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GR, GRP, PR: What do the French hiking signs mean?
What are the coloured symbols on French hiking routes? Who paints them there and why?
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Miss France: glam - but not sexy
Miss France organiser Geneviève de Fontenay fears she is fighting a losing battle to protect her 'Cinderella dream' from vulgarity
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Normandy Landings visit for Queen
Queen Elizabeth has confirmed a state visit to France, ending rumours she is handing over duties to Charles
Equitable Life compensation
British pensioners who lost out in the near-collapse of Equitable Life will be compensated
BRITISH pensioners who lost out in the near-collapse of Equitable Life will be compensated as part of the UK’s spending review: £1.5 billion has been set aside.
Whitehall says it will cover full "relative losses" of people who had with-profits annuities, who they say were the hardest-hit, using £620 million to give payments for life.
The rest of the money will be paid in lump sums to other policy holders.
A representative in France for policy holders campaign group Emag, Graham Richards, said this would leave most members with "next to nothing".
Emag would be consulting lawyers and talking to backbench MPs to see what could be done, he said.