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Watchdog highlights Christmas food shopping ‘scams’ in France
Pastries with palm oil, excess packaging, inflated prices…vote for the worst ‘scam’ in this food watchdog’s annual contest
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Epidemic alerts raised in France: see how your area is affected
Bronchiolitis is bad nationwide while flu indicators are increasing in the north and east
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Cheaper but slower… €10 train fare for Paris to Brussels route
Ticket sales are already open for journeys up to the end of March
A sneak peek at April's edition of Connexion
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Here is a sneak preview of what's inside:
- How you can play your part in French history
- Our reporter's experience of the French nationality culture test - and key topics you need to know
- Make sense of ... vide greniers
- Solar Panels installation prices fall + Tips from readers who have done it, and the financial aid available
- Fined for paying local taxes in France by cheque - but we are not resident and cannot pay online
- Mandataires: How to buy a second-hand or new car with big savings (if you are careful)...
- All creatures great and small: the daily lives of France's vets
- Can I leave money in my will to my pet?
- Selling up? Why you need to understand your tax liability
- Will taking French nationality affect inheritance law on UK?
- How France inspired sensual work of William Russell Flint
- COMMENT: Wind turbines won’t stop nuclear so why disfigure France with them?
- Malus fees for second-hand cars
- Becoming French through French children
- The status of British 'European' passports after Brexit
- Life in the slow lane taking French towns by storm
- Colmar: The town building on a millennium of Franco-German influence
FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS
- Bear necessities - how France can protect its wildlife
- How to be a literary translator
- Message in a bottle: A grand cru tour of the wines of the south of France
- The joy of cooking with children
- Open Gardens charity returns for a big new season
- Keep or quaff: why we age wines
- Sorceress, midwife, poisoner: the scandalous life and loves of ‘La Voisin’
- Bilingual crosswords + quiz + readers’ letters + books and films + events + lots, lots more
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