France’s Nuclear Safety Authority has given the country’s nuclear installations a clean bill of health. Its annual report, presented to the French Parliament on Wednesday, declared them “fairly satisfactory” and officials say that is a pass mark in the nuclear exam. via www.english.rfi.fr Read more →
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French local election gains for socialists and far-right - The Guardian
France's opposition Socialist party comprehensively won local elections Sunday as the far-right National Front surged, between them pressuring Nicolas Sarkozy a year before he faces the electorate. via www.guardian.co.uk Details of the second round of results can be found at Elections Cantonales 2011. Read more →
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Cycling in the shadow of Marie-Antoinette
FOR her latest book Susie Kelly takes to her bike to follow the route taken by Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI when they tried to escape the Revolution. After writing about her walking adventure from La Rochelle to Geneva (Best Foot Forward, pub. Bantam 2003) and driven the entire circumference of... Read more →
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Forest fire warning for the Dordogne
RESIDENTS of the Dordogne are being warned about the risk of forest fires with four fires reported just yesterday (March 24). The Sud Ouest newspaper says that the fire officer for the Dordogne, Bernard Maumelle, believes there is a 'severe' risk of forest fires and that people have to take... Read more →
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Keep an eye out for ticks
I HAVE just got back in from a walk with the dog and picked three ticks off her coat, and will be keeping me eyes peeled for others from now on. Ticks can pose real dangers to your pets, but also to people themselves, so as the days get warmer... Read more →
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Local elections see gains for left and far right
French leftists and the resurgent far right enjoyed strong showings in local elections Sunday that left President Nicolas Sarkozy’s governing conservatives struggling to maintain prominence. Sarkozy’s role in launching the international military intervention in Libya on the eve of the voting did not immediately appear to have swayed the outcome... Read more →
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Work the Languedoc Jelly way
IT can be a lonely place running a small business in France, whether it is hunched over your laptop or driving through the dark after a day of sales pitches. In an attempt to break this sense of isolation, Languedoc Jelly has been launched to let people work together and... Read more →
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Septic tank changes for property sales in France
SINCE the turn of the year a report on the condition of a property's septic tank, if it has one, has been necessary before a house sale. Here Keith Lacey, owner of a waste water and sewage treatment business based in the Mayenne, takes a look at this new addition... Read more →
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Fighting shale gas plans in the Lot
OPPOSITION is growing against plans to begin exploratory operations for shale gas (gaz de schiste) in the Lot region of south west France. Websites Say No to Shale Gas and Schiste Happens are warning that if drilling begins then the environmental damage from the activity could poison water courses, see... Read more →
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MSF works in isolated Japanese community devastated by quake
On Tuesday, members of the 11-person Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team in the area devastated by last week’s earthquake and tsunamis worked in evacuation centres with local medical staff in a small, isolated community in Miyagi prefecture. “There were two local doctors in Minamisanriku who have been working in around... Read more →
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