The ‘mysterious’ Orkney vole is likely to have originated from Belgium 5,100 years ago according to researchers, reports BBC News . The team of scientists - led by the University of Aberdeen and Cornell University in America - believe the subspecies of the European common vole was brought over by...

Train driver Dries Verhauwaert, 32, from Heule, West Flanders talks about what he earns and how he spends it What do you do for a living? I have been a train driver since October 2009. I carry out security checks and maintenance work on the trains, then of course I drive on several routes. I depart...

The federal minister for public enterprise , Jean-Pascal Labille, has called on the two bosses of Belgian railway operator SNCB, Jannie Haek and Marc Descheemaecker to waive their contractual severance pay, seeing as they both found other positions in the public sector. "I expect loyalty and ethics...

Flemish minister for mobility Hilde Crevits yesterday inaugurated a rush hour lane on the E40 between Sterrebeek and Heverlee. The rush hour-only stretch is 7km long and is expected to improve the flow of the traffic between Brussels and Louvain in the early evening. A recent study conducted by the...

There were 2,103 children aged 6 to 12 years involved in traffic accidents in Belgium in 2012, Flemish broadcaster VTM announced last night, citing figures from the Belgian Institute for Road Safety (IBSR). Of these 2,103 children, 532 were cycling, 463 were and on foot and 959 were car passengers...

Belgian biotech company MDxHealth has signed a deal with U.S. healthcare network Stratose, which will give its prostate cancer testing product access to one of the largest networks in the United States, reports Reuters’ Robert-Jan Bartunek . MDxHealth said this morning that with the signature of...

Swiss company HyperWeek has been bought by Knowledge Plaza, a Belgian company specialising in enterprise social networking, reports StartUpTicker . French online magazine Le Journal Du Net quotes the figure of €500,000 for the purchase of the Swiss start-up. HyperWeek, based in Geneva and founded...

When you’re standing on Place Saint- Géry in the city centre, with its busy bars and terraces, it’s hard to imagine that thousands of years ago it was an island surrounded by the River Senne. The area was named by the French Duke Charles of Lower Lotharingia, who, in 979 AD, built a chapel on the...

More than one-third of Belgian school canteens fail to meet food hygiene standards, L’Avenir reports today. In 2012 the Federal Agency for Food Safety (AFSCA) inspected 1,316 schools where meals are served; in total, 35% of schools had insufficient hygiene levels. "Food hygiene standards in Belgian...