Day: August 4, 2005

Reykjavik Gay Pride 2005 starts tonight at Club NASA; concerts, a parade, theatre shows and parties are among the festivities planned throughout the city for the weekend.

A group of people protesting Kárahnúkar, the controversial hydro-electric development in East Iceland, entered the Bectel working area in Reydarfjordur this morning to disrupt work.

Baugur announced today its involvement in a consortium that acquired Danish department store ILLUM; a buyout of British restaurant supplier Woodward Foodservice; and its purchase of a stake in Danish property company Keops.

An IMG Gallup poll released this week show that voters in Reykjavík favor former talk show host Gísli Marteinn Baldursson to other Independence Party candidates in the next city council elections. An editorial in today’s Morgunbladid praises the current leader Vilhjálmur Th. Vilhjálmsson.