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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.
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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"......
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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...
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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......
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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......
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a backlash after revealing
plans to sell off the port of Dover to the French......
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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...
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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......
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A new writers' group aims to provide support to English-language writers living in France's Grand Ouest region......
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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'......
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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...
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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...
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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......
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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......
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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......
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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...