Monorail closed until Easter

Wuppertal --
The Wuppertal monorail will be closed. For security reasons, such as the Wuppertal Stadtwerke (WSW) communicated. It was not until after the Easter holidays 2010 Wuppertal landmark will once again be available.
Background are massive security concerns after the examination of parts of the Skytrain scaffolding. According to the WSW, the scaffold has been largely rehabilitated. However, there are several historic railway stations in the Monorail up for renewal.
"A new report has shown that the Wuppertal by Stadtwerke (WSW) measures taken were insufficient, the increasingly poor condition of some gentleman skeleton parts to be" dividing the traffic operation on Monday. Therefore, the Board had decided at short notice to take the Monorail out of commission.
During construction, will set up a bus feeder service.
The monorail was regarded for decades as one of the safest means of transport in the world. Legendary was the overthrow of the circus elephants Tuffi "in Wuppertal in 1950.
The worst accident to date occurred fifty years later. In April 1999 a car plunged forty feet deep in the river bed. Five people were killed, 37 passengers were injured. An approximately 100-pound steel claw, which had been forgotten during renovation work in the rail, had derailed the train.

Nowitzki is insured for 12 million!

Cologne / Würzburg - In a remote little hall near Wuerzburg flays himself Dirk Nowitzki (29) a day for his great goal: the Olympics in Beijing. His mentor, Holger Geschwindner: "The others have not pause. But we are already working. Nothing comes from nothing! "
From 14 Germany then occurs in July in Athens for Olympic qualification in the tournament. Nowitzki's last chance to fulfill his lifelong dream: "The Olympics are the greatest thing for any athlete." And if it works, is the most valuable Dirkules German Olympian of all time. EXPRESS learned: The superstar is legendary for 12 million euros insured.
Nowitzki was injured, gets his NBA club Dallas Mavericks a failure-compensation. Testing times annual salary (paid club boss Mark Cuban) is downscaled to the games in which he is missing through injury.
As the NBA season has 82 games, Cuban would get 142,000 euros per breakdown of compensation. In the worst case, the entire annual salary of 12 million euros.
The Basketball Association is paying for just under € 200,000 insurance premium. DBB sports director Wolfgang Brenscheidt: "The agreement between us is a standard story. Whereby the net salary of Dirk's season in the years always slightly increased. "
The renowned sports insurer Dieter Prestin (ex-professional footballer of the 1st FC Cologne) developed from the deal as a broker: "Dirk is one of my most prominent clients."

Prey hidden in the bushes

Cologne - Marie figures stolen from graves and willfully sawed. Grave robber frightened at nothing. Currently, dozens of statues fill the Asservatenkammern the Cologne police stations.
Seizures in recent weeks, discovered behind bushes at cemeteries. Stolen sawed, ready for shipment: Metal thieves strike heaped on Cologne's cemeteries. "We were in the top fifteen ads per week," says Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Klee (44) from Chorweiler.
Then there are the cases where the police found could be found in cemeteries Metallfiguren not injured. These figures then end up in Asservatenkammern.
More characters, more Klau, more victims who complain to the police. Christoph Klee: "Less physical damage makes people more likely to feel that deceased relatives have been shamefully robbed."
As the perpetrators act boldly in Chorweiler, describes the cemetery gardener Stefan Bender (24): "They came with backpacks, have looked. Later, they then revert to the figures collected and brought to the edge of the cemetery, taken away. "
The police continue to ask for advice, looking for victims: 0221 / 229 0

Harry Potter bad guy is cannabis cultivation

London - Thick, stupid, evil - in the Harry Potter films, plays actor Jamie Waylett (19) The Swindler Vincent Crabbe. Together with Draco Malfoy, he makes the heroic junior sorcerer Harry's life hell.
But now there's trouble for the powerful 19-year-old Jamie. In court, the young actor gave to the cultivation of cannabis. Together with a buddy (20), he built on the dope-drug in the apartment of his mother.
Officials had found in April, the plants, cannabis packet and a knife. The judge postponed the court hearing that gave the two young men with words of warning on the way: "The possession of cannabis and knives is a serious matter."
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Frenzied representatives begging for his rag

Cologne - Holiday in Cologne Jus tizpalast? Of these, one can not talk. A day in the office and district court.
Monday, 8.45 clock, revolving door. Sergeant Nicole scans all who want the security area.
Judge Astrid Justenhoven (59) sits on Room 17, waiting for traffic offenders. It calls on the matter 804 Owi 95/09. Peter D. (27), a guy in a suit, enters. With 166 cases instead of 100 km / h it was traveling on the ring road. "For my light, I had to visit a client company. I drive 60,000 kilometers a year. "Justenhoven frowns:" They have registrations, were already in March 2008 with 34 km / h on the road too much, and now with 60 km / h after withdrawal of tolerance. It had 26 km / h served for a ban. "
As the blond will sheepishly: "I'm on probation who rely on the car." Justenhoven can show the employment contract. Her verdict: "The accused is charged $ 1,000 fine, in return, we see from a driving ban."
10 clock: In Room 32 began the trial of Sammy from Bergheim. He allegedly threatened with a pistol, a friend. But the witness is not coming. Postponed.
It is exciting to Hall 210th As a cook sitting (40), said to have struck a prostitute in intent to kill with a hammer on the head. The prosecutor calls for 8 years jail for attempted murder.
In the corridors Bereitsschaftspolizei in guns. A few dangerous Russians, the process is done for weeks. For tax evasion. At 12.45 clock still a trial for manslaughter. In Baumfällarbeiten was ruler of a man killed by the crown of a pine tree. The foreman (54) is accused. But his show is not to blame. Acquittal. There's also the.