Grey Sunday, High Electricity Prices and Parken Derby

Today will be a grey Sunday with temperatures of 7-8 degrees and not very much wind. At the same time, the electricity price in Eastern Denmark is the highest in almost 4 years, and Parken will host the derby between FCK and Brøndby IF. A political agreement on housing options has also been reached, and Hovedbiblioteket in Copenhagen has opened a book club about Taylor Swift.

Grey Sunday with 7-8 degrees

Sunday will be a fairly pleasant autumn day, even though there will be plenty of clouds. This is mainly because there will not be very much wind, and the wind will only pick up slightly compared with the past few days.

The sun will peek out, but for most people Sunday will be a grey affair. Bornholmers in particular have a chance of a little sunshine. The temperature will rise to 7-8 degrees when it is at its warmest. TV 2 Kosmopol

Highest electricity price in nearly 4 years

The weather phenomenon known as polar darkness, when it is dark and windless at the same time across large parts of Europe, set in this week and has left its mark on electricity prices. The pure electricity price was 2 kroner per kilowatttime in East Denmark, according to the energy company Norlys in a press release.

The last time the electricity price reached a higher weekly average was in week 51 of 2022, when the electricity price for both parts of Denmark was 2,9 kroner per kilowatttime. TV 2 Kosmopol

Agreement to make housing support offers easier to compare

The government, Venstre, The Conservatives and the Red-Green Alliance have reached agreement on a new tariff model for housing support. The Ministry of Social Affairs, the part of the state responsible for social affairs, announced this in a press release on Saturday.

The purpose of introducing national frameworks for the area is to make it easier for citizens to compare different offers and see what to expect. The municipalities – the local authorities – jointly set regional tariff proposals within the regions in dialogue with private and non-profit housing support providers, and a new control unit is to ensure correct calculation of tariffs and fair competition between public and private offers. TV 2 Kosmopol

23 foreign prison officers to Vestre Fængsel

To ease staffing shortages in the hard-pressed Danish prisons, 23 prison officers will lend a hand in 3 Danish prisons over the next six months. TV 2 reports, and one of the 3 prisons is Vestre Fængsel, which is located in København.

Pressure on Danish prisons is historically high: There are 4300 places, but 4650 inmates are behind the high walls, corresponding to an occupancy rate of 105.4 percent – that is, 5.4 percent more prisoners than there is room for. TV 2 Kosmopol

Derby in Parken: both teams have slept at a hotel

Brøndby IF is preparing in a different way for today's match against FCK than when the team normally plays away on Sjælland. After Saturday afternoon's training session, Brøndby went to a hotel and spent time together before Sunday's derby, and the coach tells TV 2 Sport that the team is preparing as if it were a match in Jylland, with an overnight stay, a morning routine, brunch and a bus to Parken.

It is not customary for FCK to stay overnight at a hotel when playing at home. But they have done so before today's derby just outside Parken because of the very early kick-off time, and the head coach says it is to ensure optimal preparation. TV 2 Kosmopol

New Taylor Swift book club at Hovedbiblioteket

This week, Hovedbiblioteket in Copenhagen opened a book club centred on pop icon Taylor Swift. Behind the music of the pop icon lie numerous references to literary works behind the great emotions – including works such as Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The number of book clubs at Copenhagen's Hovedbibliotek has grown from 4 to more than 50. According to the Taylor Swift fan and lecturer behind the new book club, it should bring fans together around some of the more substantial works that Taylor Swift has drawn inspiration from when writing her songs. DR Nyheder København DR Nyheder København

Briefly

• The triathlete from Virum won the Ironman Florida race on Saturday in a time of 7 hours, 19 minutes and 17 seconds, setting a world record for the Ironman distance and achieving it for the 3rd time in his career, aged 29. TV 2 Kosmopol
• 2 ponies were welcomed home to Carlsberg in Valby Bakke after 2 years in North Zealand, and the public was invited to the celebration at the Carlsberg stables on Saturday. TV 2 Kosmopol
• The Instagram profile Copenhagen Explore, with nearly 500,000 followers, shares AI-generated images of places in Copenhagen that, according to DR, do not reflect reality – including an image described as Blågårds Plads and a fictional flea market on Ravnsborggade. DR Nyheder København
• The organisation Stop Dirty Data Centres demonstrated in front of one of Microsoft’s data centres in Lille Skensved near Køge on Saturday as part of a joint protest in several European countries. TV 2 Kosmopol
• After J-dag, Region Hovedstadens mobile emergency room on Rådhuspladsen in Copenhagen had a busy night with slightly more people seeking assistance than last year, when there were 14 people. DR Nyheder København