The federal police started to horseback patrol in Belgian coastlines. Two officers on horseback will also patrol the residential areas, on trails unreachable by police cars, or in the dunes. This weekend they have tested it extensively and found it so effective.

–  Actress Mimi Kok died Saturday at 80 in Amsterdam as reported by her biographer. Cook died of a lung disease. 

Hogeschool Gent’s three student trainees assigned in the Gambian capital Banjul are returning to Belgium for fear of the ebola virus in West Africa. Last week, five students from the West Flemish Catholic College Vives returned from Guinea. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls the situation in West Africa ‘alarming’. The worrying news about the Ebola virus put Flemish schools with students in the affected countries to be cautious. No Flemish student currently residing in the border area of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia where the disease has already made more than a hundred deaths.