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The popular English language newspaper the French News has gone into administration. The paper was founded in 1987 but
now sadly it seems to have become another victim of the credit crunch.
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The French government have launched a crackdown on drivers using mobile phones, French statistics show that 41% of motorists admit to occasionally using a mobile phone while driving and that 72% of those drivers feel that they do not put themselves or oth...
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Martine Aubry has been elected the French Socialist Party leader beating rival Segolene Royal by just 42 votes...
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The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) has said that there is a risk of explosion at at the Nuclear Power station at Cruas-Meysse in the Ardeche. The ASN carried out safety checks at Cruas in September and again on the 24th October and have been monito...
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A court of appeal in at Douai in northern France has overruled an earlier decision that had annulled a marriage between a Muslim couple because the wife had lied about being a virgin....
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France faces more transport disruption this week as the Air France strike continues. Workers are protesting against government reforms to raise the retirement age of flight crew members up from 60 to 65 years of age....
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Following the seizure of one of their vessels by French port authorities over non payment of taxes the cross channel ferry operator SpeedFerries Limited has gone in to administration......
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Cross channel ferry passengers planning to travel with Budget ferry operator SpeedFerries have been warned to expect cancellations this week as the popular ferry operator has had one of its Dover to Boulogne vessels seized by French port officials over no...
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The French senate has voted overwhelmingly in favour of legislation drawn up by Nicholas Sarkozy that gives illegal file sharers two warnings before disconnecting their internet access.
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Hundreds of families across eastern and central France had to be evacuated from their homes after torrential rains caused widespread flooding while in the southeast flash floods and mud slides swept away dozens of cars damaging homes and businesses......
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Makeshift camps of tents along the banks of the canal St Martin are familiar sight
to many Parisians and in Paris alone the cold weather has caused the deaths of three
homeless people in little more than a week....
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It is now possible to book flights for children under 12 years of age travelling alone. Air France is the first airline to offer the possibility of online reservations for these passengers on all its flights and on those of its franchised airlines......
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A French Judge has rejected Mr Sarkozy's lawsuit against the company K&B who have been manufacturing Voodoo lookalike dolls of the president. The judge Isabelle Nicolle told the court in Paris that the dolls fell...
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A French lift maker is having to change the buttons in over 500 of the
elevators that it has installed all over France after it was found that the
buttons contained traces of radioactive Cobalt 60...
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It seems that President Nicolas Sarkozy has absolutely no sense of humour and
has threatened to sue a French publishing company that has begun manufacturing a
'voodoo doll' fashioned in his image...
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A freak tornado in killed three people and destroyed around 40 houses in northern France last night. The tornado struck at around 11pm local time at the town of Hautmont in the Nord-pas-de-Calais region of France......
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SpeedFerries, the low cost fast ferry operator of the Channel, has announced
that they have now launched a new foot passenger service between The Hoverport
at the Western Docks in Dover and the port of Boulogne......
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17 people were injured at a military show in southwest France after a soldier accidently fired live ammunition into the crowd of spectators who were standing just 10 metres away......
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A court in Lille has been condemned by feminists, civil rights organizations and the French government after it ruled to annul the marriage of a young Muslim couple after the husband discovered on their wedding night that his bride was not a virgin......
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Ryanair has announced that it has filed legal proceedings against the French trade union CGT (Confederation General de Travail) after it suffered losses arising from unlawful strikes by union members employed as check-in, fuelling and security staff at Ca...
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