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Construction on the “Ideon Gateway” continues in Northern Lund’s research area, also known as Ideon. The gateway will serve as a tall entrance to ‘Ideon Science Park’, which serves as an area close to campus reserved primarily for biomedical research. The final product of the project will tower 17 meters over the Lund Cathedral and will host offices for the numerous companies already on location at Ideon. The construction is estimated to have reached its halfway point. The building will be opened to workers as soon as next fall around October 2012.
Nighttime trains will be canceled for the next two weekends from now between Lund and Malmö. The traffic department is working on changing the switches on the rails and will thereby need to close off the transportation. Skånetrafiken recommends that travelers and commuters check out Reseplaneraren to find another route or a route via buses.
The Copenhagen Airport Kastrup plans on expanding as more and more traffic runs through the terminals. Kastrup’s competitorsSwedish Arlanda and Norwegian Gardermoen are already a step ahead, attracting an increase of 13,7 and 11,3 percent respectively in passenger counts.
A four-year-old boy was found dead in Ljungby, a town in the region of Småland just north of Scania. The authorities doubt that he froze to death and believe that the boy was murdered. The boy was found not far from the park he was playing in some time after he and his siblings were bickering. Some suspect that the boy’s friends are behind his death.
