IF you are planning to hire a car in France and have a UK licence and paper counterpart, be aware that from 8 June the paper part is no longer set to be a legally valid document. Many car hire companies ask for this paper counterpart, instead the DVLA say... Read more →
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Winter Fuel Payment website highlights concerns and campaign work
WITH the Winter Fuel Payment for British pensioners in France set to end in autumn of this year, a website is available to highlight many of the issues and concerns of people. The winterfuelpayment.info website explains how the payment works, but more importantly the reasoning given by the UK government... Read more →
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When a herd of giraffes paraded through a swimming pool, by animator Nicolas Deveaux
FRENCH animator, Nicolas Deveaux, has gained a reputation for making beautiful films featuring animals in the most peculiar environments. Here he takes a herd of giraffes through a swimming pool, and off the high dive board, while one of his earliest films featured an elephant and a trampoline. Not surprisingly... Read more →
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Take a drone tour of the Vallée de la Vézère, Dordogne
Jump on the back of a drone as it takes you around some of the sights of the Dordogne. Read more →
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Convicted killer arrested as body parts of missing Brit found
A man has been charged with the murder of an 80-year-old British woman living in southwestern France after police found a “mutilated” body in “two different locations” in woods matching her description, a prosecutor announced on Thursday. Violet Price, a pensioner living in the southwestern Lot-et-Garonne region, went missing from... Read more →
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French MPs vote to change laws on smoking, nutrition, binge drinking, fashion models
France’s lower parliament voted in favour of a package of wide-ranging reforms affecting many areas of public health regulations on Tuesday. Many public health lobbyists are happy about the changes, although they say some measures still need to be elaborated in practice. Most of the attention the proposals of Health... Read more →
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An 80-year-old Englishwoman still missing from her home in Lot-et-Garonne
GENDARMES are continuing their search for an 80-year-old Englishwoman missing from her home in the Lot-et-Garonne since the weekend. The Sud Ouest website reports that Violet Price went missing from her home in La Croix-de-Moustier, not far from the popular Dordogne village of Eymet and that her son raised the... Read more →
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Remembering First World War link between Manchester and Charleville-Mézières
AN exhibition has opened that celebrates the ties between Manchester and the French town of Mézières - which reach back 100 years having been forged in the crucible of devastation wrought by the First World War. The Lord Mayor of Manchester Councillor Sue Cooley was joined by the Mayor of... Read more →
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Why a Briton from Carcassonne plans to stand in UK General Election
JAMES Franklyn Jackson is an accountant and former treasurer of Colwyn Borough Council and later the Falkland Islands Government. He now lives in Carcassonne. Oh and he is standing in the UK General Election in May, he writes: "My action was brought about by my interest and disgust in current... Read more →
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A single poppy in the sunshine
A SINGLE poppy has popped up close to the freshly turned vegetable patch, enjoying the spring sunshine like everyone else. Read more →
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