Dam Daily w/ Chris | 7 Nov

“Chilly this morning but I’ve got some great tunes to warm you up including a new track from Lilly Allen.. she’s back!”

Listen back to the show on the mixcloud player above. Also rerun on our radio station 17-19h, Friday.

News stories shared include: 

• Death toll in Philippines is rising: hurricanes
• Uni of Twente is scrapping degrees awarded cum laude saying the current set up doesn’t help women
• Nexperia chips should be available again soon. Yay!
• Koolmees sitting down with polarly opposed political parties to see where bridges can be built
• 783kg cocaine seized at the port of Rotterdam. 6 parties involved: biggest single seizure 600kg in a container from Costa Rica
• More reports this morning of drones over airports in Belgium. This time over Liege. Yesterday, flights in and out of Brussels were disrupted, also due to drones.

AMSTERDAM

• Huge power cut happening right now and affecting over 3000 homes. Streets affected included Anton Waldorpstraat, Cornelis Lelylaan, Jan Eisenloeffelstraat and Willem Van Konijnenburgstraat with postcodes 1062, 1065 and 1058. Liander – the people responsible for the electricity cables in the ground – say they hope to have power restored by 10:30.
• The A10 ringroad will be closed from the west down to the south part over the weekend due to road works around Nieuwe Meer. Closing tonight at 10pm and reopening only on Monday at 5am. => Busy around Amstelveenseweg, Hoofddorpplein and Nieuwe Meer areas too of course.
• The link road from the A10 west to the A10 South towards the A1 and A2 is closed all weekend. The other direction, towards Leeuwaarden and Zaanstad closed from tonight until tomorrow morning. And if that wasn’t enough the S107 (Henk Sneevlietweg) also partly closed at night. Diversions are signposted.
• Christmas trees available to order now from BeterBoompje. They’ll deliver it in early December or you can pick it up. If you take one with roots, they’ll replant it after Christmas and otherwise they will plant a new tree in its place.

More news links

Links to news stories, events or tips from our shows are shared on our Pinterest boards, here. If you don’t see our embedded Pinterest boards above, just refresh your browser.

🎧 2-minute news roundup

As well as Dam Daily radio show and the news clips shared on the station throughout the day, we also produce a 2-minute audio bulletin of local news, produced as a micro-podcast and shared on all podcast platforms, for listening to short news items on demand. Listen back here and/or follow on your preferred podcast platform.