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France to spend €43m to improve cycling paths

France is to dedicate €43 million to create more cycling paths in 111 areas, as part of a wider project designed to encourage people to triple daily push bike use by 2024, from 3% to 9%.

French bees and honey production damaged by heatwave

Thousands of bees and beehives suffered due to the unprecedented heatwave conditions in the south of France this summer, beekeepers have reported.

Violent protests in France in new gilets jaunes unrest

Windows were smashed and streets set alight in Nantes (Loire-Atlantiques) this weekend after 1,900 people gathered to protest as part of the gilets jaunes movement and against police violence.

Petit Prince writer’s château bought by French region

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The childhood château of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of much-loved French book Le Petit Prince, has been bought by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, for a €30 million project.

Group calls for “1,000 village cafés” to revive France

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A social and environmental enterprise is calling on 32,000 communes across France to create or re-open 1,000 rural “village cafés”, in a bid to revive the sense of community in small towns.

Doctors join emergency hospital strike in France

An association for emergency doctors has become the first doctors’ union to join the hospital strikes in France, after denouncing measures announced by the health minister as “useless” and “harmful”.

Artist Hockney revels in Normandy lifestyle

"The French know how to live. They know about pleasure," Bradford-born artist says of his decision to leave Los Angeles after 55 years and move to France

Public transport strike to cripple Paris

Commuters and tourists warned to avoid travel in the French capital if possible on Friday as unions walk out in an ongoing dispute over pension reforms - but transport operator RATP offers alternative commuting ideas and one-day offers

French department 'bans' use of glyphosate herbicide

Decree issued a day after MPs began a consultation on whether to impose mandatory zones of up to 10m between treated fields and private residences

Paris Orsay museum opens new impressionist wing

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris has opened a new €900,000 wing dedicated to the works of impressionist and post-impressionist painters, including Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Sérusier.

Living standards in France stagnant for a decade

Average living standards and inequality have remained stagnant in France for the past 10 years, a new report has said, with the average quality of life having slightly improved in the past 12 months.

French rail firm SNCF criticised for platform policy

French rail firm SNCF has been criticised after users condemned its new policy of allowing only ticket holders to access platforms, meaning friends and family can no longer help passengers.

French carte de séjour site for Britons to launch

A new French government website where British people who live in France can make carte de séjour applications entirely online is set to ‘launch during October’.

Car hire firm Goldcar angers European consumers

More than 1,500 complaints about car hire firm Goldcar Rental were received by consumer network Le Centre Européen des Consommateurs last year, it has said, ahead of a meeting on the issue this week.

Missing French Alps climber found...43 years later

The remains of a young climber who went missing in the French Alps more than 40 years ago appear to have been found, with his family never giving up hope that he would be discovered one day.

French minister lists 12 emergency hospital measures

The French health minister has announced a series of measures to address the strike crisis spreading across emergency hospitals in France, but one group has said they are “not up to the task”.

Britons in Dordogne speak out against no-deal

Around 100 people joined a rally in Bergerac, Dordogne on Saturday to draw attention to potential harmful effects of a no-deal Brexit on Britons in France.

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Minister: 1,500 deaths caused by summer heatwaves

Death toll much lower than in the deadly heatwave of summer 2003

French school canteens to go vegetarian once a week

Menus from November will include meat-free meals

France says 'no' to Brexit extension

France’s foreign affairs minister said yesterday that ‘as things stand, it’s no’ – when asked about the possibility of Brexit being delayed again.

French fliers in limbo as BA strike grounds flights

Pilots' 48-hour walkout forces British Airways to cancel almost all its flights

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