The empty tablecloths are popping up and Easter eggs that fall out of planes: these 5 regional stories colored the weekend (inland)
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One of the largest cities in Flanders has to deal with an empty table and seam. Children from a local football team were able to pick Easter eggs while they were dropped by the local flying club. And in Ostend a silent wake was held for the murdered Anja (53). These five regional stories colored last weekend.
1. Hospitality in this city is plagued by empty-tableenoma: « I send everyone who does not show an invoice »
Reserved and not showing up? Then you will receive an invoice of 50 euros per person in your mailbox from Restaurant Faim Fatale. It is one of the ways in which the Ghent hospitality industry deals with a persistent pest of ‘no shows’. Our reporter talked to some local managers.
Bert de Paepe from Restaurant Faim Fatale. – © FVV
2. Easter eggs fall from the sky for small football players: « Fly upside down to drop eggs »
At football club KSK Kieldrecht, the Easter Bunny received help from the members of the Pegasus flying club on Saturday. From the model aircraft, twenty kilos of Easter eggs were lowered on the grounds of the local flight and football club and the youngest players were eager to collect the goodies. Our reporter was there and could make nice images.
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3. A high flyer with lowriders: Allan (35) has an impressive collection of “works on wheels”
What if your teenage dream becomes a reality? For Allan Leenen (35) it started with a skateboard, but his heart was with something bigger: Lowriders, those American showers that cruised low over the ground. His first savings went to a Cadillac Fleetwood from 1973, today he has an exceptional collection. We could view it with him.
© Jeroen Hanselaer
4. « That man had a lot of convictions to his name, but could still go his own way »: Neighborhood keeps Wake for murdered Anja (53)
On Saturday evening dozens of local residents of the new city, a neighborhood in Ostend, were a wake near the building where Anja Lievens died when she crossed the path of William C.. Flowers were laid and candles were lit at her apartment in the Guldensporenlaan. « This is a big shock for the entire neighborhood », Local residents told our man on the spot.
© Jeffrey Roos
5. Card. Increasingly scarce, and so the price is rising: in these ten municipalities there is a square meter of building land very expensive
The number of sales is falling, but prices are swinging. Building land is an increasingly scarce good, for which some people get deep in the pouch. In these ten Flemish municipalities you pay the most for a LAP building land.