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Photos: snow returns to French Alps in July
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Neighbour who complained about noisy cockerel in France ordered to pay €3,500
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Child injured, roads closed, homes evacuated: latest on major fire in south of France
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Loto losers as magic trick fails thousands
Predictions made by magician were not correct after all
Thousands of lottery players lost out when they tried to back numbers predicted by a TF1 TV show magician... he had said they would win €2 million with his numbers.
So many viewers tried to pick the six numbers that Loto machines refused to take more bets as they are limited to just 45 bets on the same permutation – there are 14 million combinations. The numbers lost.