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Unearthing the spud scandal
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Potato price-fixing costs consumers millions
Several potato processing plants in Germany are being investigated on the suspicion of illegally fixing prices for more than a decade, costing consumers and farmers more than €100million.
Germany’s national competition regulator confirmed on Friday that it was investigating illegal price fixing at nine production and distribution plants.
A further five have been issued with written notices and the home of one suspect has been searched.
Home burgled every 4 minutes
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Burglaries, in particular daytime break-ins, rose sharply last year, with robberies becoming more violent, according to new figures seen by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
In the last year, there were 144,117 reported burglaries across the country, representing an increase of nine per cent on the year before. That amounts to a break-in every four minutes.
Daytime burglaries went up by 9.5 per cent and muggings of occupants are becoming more violent, with reports of victims being tied up, gagged and beaten, leaving many suffering from panic attacks and sleeplessness for months after the attack.
Nazi-themed Wagner opera pulled after walkouts
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A Nazi-themed production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser opera has been cancelled in Düsseldorf after realistic death scenes distressed audience members, the opera house said on Thursday.
The Rheinoper said it was aware that the concept and its implementation would be “controversial”.
But the opera house’s take on Wagner’s Tannhäuser proved to be so traumatic for some audience members that they had to be taken to hospital. Others slammed doors and booed as they stormed out of the theatre mid-performance.
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