Agrinio
Greece
Extensive Damage As Storm "Penelope" Sweeps Greece
The isle of Corfu, Karpenisi, Agrinio, Tripoli and Nafpaktos and many other areas in western and central Greece suffered severe damage this week from storm "Penelope". The weather system, which has lashed Greece since Sunday, brought heavy rain and high winds to...
Greece
An ERT technician Creates the Beetle Car of his Dreams
Giannis Ziovas bought a 1970's VW beetle nine years ago for 600 euros. From almost a decade ago until present day Ziovas worked on the beetle in a storage unit it Agrinio, and gave a new form to the classic image...
Greece
Greek Hotel on List of 'Historic Hotels of Europe'
Marpessa Smart Luxury Hotel in Agrinio, Greece is now part of the Historic Hotels of Europe group, as well as the collection of Yades Greek Historic Hotels. This is the 18th hotel in Greece to be considered a part...
Greece
Bus Hits Truck: 2 Women Dead
Two women have died and at least 12 people were seriously injured on Tuesday, in the area of Malgara outside Thessaloniki, Greece, when a bus crashed into a truck.
According to Christos Lioupas, the President of Thessaloniki Intercity Buses, the bus was...
Diaspora
Shock in Agrinio- Mother of Three Children Hangs Herself
The sad list of suicides lengthens. A young mother committed suicide in the quarry of the village in Lepenou, Agrinio, Greece. The 35-year old woman ended her life by hanging herself.
As it was reported, the young woman disappeared last...
Greece
Golden Dawn MP's Former Bodyguard Arrested
Golden Dawn MP Costas Barbarousis' former bodyguard was arrested by the police in Agrinio, as after a survey carried out at the local Golden Dawn offices, the police found a police cap, a helmet with two leg braces from...
Business
Philip Morris Warehouse For Agrinio
Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will meet with the President and Managing Consultant of the tobacco company Papastratos, Nikos Theofilopoulos, to talk about plans for a new central warehouse for all of Europe, to be built in the western...
Crime
SDOE Closed Four Businesses in Three Days
In the midst of the summer season in Greece, the Financial and Economic Crime Unit (S.D.O.E) conducted extensive spot checks all around the country. In four cases, the auditors discovered serious discrepancies and shut down four businesses.
In particular, during...
Crime
Student Stabs His Mother Over TV Dispute
The local society of Agios Konstantinos of Agrinio is shocked by the news of a student who stabbed his mother because she told him to turn the TV off.
The crime occurred at 2.20 after midnight when, according to preliminary...