Overview
- Lawyer confirms the Vught prison hostage suspect is Corné H., who was immediately arrested and is the same man linked to last year’s Ede café hostage case.
- Papiermakerij Doesburg will close on Monday due to high costs and low income, ending local production of hand‑made paper and the province’s only custodian of the craft.
- Dozens of congregations in the Christian Reformed Churches are weighing separation over disputes involving female pastors and homosexual members, raising the prospect of a rare nationwide split.
- A person was found dead Saturday evening in a car at football club DTS’s parking lot after unsuccessful resuscitation efforts by bystanders and emergency services.
- Exceptionally mild weather continues as Rotterdam The Hague Airport set a 14.3°C date record last evening, with highs near 13–14°C today and rain moving in on a strengthening southwesterly wind.