City Cyclists See the Light

Posted on November 3rd, 2011 by News Editor

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Local police are very impressed by cyclists’ early morning efforts to illuminate themselves.

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Private Health Centre Lays-off Staff

Posted on November 2nd, 2011 by News Editor

Terveystalo and ODL Terveys are sacking 34 staff in Oulu and another 12 in Kajaani and Rovaniemi.

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Rovaniemi Office Wins ‘Wood Structure of the Year’

Posted on November 2nd, 2011 by News Editor

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The Pilke House, a new office block in Rovaniemi, was the ‘Wood Structure of the Year’ award for 2011.

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