Dam Daily w/ Chris | 19 Sept
Chris W 19/09/2025
News and chat out of Amsterdam, and Chris’ 🎶 music picks.
Listen back on the mixcloud player above to this edition of our Dam Daily show. Also rerun on our radio station 17-19h, Friday.
Stories included:
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Too much litter? The council says the solution is to remove the bins!
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Cyclist arrested after he hits a pedestrian, flees and then crashes into a tram.
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25-26 degrees expected over the weekend.
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Chemist’s shop attacked in Pieter Calandlaan.
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Standard practice: Prisoners to be released 2 weeks early.
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Threats of attacks on a school in Almere – two minors are being held by police
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Parliament voted yes to more border controls yesterday but none of the votes matter as the cabinet has no obligation to obey and there’ll be a new one soon anyway.
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The city of Arnhem is to hire more handhavers (enforcement fficers to cut down on the amount of intimidation experienced predominantly by women in in the city.
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The once popular Monsterboard job recruitment site is no more – it was bought in 2016 by Randstad for €400m but sold off last year. It now seems the parent. company has been declared bankrupt.
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Broadcaster NPO – the public broadcaster here in the Netherlands say they want to scrap BVN – a TV channel for Dutch people living abroad, NPO2-EXTRA along with NPO Soul and Jazz and NPO Campus. The cuts are ahead of a massive restructuring plan next year.
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