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Last updated: Wednesday, 08 February 2012

Power demand
hits new record

Freeze alert in 55 departments; traffic badly affected; ice-breaker used to open canal; too-cold car workers down tools

OTHER TOP STORIES

Madonna plays Paris and Nice

More below-zero weather ahead

Air strike enters its second day

Contador stripped of Tour victory

Depardieu to play Strauss-Kahn

Residents warned of power cuts

Flights cancelled due to air strike

Snow and ice hit school buses

Moving to France Week

Dujardin in movie poster scandal

Mayor in court for slapping boy

Price-fix perfume giants fined €40m

Sub-zero all day for most of France

Google fined for giving free maps

Scientology fined €600,000

Cold spell sets in for the week

Court must rule
on sex toy row

Catholic groups launch legal bid to shut down Love Shop for selling "pornographic" items too near school

Cigarettes up
7.6% this year

The price of a pack will see a steep hike in the autumn – but less than expected, due to lobbying by tobacconists

Ministers walk out
over ‘Nazi’ taunts

PM François Fillon and his fellow ministers left a National Assembly question session after insults from a left-wing MP

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Developing the
French Riviera

The Paca region will see schemes of national and international importance taking shape in the coming years