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Eurovision winner backs Norway’s Carl Espen

Last year's Eurovision winner, Emmelie De Forest, has declared her support for Norway's entry Carl Espen in this year's contest.

Published: 6 May 2014 23:17 CEST
Eurovision winner backs Norway's Carl Espen
Carl Espen at the Copenhagen Tivoli on Tuesday. Photo: Erlend Aas / NTB scanpix
Last year's Eurovision winner, Emmelie De Forest, has declared her support for Norway's entry Carl Espen in this year's contest. 
 
"Carl Espen is my great favorite," De Forest told NRK as she arrived for the opening party on Monday night. "I liked the song once I heard it and have followed him through the Norwegian finals."
 
Carl Espen, a former nightclub bouncer from Bergen, is breaking with Eurovision tradition by bringing Silent Storm, a piano driven ballad, to the contest in Copenhagen, rather than the more usual Europop. 
 
The song, by the singer-songwriter Josefin Winther, is described on Espen's website as an "intense, fragile and powerful ballad". Espen will perform it for the first time in Copenhagen at the second semi-final on Thursday. 
 
De Forest won last year with "Only Teardrops". 

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TRANSPORT

Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.

Published: 26 February 2024 07:51 CET
Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.

The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.

“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.

“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.

Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.

“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.

The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.

READ ALSO: Copenhagen city government greenlights extension to Metro line

The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).

The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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