A Hell's Angel was arrested yesterday and charged in connection with the killing of a rival Bandidos biker gang member outside a popular northern Denmark restaurant.

When a particularly fierce Baltic gust caught the ferry soon after she sailed from Nyborg harbour, everything lurched to starboard - except my coffee. Cleaning up the spillage, I looked wistfully at the plans for through trains from the Jutland peninsula to Denmark's capital, without a sea trip. They start tomorrow, connecting Copenhagen by fixed link with the rest of Europe for the first time.

Of the trio of grand old men of Danish music, only Hermann D. Koppel is left: Vagn Holmboe died last September and now Holmboe's teacher, Finn Hoffding, has gone too, 19 days after his 98th birthday. Hoffding's compositions seem - unjustifiably - to have fallen from current favour, although his selfless activity on behalf of music education will ensure that his contribution to music-making in Denmark lives on.

An anti-tank grenade was fired into a prison at Koege, 12 miles south of Copenhagen, housing members of the Bandidos biker gang, injuring one gang member in his cell. Police said the grenade apparently did not explode.

In a 35-year operatic career Kurt Westi developed from a light lyric tenor with a sweet-toned but small voice into the robust interpreter of Verdi's Manrico, Don Carlos and Radames, and Puccini's Rodolfo, Cavaradossi and Pinkerton.

Imre Karacs in Copenhagen on the absence of bikes and leather as the trial begins

The Hell's Angels have abandoned their headquarters in central Copenhagen, which were hit recently by an anti-tank grenade, city officials said yesterday.

The streets of the European Capital of Culture are cool, cosmopolitan and just made for strolling, says Nigel Williamson

For a modern composer, to write one opera is daring enough, but to write 11... And yet, since 1964, that's just what the Dane, Bent Lorentzen, has done. And in his latest, Tristan Variations, he takes an even bigger risk, inviting comparison with one of the greatest operas of them all: Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

THE HISTORY OF DANISH DREAMS by Peter Hoeg trs Barbara Haveland, Harvill pounds 14.99

From Mrs Joan A. Davis

From Mr Tom Mowlam

Henning Kronstam was a pillar of the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen; handsome, romantic and poetic.

From Mr Damian Killeen