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French senator backs foreign retirees refused citizenship over pension income
Refusals have been worded as due to income coming ‘mostly’ from abroad
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Vanessa Paradis’ former French home for sale - at half price it was once valued at
Mill property has been left abandoned for several years
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Flashes return on French speed cameras
The government says that flashes are a ‘good educational tool’
Frog chorus may cost €150,000
Judges have ordered a couple to pay €30,000 in damages and fill in a pond after neighbours’ complaints about noisy frogs...
But doing so makes them liable to a €150,000 fine and two years’ jail for damaging protected species in the pond.
Michel and Annie Pecheras at Grignols, St Astier, Dordogne, have battled the case for six years and will now appeal to the Bordeaux court for a solution – while green campaigners want to take it to the European Court.
The pond has been on the property for more than 100 years and a petition to save it has drawn 138,000 names.
