Rheinuferstraße will disappear in the tunnel

Cologne - So now after all. The Rheinuferstraße will disappear in the south of Cologne in a tunnel. At least where will cross the main thoroughfare, the new north-south railway.
The SPD gave way on Tuesday and spoke at the Council approved the principle of the tunnel solution, as they had vehemently demanded the CDU and FDP. The city must now determine how expensive the tunnel is and how many there are grants from federal and state governments.
For months, the comrades had fought for an above-ground crossings. However, that would have the decisive disadvantage that the traffic coming every few minutes at a traffic light to a halt if the expensive one billion euros over North-South Railway vorbeibraust.
The Greens remained stubbornly at the crossing variant and were yesterday pissed off at her unfaithful allies SPD.
Deciding where to stand, the new City Archives, has been postponed - as well as the decision on the planned Jewish museum.

Soko beyond drug dealer ring

Rhein-Sieg-Kreis - Intensive marijuana smell penetrates into the nose: Investigators in a special room to present their success. 30,000 euros deal of money there are - and bags filled with marijuana, twelve pounds. The fabric is bred, its effect 20 times greater than in the 90s.
They insisted also on the "big fish", made for hundreds of overtime: Dieter Henscheid, head of the investigative commission, and his people. In close cooperation with the Bonn public prosecutor, they could end supply and distribution paths of two independently acting drug gangs in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis detect, collect evidence - and arrested 29 suspects being.
June 2007 was dug the first volume. Including two brothers (20, 21) from Hennef. They had taken over the circle of a dealer's customers from Windeck, when moved away. Windecker at which the investigators were tuned to a tip since late 2006.
Henscheid: "The brothers supplied 80 to 100 users a day. Even under our eyes. "Was unreliable, as their supplier, they made a supply rail on to Bonn, in relation to a drug-Saharan Africans living there. Also who was later arrested along with three dealers from Ruppichteroth and Much.
In addition, the investigators initiated a procedure for 110 drug users. "Further investigation then led us to the second group of offenders," says Henscheid. Under suspicion: 15 persons from the area Hennef / Siegburg. They tend to have cannabis products, a total of more than 100 pounds, sold illegally. After Bonn, Königswinter into the Westerwald.
Volume header: Hennef (30), who received the substance from a family man (45) from Eindhoven. The 45-year-old now sits in custody. With regard to drug supply had taken up the gang also contact a polizeibekannten Windecker (50), who ran an indoor facility. But who was so incompetent that it its plants had dried up.
Now the band wanted to invest in the facility to take over the cultivation. Pitch: All were previously arrested.

Michaels-Beerbaum wins gold

Mannheim - Germany's equestrian team is still excellent. Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum won the German Championship and for the fourth consecutive singles victory ensured. With outstretched hand, the 37-year-old from Thedinghausen born in Mannheim on Sunday rode through the target from the error in five rounds gelding Shutterfly.
"He just jumped fantastic," exults Michaels-Beerbaum. With 1.54 penalty points they won in front of Jos Lansink (Belgium) and Cumano and Ludger Beerbaum (Riesenbeck) with Gold Fever. Caused a stir on the final day of the discovery of a positive doping test in the horse Maike living in Germany Irish Jessica Kurten.
For in-law Ludger Beerbaum, the hope of a third European title in the first round of the final day was over. Cursing and gesticulating wildly to the 43-year-old rode out of the Westphalian Riesenbeck with his stallion Gold Fever out of the course. A movable TV camera he did for the dropping on the penultimate oxer responsible.
"Because he's scared," raged tree. He had withdrawn before the obstacle Gold Fever ", this is the camera in front of the horse was: The shock looked" like a whip. " Beerbaum admitted after the initial excitement, however: "The conditions were indeed the same for everybody." After a flawless ride in the second round came the single European champion in 1997 and 2001, but still a medal.
Had a difficult start on Sunday Jessica Kuerten, since shortly before a positive A-sample from the doping test at the tournament in La Baule was made public. "It was a matter of which we have never heard anything," said her husband Eckardt Kuerten Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Sunday.
The case was turned over to a Swiss lawyer to appeal to appeal. The 37-year-old Irish woman Jessica Kurten, who lives in the Rhenish Hünxe and is number four in the world rankings, had won the Super League tournament in May with the great mare Maike 100,000 euro prize.

Million grave Festspielhaus

Bonn --
Experts have suspected it for some time, now it is official:
The new concert hall, which was to cost 75 million euros, to be grave danger to the millions. For there will be a lot more expensive. "We anticipate a construction value of just under 100 million," said Post spokesman Dirk Klasen the EXPRESS.
Two architectural designs are still in the race: The "Diamond" by Zaha Hadid of London and the "waves" that wants to build the architect Hermann & Valentiny from Luxembourg. Although both proposals were "purified" because they were too much 100 on the top of the million mark. But the old frame is not held.
At least the Post is at its word and wants to build in any case, as project manager said Manfred Harnischfeger again. The Postbank seems to hold in the project. Insecure Telekom, the third candidate is the sponsor.
There is no hurry. For after OB Jürgen Nimptsch a citizens interviewed for the Festival Hall for May next year, had announced that the three daxe the project anyway postponed by at least one year.
When people vote, the city hopes to head a resounding yes for the new concert hall. Because, as City Manager, Dr. Kregel, the old Beethoven Hall because of her condition was no longer competitive. So was a new development in the same place a "huge opportunity for Bonn," said Kregel.
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Cooler Peter is the "Metro-Stars-wall"

Dusseldorf - you are his sunshine. If Peter Ratchuk with his daughters, Carly (3) and Anna (played 1), then the otherwise cool DEG-thaw defender.
Time for the girls and wife Julie (29) also had the 31-year-old Friday, because the MetroStars have only ran Sunday in Ingolstadt again.
 "The little break benefited by much," said the defender. "We had a damn good training week. I think that we will deliver a good game. "
Just outside is a strong defensive performance of the key. And then again depends on a lot of Americans. For Peter, the "Metro-Stars-wall". To him it is not over quickly.
 This already shows the meaningful Plus-minus statistics. In one gets a bonus if you stand with a goal on the ice and a minus point with a clean sheet. In this evaluation Ratchuk has a "plus 18" stand.
As can be in the DEL with Milo Krefeld and Berlin's fifth match only two. "That makes me even a little proud, that are in fact very great players," said Ratchuk.
The 1.85 meter tall defender (85 kilos) will also clean up the panthers vigorously: "It's my job to prevent goals. I do as best I can. "
Peter and his team trust too much: "We want to arrive safely in the playoffs. And then, of course, is visualized for the championship. Because we have a great team that brings everything and is strong enough to win the title. "On Saturday (13 clock) is departure for Ingolstadt.