The Brussels meal delivery service Take Eat Easy has suspended deliveries while it looks for a buyer, following a disappointing capital round that ended this month. The company was set up in 2013 and came to be seen as a textbook example of a successful start-up. In partnership with city...

The Memorial Van Damme, one of the country’s most important sporting events, could find a new home in Bruges, after city politicians raised the possibility of a move from Brussels. “There are worse lifeboats than the attractive city of Bruges,” Memorial organiser Wilfried Meert said. The idea of a...

A rare corpse flower at the Botanical Garden in Meise near Brussels is in bloom for the second time this year. The flower, Amorphophallus titanium, normally only blooms every three to eight years. It previously bloomed in March this year, its first appearance in three years. The blooming period...

Public transport costs in Brussels have risen more than twice as fast as inflation over the past decade, according to a new study by far-left party PTB. The report shows that if the Stib was to have kept pace with inflation, the cost of an annual season ticket today would amount to €405 per year...

The number of complaints made to the SNCB about trains running too early has almost doubled between 2012 and 2015. Last year, the railway company received 345 complaints for trains departing earlier than the allocated time, in comparison with 189 complaints in 2012. Some 229 complaints were made in...

More than half a million people visited the Belgian coast last weekend, according to the West Flanders tourism office Westtoer. An estimated 530,000 people enjoyed a day trip on Saturday or Sunday - exceeding the forecast by 30,000 visitors. About one in five visitors were from abroad, with the...

The hamburger chain Quick, French-owned but with outlets across Belgium, is in the process of transforming into Burger King restaurants, new owners QSR Belgium said. QSR is a subsidiary of the investment fund Kharis Capital, which acquired the Quick chain from the French Groupe Bertrand for an...

Family doctors should be more informed about the liver disease hepatitis C, according to a survey led by two professors in the run-up to World Hepatitis Day this week. About 70,000 people in Belgium are infected with hepatitis C, and the disease causes about 300 deaths a year. Around half of...

Hunkered down behind the dunes north of Ostend is Fort Napoleon, a squat pentagon of dark red brick, built on the orders of the little general in 1811. Those visiting the fort as a historical relic this summer might be taken aback to see the techno pioneer CJ Bolland peeking over the outer ramparts...

About half of the cars on Belgium's roads have unsafe tyres, according to a spot check by road association Touring to mark the start of the summer getaway. The breakdown assistance company checked a sample of 1,100 vehicles in recent weeks - and more than 500 of the vehicles were judged to have...