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Stena Line to end popular France-Ireland ferry crossing
Rival operators will continue to serve Cherbourg port as passenger numbers on route increase
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Red heatwave alerts continue as storms sweep across France
South-west and Brittany are the only areas likely to avoid storms this evening after several temperature records were broken in the south yesterday
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Air traffic controllers’ strike: Paris and south of France airports to face major disruption
Half of flights in Nice and Corsica, and a quarter in Paris are cancelled on July 3. Disruption is also expected on July 4 just before the French school holidays begin
Anti-drone eagle attacks five-year-old

Air force chiefs are rethinking their use of golden eagles to stop possible drone attacks on security sites after one eagle attacked a girl at a picnic in the Pyrénées and clawed her back.
The bird can down drones quickly in a terror attack but dived on the five-year-old, who had a top tied round her waist, as she played with other children at col d’Osquich.