Airline Oy Wingo xprs Ab will continue its flights between Oulu, Tampere and Turku with a slightly changed timetable. The new timetable will take effect on March 31st and continue until October 26th. The airline has decided to adjust the flight times to make it easier for passengers to remember the morning and evening flight times.  

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Edward Dutton interviews English hairdresser Kevin Carter, who found work in Oulu fairly fast.

Kevin Carter’s reasons for coming to Oulu are difficult to argue with. Working in a fashionable hairdressers in London and Brighton (where he’d even cut the hair of the odd pop star), Kevin had been cutting a Finnish women’s hair for a while when he asked her out. After dating for a few years, ‘she found herself pregnant and wanted to have her child back home because she thought it was a safer place!’

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Edward Dutton interviews farmer Eero Pisilä and is impressed by what he has to sell. 

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‘Really, I’m just open to ideas!’ laughs Eero Pisilä. ‘Whatever people want to make this place into . . . it’s all ready.’
 The potato farmer and general potato entrepreneur is talking about the eight hectares (sixteen acres) – including a former school that has been converted into a conference centre-cum-guest house – that somehow came into his possession when he purchased a factory near Pudasjarvi, around an hour’s drive from Oulu.
 ‘Me and my wife try not to come here very often so that we don’t start to love the place too much!’ he smiles. Eero is certain that he wants to sell the place and there is certainly a great deal to sell.

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