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Rats spark garbage feudTwo Norwegian rats that allegedly hitched a ride across the border on a garbage truck to Kiruna have sparked expense claims and disposal problems on both sides of the Norway-Sweden border.All export of combustible trash from northern Norway to an incineration plant in Kiruna, Sweden has ceased and Norwegian trash is banned until the rat problem is solved.None of the Norwegian trash exporters is willing to take the blame for having transported the vermin."I think the rats had a Tromsø accent," said the director of Hålogaland Ressursselskap in Narvik. The response was predictable."The rats surely have a...

Latest Poll: Labour remains in the leadThe Labour Party is still Norway's largest political party, despite a 1.5 point drop in voters' support in TNS Gallup's poll for January, made for VG and TV2.The poll shows a gain for the Prime Minister's Christian People's Party by 1.5 point to 7 per cent. Coalition partner, the Conservative Party, is up 1 point to 19 per cent, and the right wing Progress Party is also one up to 20 per cent.TNS Gallup's results for January:Labour Party 30.5 (-1.5)Progress Party 20.0 (+1.0)Conservatives 19,0 (+1.0)Socialist Left 14.5 (-1.0)Christian People 7.0 (+1.5)Agrarians 5.0 ( --...