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Fréjus Tunnel that connects France and Italy to close this weekend
The tunnel will close for 12 hours and not the 56 hours originally announced
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TotalEnergies opens service station for electric vehicles in Paris
It is the first of its kind in the capital and has ultra-fast charging
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Conductors on French public transport will soon be able to check your address
Move is part of anti-fraud plans to prevent people from giving false information during fines including on SNCF trains
Beautiful skies as jet pilots dogfight
Spectacular view for south-west residents after fighters write all over the sky with contrails
Fighter planes taking in part in simulated sky-high dogfights left the skies above Les Landes with beautiful cloud formations like this taken by the Visit’ Mont de Marsan tourist site.
The ring clouds were visible across a large part of the south-west of Nouvelle Aquitaine from Mont de Marsan to Béarn, Dax and the Atlantic coast.
Bringing back echoes of the skies above southern England during the Battle of Britain, the contrails left by the fighter jets were acclaimed by social media users on Twitter and Facebook
Regional newspaper Sud Ouest amused readers with daft suggestions as to the cause – Santa out on a training run or Fidel Castro blowing a smoke-ring from space – until it said the cause was three jets from the Mont de Marsan air base and included many more photos from readers.
Then Biarritz Twitter user Denis Pierre provided the proof with this read-out from the FlightRadar24 website of the jets’ traces…
— Denis Pierre (@denispierrev) December 5, 2016