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• Volcanic Ash Cloud Grounds all UK & French Flights

  Created: Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:49

  All flights to and from the UK have been cancelled as a vast ash cloud from yesterday's Eyjafjallajokul volcano eruption in Iceland drifts towards the UK forcing all airports to close. ...

• Fatal storms batter France

  Created: Monday, 01 March 2010 09:52

  Fierce storms with winds over a 130 mph battered France yesterday killing more than 50 people and leaving around a million homes without power forcing the government to declare the storms a "national catastrophe"......

• New bill to support carers of terminally ill patients

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 12:25

  The French parliament has voted in favour of a new bill which will give the partner or relative of a dying person an allowance to care for them. It's a sensitive issue which is aimed at making it easier for both terminally ill people and their c...

• Expats claiming winter fuel allowances

  Created: Wednesday, 17 February 2010 00:11

  It has been revealed that almost 65,000 British expats living in Europe are receiving winter fuel payments which could be costing the British government nearly £14 million each year......

• English Woman Murdered in Nice

  Created: Sunday, 14 February 2010 10:41

  An English woman has been found stabbed to death in her apartment in Cagnes-sur-Mer in Nice. The woman has been named as Carol Ann Hagues, a grandmother aged 65 and originally from Oxford......

• Britain plans to sell Dover to the French

  Created: Monday, 08 February 2010 09:17

  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a backlash after revealing plans to sell off the port of Dover to the French......

• France's Internet Piracy Law comes into effect

  Created: Friday, 01 January 2010 08:43

  After a bitter battle to get it through parliament France's new three strike internet piracy law or Hadopi as it is known finally came into effect today... ...

• Thousands trapped in Channel Tunnel as Eurostar trains breakdown

  Created: Saturday, 19 December 2009 21:52

  More than two thousand people spent up to fifteen hours trapped aboard four Eurostar trains in the Channel Tunnel last night after freezing temperatures brought the high speed trains to a halt......

• Seeking book authors in Brittany, Normandy and the Pays de la Loire

  Created: Saturday, 12 December 2009 16:36

  A new writers' group aims to provide support to English-language writers living in France's Grand Ouest region......

• Political parties set to dote on those who vote!

  Created: Saturday, 12 December 2009 16:22

  There are fewer than 13,500 British expatriates on the electoral register, a tiny fraction of the estimated six million Britons living abroad. Many British expats simply don't realise that they are still eligible to vote in UK elections once they have mov...

• France to ban domestic violence

  Created: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 23:24

  France is to introduce tough new laws in order to ban domestic violence. The government is also planning to conduct studies on the electronic tagging of violent partners in order to prevent them from stalking their victims or carrying out further atta...

• French woman marries boyfriend a year after his death

  Created: Monday, 16 November 2009 22:34

  A young French woman, 26-year old Magali Jaskiewicz has married her boyfriend a year after his death. Tragically her boyfriend Jonathan George died in a car crash just two days after the couple had finalised their wedding plans. ...

• French women do get fat

  Created: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 22:16

  Whoever said French women don't get fat was wrong according to a recent study carried out by TNS Sofres Healthcare and the Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche. The study published this week claims that 26 percent of French women are overweight w...

• What makes the French 'French'?

  Created: Saturday, 07 November 2009 12:58

  French immigration minister Eric Besson has launched a three month debate on France's 'national identity'. A series of debates and public meetings will be held around the country in an attempt to discover what makes the French 'French'......

• Cadarache Nuclear Plant Shut Down

  Created: Saturday, 17 October 2009 13:24

  The French nuclear safety watchdog ASN has suspended dismantling work at the Areva nuclear plant in Cadarache after several kilos of unaccounted for plutonium was discovered at the site... ...

• People in France live longer & enjoy a better quality of life!

  Created: Monday, 12 October 2009 16:47

  The UK and Ireland are the worst places in Europe to live, according to the latest uSwitch.com Quality of Life Index. While the UK enjoys the highest net household income in Europe, quality of life is the poorest, proving that there is more to good living...

• Aggressive Asian Hornet Invasion

  Created: Monday, 28 September 2009 11:38

  Swarms of aggressive Asian hornets are reported to be spreading across France from the south after they arrived as stowaways in a cargo of pottery from China in 2004......

• Wave of Suicides by France Telecom Workers

  Created: Saturday, 12 September 2009 02:51

  France Telecom has come under heavy scrutiny after a wave of suicides by staff members. During the last 18 months there have been over 20 suicides by France Telecom workers many of whom left notes blaming the stress of working for the company......

• New French Carbon Tax

  Created: Friday, 11 September 2009 01:17

  France is planning to introduce a tax on carbon which if it goes through will come into effect next year. The new tax is aimed at individuals and is supposedly designed to 'encourage' people to reduce their carbon footprints by using less fuel......

• Tourist Spends Night Locked in Town Hall

  Created: Monday, 24 August 2009 16:21

  A tourist from the UK spent her first night in Alsace locked inside the local town hall. The woman who was in her thirties had asked locals directions to the nearest hotel and when following their pointing she stumbled across the very impressive loo...