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  • Safety Warning For Ethanol Fires

    Created: Sunday, 28 December 2008 11:44
    Fires that burn ethanol as a fuel have been growing very popular in France over the last year or so. Apart from being incredibly realistic, fashionable and apparently green ethanol fires offer a smoke free way to heat homes and are often used as a w...

  • Exotic Art from the President's Father

    Created: Saturday, 20 December 2008 18:17
    Hungarian-born aristocrat Pal Sarkozy de Nagy Bocsa, aged 80, would probably never have exhibited his paintings in Valencia if his son didn't happen to be the President of France; but then Valencians pride themselves on being ready to accept and forgi...

  • Bags of Money for Bruni

    Created: Friday, 19 December 2008 15:49
    Clothing company Pardon has been fined more than 40,000 euros in damages for manufacturing bags which had a nude image of the president's wife Carla Bruni on them......

  • France Heading Into Recession

    Created: Friday, 19 December 2008 11:01
    Figures released this week by INSEE the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies in France indicate that the French economy dropped by 0.8% in the first quarter of 2008 and an anticipated drop of 0.4% in the first quarter of next year ma...

  • Bomb Scare in Paris Store

    Created: Wednesday, 17 December 2008 11:10
    France has tightened up security after explosives were found in a Paris store yesterday. The explosives were discovered in the busy Printemps department store after a the French News Agency (AFP) received a letter from a group claiming to be the Afghan Re...

  • Power Cut Alerts via SMS for Brittany

    Created: Sunday, 14 December 2008 22:06
    Many people living in Brittany are used to frequent power cuts during the winter months but this winter could be worse than usual according to RTE who are responsible for the electricity network that supplies the region. The problem is that Brittany......

  • Ashes to Ashes

    Created: Friday, 12 December 2008 18:27
    New and somewhat bizarre legislation has been passed in France giving for the first time legal status to the ashes of a deceased person and making it unlawful to keep the ashes of the deceased privately or at home......

  • French News Newspaper Goes Into Administration

    Created: Tuesday, 02 December 2008 23:37
    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. ...

  • Crackdown on Motorists Using Mobile Phones

    Created: Monday, 01 December 2008 18:19
    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...