An attempt to blow open an ATM in Franeker overnight severely damaged the facade of the Keatsmuseum. It is unclear whether the perpetrators managed to steal any money from the ATM, which was attached to the museum on Voorstraat in the Friesland city. The museum will remain closed in the coming days.
Over five years after the MSC Zoe lost 342 containers during stormy weather on the North Sea, the government will finally publish a list of 6,000 places on the seabed where waste may still be present.
Seven of the 11 raccoons that escaped from the AquaZoo in Leeuwarden last week are still at large. Several specialists are helping search for the animals, AquaZoo director Jeroen Loomeijer told Hart van Nederland. He expects to find the little fugitives and is not worried about their survival in the surrounding terrain.
Two tugboats are slowly but steadily towing the burning Fremantle Highway to a location 16 kilometers north of Schiermonnikoog. In this new, temporary location, the freighter is further from the shipping routes and other ships and also a bit more out of the wind. “It’s a safer place,” Edwin de Feijter of the public works department Rijkswaterstaat Noord-Nederland told Omrop Fryslan.