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Brussels-City to plant 2,000 trees over next five years

Brussels-City mayor Philippe Close and environment city councillor Zoubida Jellab (Ecolo) have presented their Tree Plan 2020-30, which includes planting 2,000 trees across the municipality over the next five years. Jellab got busy yesterday planting the first tree herself, in Place Rouppe in the...

SNCB and Infrabel fined for 2010 Buizingen rail disaster

Belgian rail firm SNCB and track operator Infrabel have each been fined €550,000 for their role in the 2010 Buizingen rail disaster - Belgium's worst in 50 years. Nineteen people died and 162 were injured - 11 seriously - when two busy commuter trains collided head-on in the morning rush hour on...

10-year-old boy killed by van in Ixelles

A 10-year-old boy has died after being hit by a van in Ixelles. The incident happened on Avenue du Congo, near the junction with Boulevard Général Jacques, on Tuesday afternoon. The victim was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died as a result of his injuries, a spokesman for the...

Get your blood pumping on countryside walks this winter

I’m the first to admit that I’m a little boring when it comes to fitness. Outside of yoga, my best effort is long walks in the countryside.

While I can’t say that I’m breathing that hard (unless I’ve taken on a hill), I am getting some fresh air and lovely views. As a city dweller, I find it incredibly important to occasionally escape a daily life made up of a constant buzz of traffic and more cement than trees.

Number of house fires in Flanders up 44% in two years

The number of house fires in Flanders has risen significantly over the last few years, according to the federal Civil Security agency. A safety adviser with a Flemish Brabant fire zone points to more and more digital devices and electric mobility as the biggest reason. According to the Civil...

More and more kids being scanned in and out of school with barcodes

Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in the centre of Brussels is the latest in an ever-growing number of primary schools to use scanners to check children in and out. The pupils receive a barcode sticker to place on their schoolbag that is scanned when they enter and leave the premises. The goal is to make...

Brussels police seize car of dangerous driver for the first time

Brussels police have for the first time confiscated the car of a driver because he’d endangered other road users. Under Belgian legislation, police can administratively seize a vehicle when a driver has endangered the life of another person or endangered their physical integrity with his or her...

Labour unionists protest working conditions at Zara

Labour unionists assembled at rue Neuve in the centre of Brussels on Tuesday morning to protest working conditions at Zara and other stores owned by the Inditex parent company. The Spanish company Inditex employs 2,000 people in Belgium who work in the stores of its fast-fashion daughter companies...

Designer Charles Kaisin creates once-in-a-lifetime dinners that tap into Belgium's surrealist streak

When luxury brands, collectors or heads of state want to throw a dinner party their guests won’t forget, they turn to Charleroi-born designer Charles Kaisin . Whether it’s conjuring up the cosmos for a Cartier jewellery launch – waiters wore silver-foil suits and gravity itself was suspended – or...

Accomplice of child killer Dutroux released from prison

Michel Lelièvre, an accomplice of Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux, has been released from prison. Lelièvre will serve the final two years of his 25-year sentence outside of the prison. Lelièvre was sentenced in 2004 for his part in the kidnapping of four girls between 1995 and 1996. Dutroux...

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