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Linesman who died after being attacked at amateur game may have had medical condition

Details: Category: News; Created on Friday, 24 May 2013 09:03; Written by Amsterdam Herald

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A forensic report has cast doubt over the cause of death of a football linesman who was beaten and kicked at an amateur game.

Richard Nieuwenhuizen was attacked at the end of an amateur match in Almere. Richard Nieuwenhuizen, 41, died in hospital a day after he was set upon by a group of teenagers in Almere, Flevoland. Six youths and a 50-year-old man are due to appear at a court hearing next week accused of being involved in his death.

But a report commissioned by one of the suspects’ defence lawyers has found that Mr Nieuwenhuizen’s death may have been due to a pre-existing condition.

Johan Cruyff's childhood home in Amsterdam goes up for sale

Details: Category: News; Created on Thursday, 23 May 2013 09:54; Written by Gordon Darroch

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The house where footballing legend Johan Cruyff lived as a child is being put up for sale, prompting calls for it to be turned into a museum.

Johan Cruyff grew up just a few streets away from Ajax's De Meer stadium. The property at Akkerstraat 32, on the corner with Tuinbouwstraat, doubled as his father’s vegetable shop when the young Johan lived there in the 1950s.

The house is a few streets away from Ajax’s former De Meer stadium, where Cruyff would go on to make his name with the great European Cup-winning side of the early 1970s.

Dutch processed meat to contain 10 per cent less salt after new standards agreed

Details: Category: News; Created on Wednesday, 22 May 2013 11:51; Written by Amsterdam Herald

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Dutch meat will contain around 10 per cent less salt in two years’ time after producers agreed a new set of standards with supermarkets.

The meat industry has given itself two years to agree and implement minimum salt levels. The Dutch Meat Manufacturers’ Association (VNV) said a deal had been reached following talks with retailers, although it still needs to be approved by members.

Health minister Edith Schippers had threatened to impose legal standards if the industry failed to reduce the salt and fat content of its products voluntarily.

Deal struck in Maastricht that could let tourists back into cannabis cafes

Details: Category: News-wietpas; Created on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:28; Written by Gordon Darroch

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Maastricht’s mayor Onno Hoes has reached a compromise with the city council that could see foreigners allowed back into coffeeshops.

Maastricht's coffeeshops could soon be open to non-residents again once they have moved out of the city centre. The deal is aimed at ending a long-running dispute in the city over the regulation of the cannabis cafes which has led to a series of police raids over the last two weeks.

Two weeks ago coffeeshop owners said they would no longer turn away Belgian and German visitors in an explicit challenge to Hoes’s policy of only allowing Dutch residents in.

Fears grow for missing ex-volleyball star Ingrid Visser in Spain

Details: Category: News; Created on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 09:42; Written by Amsterdam Herald

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The family of Dutch volleyball star Ingrid Visser are growing increasingly concerned after she and her partner went missing while on holiday in Spain.

Ingrid Visser, left, and Lodewijk Severein have been missing in Murcia for a week. The 35-year-old checked into a hotel with Lodewijk Severein, the former Dutch volleyball team manager, in Murcia in the south-eastern corner of the country on Monday afternoon.