A roundup of the news on Monday

Great Belt Bridge roadworks to cause traffic disruptions this week

The Great Belt Bridge will be briefly closed in both directions Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week while maintenance work is carried out.

Traffic will be redirected to run in both directions on a single carriageway, but both lanes will be briefly closed while the redirections are set up, the bridge’s official website states.

The maintenance work will be carried out during the evening and night.

A speed limit of 80 km/h will apply and overtaking will be prohibited while traffic runs in both directions. This is scheduled between 7pm and 5:45am.

As part of the switchover to two-way traffic, the bridge will be completely closed between 7pm and 7:45pm on Monday and Tuesday, and again from 5am to 5:45am on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“There will be delays during the closures, so motorists are advised to cross the bridge outside those times,” the website states.

Supermarket chain adds security tags to high-risk items

Supermarket chain Salling Group says that several of its stores have begun attaching security tags to specific items.

“We’re seeing a rise in theft, including from people we wouldn’t normally suspect of stealing. Unfortunately, that means we’ve had to start putting alarms on the most vulnerable products,” Christoffer Roslyng Green, press officer at Salling Group, told news wire Ritzau.

Salling owns the Netto, Bilka and Føtex chains in Denmark.

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Decisions about which products to tag are made at store level, Green said. High-value cuts of meat and bottles of wine are among the items most often either locked away or fitted with alarms.

“Each store has a say in which items are most at risk in their local area. That can vary from one region to another,” Green said.

Danish veteran Fuglsang to quit cycling after Giro

Danish rider Jakob Fuglsang, winner of two Monuments and twice of the Criterium du Dauphine, has announced that he will be retiring after the final stage of the Giro d’Italia, at the age of 40.

“The last stage of the Giro on Sunday will be my last race for Israel Premier Tech,” the Dane said in a video released by his team.

“I’ve had a fantastic career that has given me much more than I ever dreamed of. But all good things come to an end and it’s time for me to spend more time with my family and make way for the young riders.”

While Fuglsang is closing his career as a team rider, he said he might make a final farewell by riding one last time in the Tour of Denmark, which he has won three times, in August.

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Danish riders like Fuglsang and two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vindegaard are generally held in high regard in a country where cycling is arguably the second most popular sport after football.

Weather: First week of summer brings showers, clouds and some sun

The first week of summer is forecast to offer up variable weather and temperatures on the mild side, meteorologist Mette Zhang of the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) told Ritzau this morning.

“Temperatures probably won’t reach what we’d typically associate with summer weather,” Zhang said. 

“But somewhere between 13 and 19 degrees could feel quite pleasant if you can find a sheltered spot on the sunnier days,” she added.

Monday will start with a mix of sunshine and clouds, before showers gradually move in from the west.

“The further east the showers travel, the more intense they could become with the potential for thunder,” said the meteorologist.

Various degrees of cloud, rain, sunny spells and moderate temperatures are forecast throughout the rest of the week.