Heartbreaking war story and Belgian champion Washing windows: 5 Unmissable Regional stories of the weekend

1. Steff (22) is the fastest window washer in the country: « I had not specially prepared myself »

In Houthulst, the Belgian championship ‘Washing’ championship was settled on Saturday. Steff van Roy (22) from Scherpenheuvel needed barely 25 seconds to cross the title. Look at here How he did that.

2. These BVs and politicians ran the Antwerp 10 Miles, and this was their time: « I have seen people resit and vomit with this heat »

The Antwerp 10 Miles was walked on Sunday under a bright sun. A lot of politicians and BVs also showed their most sportiest side, even if it was also puffing and blowing for them because of the warm weather. Check here what their end times were.

3. Christophe (54) got knife stitch out of his neck out of nowhere: « Suddenly I felt a shot and I bleed like a cow »

For Christophe van Coillie it became a dramatic weekend. After a cafe visit in the center of Ingelmunster, he was attacked out of nowhere. « Suddenly I felt a shot. I didn’t feel pain, but I saw that I was bleeding like a cow, » he says. Reading here His story.

4. Angèle received a letter to her now fallen man unopened, century later he is read for the first time

The letters from Angèle Plouvier to her husband Georges Lamour are heartbreaking. He last wrote her on April 22, 1915, the day of the first gas attack on the front in the Westhoek. He became fatal to him. Yet Angèle continued to write, for years, against better judgment. « He lost his life, she’s joy of life, » says grandson Dominique (78) more than a century later. Reading here Their story.

5. Nowhere borrow more tenants for guarantee than in this city: « Very few of these people could pay for it themselves »

Almost 5,000 Flemish people borrow interest -free from the government to pay their rental guarantee. Nowhere is the share of tenants with such a loan higher than in Oudenaarde. What is going on there? You read it here.