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Homeowner finds gold worth €700,000 buried in his French garden - and can keep it
Gold coins and ingots were discovered as he began digging to put in a pool
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Gas canisters found in car driven into people in Île d’Oléron
Driver deliberately rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on Charente-Maritime holiday island
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Official map reveals one in four people in France live in a flood risk area
Avignon, parts of Lot-et-Garonne and the Mediterranean coast are among areas deemed at particular risk in terms of percentage of residents impacted
Wolf sighting is first in Charente for century
A wolf spotted on the side of a road in Charente is the first to be seen in the department in more than a century.
The latest sighting near Gurat follows confirmation of wolves in the Dordogne in 2015, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in 2018 and 2019, and in south-western Charente-Maritime in late 2019.
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