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The Amersfoort Zoo will remain closed on Thursday due to the storm. The zoo has decided this because there is a chance that branches of the trees can come loose.

Elderly people who are badly injured are increasingly in danger of considering, as train traffic is getting more and more crowded. Track Manager ProRail launches today in cooperation with Safe Traffic Netherlands and elderly federations to train them safely to cross over.

The number of lonely people searching for a telephone helpline is increasing rapidly. The last two months doubled the number of lone callers (1270) over the same period last year.

An employee of Pluim Elektronica was hit on Thursday afternoon after being overtaken by his own van. The man was severely injured. He was brought to the hospital with urgency.

A murderer has reported himself to the police a few weeks after a robbery at a supermarket in Eindhoven.

UPDATE 18.45- A train from Hungary to the Netherlands has been quiet in Austria since last night. An overhead line has been crushed by emergency weather. There are about 900 train passengers. It would mainly be for Dutch passengers returning from the Hungarian music festival Sziget in Budapest.

Various municipalities have reported to providers of so-called registration addresses. These are addresses where people enroll in the municipality while they do not live there at all. 'This opens the way to unravel all kinds of surcharges, for example,' said a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday.

Calling and driving behind the steering wheel should be punished as heavy as driving with a sip. Only by using the smartphone in the car as a heavy traffic offense will motorists adjust their driving behavior and reduce the number of traffic casualties.

In Amersfoort a suspect of a theft was able to escape the police in a special way: on walkways.

KPN customers can still use the 'OV chip mobile' app to pay in public. The check-in app gets a reset. When the app is available again for them, it will be determined after the summer.

The introduction of OV Chip Mobile stagnates. Check-in and check-out with the mobile phone is often unavailable for KPN users because logging is not successful.

The fire brigade was erected on several afternoons on Saturday afternoon for a fire at auction company BVA Auctions on the Kryptonweg in Amersfoort. The fire that started around 13.40 can not be blown yet because it is hot. The fire department tries to prevent the fire from being flown to an adjacent building.

Motorists should consider again this weekend with longer travel times on the route from Amsterdam to Amersfoort. The A1 between junction Muiderberg and exit Naarden-West from Friday 21.00 to 05.00 Monday closed. Traffic will be diverted via Almere (A6 / A27).

People still know hardly what to do to get within less sugar. This is evident from an examination of the Diabetes Foundation below 1200 people, which is representative in accordance with the fund. Dutch get an average of thirty sugar every day without realizing it in through all kinds of products, said the fund also by food that many people hardly suspect sugar.

While the terraces Wednesday are already full in many places in the Netherlands with sunbathers, some lucky today still bound under the skates.

Traffic Safety Netherlands (VVN) is pleased that Minister Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure) finally serious about making the approach flaps on the smartphone while driving.

The precious violin concertmaster of the Amersfoort Youth Orchestra is missing. Musician Hans Erblich let the instrument last Friday are on the train between Amersfoort and his hometown Hilversum. Since then, lacking any trace of the violin.

In the Netherlands, Amsterdam has the most 'zombies' infected computers and devices by viruses that are deployed as part of a botnet. That virus fighter Norton quantified.

Work on the railway bridge over the A1 at Muiderberg are continuing until Monday 15:00. The planning was 5:00 pm on,, tricky demolition 'runs from this, Rijkswaterstaat reports.

The A50 between Zwolle and Hattem, Heerde closed after an accident.,, There is a unilateral accident. A van was beaten on the head, '' said a spokesman for the ANWB.

In Amersfoort Zoo was born a ring-tailed lemur for the first time. The little one is well cared for by the mother and other females of the group of prosimians.

A bus driver was mugged Saturday night around 21:30 hours by three guys with a machete in Amersfoort district Zielhorst. A dark boy of about 16 years stopped the bus at the Trompetstraat. Two companions jumped as soon as the door opened inwards, one of them the driver threatened with a knife. He pounded repeatedly on the paytable. Meanwhile, was the first man on the bus to prevent it ran. The driver gave his own wallet and the till down to robbers. 'They do not have much looted, perhaps around 100 euros,' said spokesman Hendri Beltman Connexxion.

Due to a power outage at Apeldoorn drive no trains between Amersfoort and Deventer and between Apeldoorn and Zutphen. The turnouts in Apeldoorn can not be operated, the NS reported.

The replacement pools, from which schools draw as a teacher is sick, are virtually empty. Many children in recent weeks are therefore sent home forced.

Of young people between fourteen and eighteen distributes one in eight sometimes a nude photo of herself via social media. Two thirds think that the nude-selfie will not be sent to people for whom the sexy picture or video is not meant to be.

A man of 25 in Amersfoort Friday arrested as a suspect in a stabbing. Which followed a quarrel between him and the 30-year-old victim from Hooglanderveen an overtaking maneuver in traffic. Runners had to intervene to prevent worse.

Property tax increases in Amersfoort this year by as much as 10.7 percent. This is the strongest increase of all 36 major municipalities in the Netherlands. This emerges from a comparative study of the University of Groningen.

Make Robots demented elderly people keep an eye to prevent them from wandering.