Auntie terror

Published Friday 24 February 2017 - 09:35 Modified Friday 24 February 2017 - 09:35

I checked the BBC news website, as every day for six years, to find it blocked by the French ministry of the interior as a ‘terrorist website’!’

BBC is back up now, but this was beyond a joke surely! Has anyone else seen this?

Rai Sugden, Normandy

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