where she started playing senior football in Division 1 at the age of 13 where she excelled with the Lindsey Wilson Blue Raiders college team Mia was awarded “Most Valuable Player of the Tournament” when the team won the NAIA National Championship she also set the record as the school’s all-time top scorer Mia quickly became a key player for IF Limhamn Bunkeflo where she wore the captain’s armband for several years Mia helped the team gain promotion to Damallsvenskan in 2017 Mia signed with Sparta Prague and in the Czech Republic she played in the Champions League and won two Czech league titles She then returned to Sweden to play with FC Rosengård and gained additional Champions League experience she moved across Pildammsparken and signed with Malmö FF Electorate expresses frustration and a desire for radical change though some fear rise of far-right For some, after a record summer heatwave and wildfires in the Arctic, it was about the environment. For others, it was about defending liberal democracy in a country taking a first step towards abandoning it. For many – more, certainly, than in any previous Swedish election – it was above all about frustration and a desire for radical change. Read more“I want to stir up the stew,” said Fredrik Sigleifs, 23, casting his ballot for the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats in the town art gallery in Sjöbo, just over 30 miles (50km) east of the southern city of Malmö, in a constituency where the populist party won 30% of the vote in the 2014 elections. “It’s been the same shit now for as long as you can think.” Sigleifs was sceptical, however, that the Sweden Democrats would win any real influence over government, even if a fifth of the electorate voted for them. “I think the other parties will work together to hold them outside,” he said. Outside the Hedvig Eleonora school in the properous Stockholm neighbourhood of Östermalm, Gabriel Kroon, 21, expressed the same concern. “The only question about this election is whether the other parties will work with us after it,” he said. Sporting an SD2018 teeshirt, Kroon, who is standing for the party in council elections, said it was “making good progress” even in middle class, urban areas such as Östermalm, where it is hoping for a solid 10-12% of the vote. “We’ll get there,” he said. “If not this time, then next time. They can’t ignore this many voters for ever.” Nearly 300 miles away to the south-west, in Biskopsgården, a suburb of Gothenburg that was the scene of a gangland shooting in 2015 andthe killing of a British child with a hand grenade in 2016, Eric, 42, said he was voting “for historic change”. People who pay taxes should get the benefit of them It should be more like Hungary and Austria The values we grew up with are not the values today.” and voting Sweden Democrat for similar reasons I don’t mind if criminals only shoot at each other but if I happen to be in the middle “The Sweden Democrats are a protest party; they wouldn’t have needed to exist if politics had been done in another way,” said Emil Nilsson “You can get upset about them and you say bad things about their supporters see real danger in the far-right party’s rise who came to Sjöbo from Kosovo in the 1990s said he was voting for the centre-left Social Democrats the party of outgoing prime minister Stefan Löfven: “I don’t want to vote myself out of the country,” he said “I have a little daughter I have to think about Voters queue to vote at a polling station in Tomelilla Photograph: Johan Nilsson/AFP/Getty ImagesAminat Iakubova said this was the first time she had felt she really had to vote “I hadn’t read so much about them before,” she said of the Sweden Democrats who both voted for the liberal Centre party also felt this election was about the defence of liberal democracy “One that takes into account the needs and the views of everyone Szugalski said: “It’s really dangerous not to understand what you’re actually voting for if you vote Sweden Democrat But I think people are starting to see we are standing on the edge of a very slippery slope right now.” way more important than previous elections This really feels like a critical moment for this country” While the Sweden Democrats would not enter government however well they did with neither the established centre-right or centre-left blocs in with a chance of parliamentary majority a strong showing would give the far-right party the power to block legislation in parliament “The government needs to be able to take decisions an educator at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm the environment was the number one priority Both voted for the Green partybut also considered their choice “a vote against racism” It worries me that this might be the first step towards their normalisation Sweden may be taking its first steps towards a government like Poland’s.” In Renneburg, another Gothenburg suburb, Eleza Blostain, 50, who works with disabled people, fears the growth of the Sweden Democrats. “We have to stop them,” she said. “It is too dangerous. I am Jewish. Thousands of Jewish people have left Europe this year and gone to Israel because they are afraid of growing far-right influence.” In the staunch Social Democrat stronghold of Bergsjön said crime and drugs were undeniably big issues who leads the local branch of the Christian Democrats in Sjöbo said the normalisation of the far-right party was inevitable “Twenty-five percent of people vote for them,” he said “If they want to support a government with normal policies Amy Jin and Zina Fragkiadaki in Gothenburg This article was amended on 10 September 2018 Swedish Radio local channel in Malmö reports that emergency services were called on Friday after the streams waters turned a chalky white color The leaking pipe was found and later plugged The municipality’s environmental department is inspecting the river to see if any damage has been caused by the milk “The consequence could be that the fish are dying and that oxygen is being displaced in the water,” said Martin Andersson field officer at Southeast Skåne’s fire and rescue services Andersson said there is little use in crying over the spilt milk He said officials simply let the river flush away the milk in due course Canada:  Sewage lagoons full due to freezing in two Arctic Canadian communites Finland: Sewage leaks into Finland’s Maskunjoki River Russia:  Russian rivers freshening the water of Alaska’s Beaufort Sea United States:  Arctic rivers discharging more water could have broad climate effects For more news from Sweden visit Radio Sweden and website in this browser for the next time I comment.