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No injuries at tennis club as roof collapses

Police and rescue workers have allayed fears that players had been injured or become trapped after a roof collapsed at a tennis hall outside Södertälje on Wednesday evening.

Published: 3 February 2010 21:08 CET

There are believed to have been eleven players in the hall when the roof caved in.

“They had guardian angels: nobody was injured and everything ended well,” said police inspector Eva Malm at 9.30pm.

She said the players had gathered in the dressing rooms adjacent to the hall to drink coffee or wait for their families.

“Everybody is out as far as I understand,” said tennis club board member Jonas Nienhüysen, speaking to news agency TT at 9.15pm.

Nienhüysen explained that there are three tennis courts in the hall, the roof of which is vaulted and made of canvas. Originally the hall was erected for indoor golf training.

He believed the collapse was most likely caused by a build-up of snow. Heavy snow fall across southern and central parts of Sweden has led to roofs collapsing at various locations over the course of Wednesday.

Emergency services arrived at the hall in Rönninge, 30 kilometres south of Stockholm, shortly after the alarm was raised at 8.43pm.

WEATHER

Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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