A selection of the winning photographs from the world famous Wildlife Photographer of The Year Competition, organised by the BBC Wildlife Magazine and the Natural History Museum in London, may be seen in the Museon, Den Haag. See the best…
Everest & Beyond: Meet Everest climber Stephen Venables Stephen Venables was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen. The stories of his travels have enthralled audiences all over the world and The British School in The Netherlands is…
A mouse that was taped to a firework rocket during Dutch New Year festivities and later died of its burn injuries is to be exhibited in a museum. Two 20-year-old men from the Frisian village of Drachten were arrested for…
A 45-year old Asian elephant in Amsterdam’s Artis Zoo has become the first in Europe to be fitted with a contact lens. Win Thida, the oldest elephant in the zoo’s herd and a popular attraction, badly scratched her eye during…
Mild weather encourages thousands to take part in New Year swims The mild weather encouraged record numbers of people to take part in New Year swims this year, news agency ANP reports. In Scheveningen, the 10,000 tickets were sold out…
Sunday 25 December 2011 Johannes Heesters, the Dutch singer and actor who made his name performing in Germany during World War II, has died in hospital at the age of 108. Heesters made a come-back in the Netherlands in 2008.…
Tuesday 27 December 2011 Two brothers aged 43 and 53 and their 51-year-old sister were stuck in a lift in an office complex in Tilburg for 17 hours over the holiday break. They were released as people arrived for work…
Tuesday 27 December 2011 December is shaping up to be the third wettest since records began in 2006, while Christmas Day was the second warmest on record at 12 Celsius, according to weather bureaus on Tuesday. So far this month…
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