RTV Utrecht In association with RTV Utrecht NOS News•today, 19:08 After a week on strike, garbage collectors in Utrecht went back to work today. The city is full of waste and the municipality expects it will take at least a week before the city is clean again. Garbage man Stijn Kerkhoven doesn’t mind that extra … Read more
Seven activists were arrested on Friday evening during the occupation of a restaurant in central Utrecht. The group campaigned in a business on the Lijnmarkt because foie gras is on the menu. Foie gras is the fatty liver of ducks or geese. The animals are fattened in a short time using a funnel or tube. … Read more
KoenLaurey In collaboration with RTV Utrecht ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 12:38•Edited today, 1:27 pm This morning a woman fell into a deep well in a cemetery in Utrecht. It happened around 11:15. The woman fell to an estimated depth of five meters and was injured. It is not known how she is now. The safety region’s height rescue … Read more
ANP extension ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 1:48 pm From next year, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht will remove BKR reports from residents who get out of debt faster. Now people who have completed a debt process are registered with the Credit Registration Office for another five years. In the four big cities this will soon be six … Read more
“Our pay is really very low for security guards, while we do a lot. That’s why we are here, we want more pay,” an employee told RTV Utrecht this morning. “Wage increases are always promised, but never given. There are people working here who have been frozen for 20 years on minimum wage,” another security … Read more
Coarse particles and insects – which can be infected with bird flu or other pathogens – can enter the vents of poultry farms with the air. This has emerged from research by Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR), part of Wageningen University & Research, and Utrecht University on the transport of possible carriers of the bird flu … Read more