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By 65 DN
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
A round-up in English, in bulletin form, of the news in Finnish tabloids Iltasanomat and Iltalehti.
Singer Matti Inkinen of the pop group SIG Pop was found drowned in Raisio bay in Southwest Finland on Monday, having been reported missing for three weeks. Fans and concerned readers took part in the search for the composer of hits ‘Vuosisadan Rakkaustarina’ (Love Story of The Century) and ‘Tiina menee naimisiin' (Tiina's getting married).
On their website, the remaining SIG band members said they were ‘placing Seiska and Iltalehti under boycott’ for what they called ‘deeply offensive copy.”
A 12-year-old boy was hit and killed by a train yesterday when cycling across a railway crossing at Mäntti-Vilppula, a small town between Jyväskylä and Tampere. The train was reported to have been moving at around 35 to 40 kilometres an hour, and there were no barriers at the junction.
Manttä-Vilppula’s police said they were investigating the reasons behind the death.
61 percent of winnings by Finnish lottery winners are put straight into savings accounts or go to pay off debts, revealed IltaSanomat today, reporting on an investigation by the Finnish Reader’s Digest (Valitut Palat).
Model agency owner and reality TV-presenter Janice Dickenson visited Finland in December of last year to act as a judge on Finland’s “Suomen Huippumalli haussa,” or “Looking for Finland’s Top Model” series. The episode was just aired, to a ‘worldwide stir’ about Dickenson’s drunken behavior.
Forecasters have promised “Superhot” weather for the weekend with temperatures peaking at around 25 degrees Celsius as Finland's schools close, although apparently “by the beach the sea wind will cool bathers a little.”
National lukio – senior high school – test scores were published today. Helsinki’s “Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu’ came top with a 22,79 point average. The first Oulu school on the list, in 16th place, was ‘Oulun Normaalikoulu’ with a 20,40 average. Oulun Lyseon lukio was close behind at 18th place with an average of 20,32.
After a short hiatus, electricity prices are on the up due to the rising cost of oil and fuel emission rights, according to energy consortium Fortum – and the change may be long-lasting.
Trust indicators from national statistics agency Statistics Finland suggest that the ‘bad air’ over Finland’s economy may be beginning to clear, as consumer expectations are ‘clearly positive.’
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