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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
Bottle ‘post’ is slow
Holiday campsite owners in Normandy have been in touch with a nine-year-old American schoolgirl to tell her that the message in a bottle she threw into the sea from Florida had arrived.

Summer Smyth and her nanny put messages in a bottle two years ago. It was found on a beach at Baubigny in Manche.