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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
Artificial heart man’s transplant
A man who was kept alive after being fitted with a Carmat artificial heart has had it removed and a heart transplant put in its place.
The French makers of Carmat said it was fitted for eight months and had allowed blood pressure to fall and improve liver, lung and other organ functions to be fit for the transplant, carried out on the local patient in June in Kazakhstan.
