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Normandy rail strike: five lines disrupted this Friday and Saturday
Ticket inspectors walk out after a knife attack on a colleague, with four unions backing the action
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French PM says diesel stockpile release will cut prices by up to 18 cents per litre
Sébastien Lecornu used televised speech to promise release of ten million barrels of diesel and address lycée protests
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Temperatures to drop by 12C as first snowfall to hit Pyrenees and Alps
Storms to continue in the south
Dog-dirt DNA bylaw legal, court rules
DNA technology can be used to track down the owners of dogs that foul the streets of the Hérault town of Béziers,
a court in Marseille has ruled.
However, while the court ruled that the town’s mayor Robert Ménard – elected to office in 2014 with the support of the far-right Front National – has the power to issue the controversial bylaw, it warned the measures are ‘disproportionate to the requirements of public safety and sanitation’.
