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French weekend weather forecast April 25 - 26: sunny and calm
Riviera will, unusually, be the coolest area
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Learn to love the complexities of the French language
Reader argues that weird spellings and homophones are part of the soul of a living language
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Temperatures of 30C forecast for south-west France - and storms
Conditions ‘more similar to August than April’ expected until the weekend
Winter fuel gift gone cold
Recent low temperatures remind readers of the WFA appeal
Your notification of the expected drop in temperature to -11C [newsletter] reminds me that I was led to believe that an appeal had been made for us to receive the WFA again, as the figures used were at best spurious or false. Is there any news on this front?
J A Norris, by email
A change of heart is unlikely as Brexit negotiations continue.
The UK government website reads: “You can’t get the payment if you live in Cyprus, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Malta, Portugal or Spain because the average winter temperature is higher than the warmest region of the UK.”
The Winter Fuel Payment was stopped as of winter 2015/16 on grounds that France is “too hot”. (Overseas departments such as Guadeloupe and Martinique were included in calculations).
