Eighty percent of Finnish men who come forward to donate sperm have their deposit rejected, according to a leading fertility clinic.
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Thieves Break Into Tornio Factory to Steal Copper
Many expats in Oulu may be used to passing through Tornio on the way to Ikea. But the small border-town and has fallen victim to a particularly audacious form of theft.
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A supermarket robbery on Friday involved every TV cliché and, unsurprisingly, it failed.
Read the rest of this entry »Bringing Down Finnish Food Prices
The relatively high food prices in Finnish supermarkets are often one of the first things that expats notice upon moving to the country. Sometimes they are dismissed with remarks like, ‘This is Finland. Food is expensive’ but now even a government minister is now insisting that it shouldn’t have to be this way.
Read the rest of this entry »Cemetery Mugger Turns Himself In
Oulu police have arrested a 28 year-old man for Saturday’s mugging of an elderly woman in the city’s cemetery.
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A 70 year-old woman was the victim of a violent mugging in the city’s main cemetery on Saturday afternoon.
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The Oulu office of the national broadcaster YLE will be open to the public on Tuesday morning.
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Oulu police will be auctioning off lost property, including bicycles, on Thursday 3rd May.
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Plants pots blown over in gardens and an unseasonal chill seem to be the main results of gale-force winds in Oulu on Vappu Eve and Vappu Day.
Read the rest of this entry »This Year’s Vappu Eve ‘Quite Lively’
Vappu Eve 2012, where Oulu’s revellers traditionally welcome in the start of May, has been euphemistically described as ‘quite lively’ but Oulu police.
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