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Listen: Stag bellowing season to begin in French forests
Every year, nature-lovers gather to listen out for the sound and even compete to imitate it best. A 500-hour livestream is available of the bellowing season on TV this year
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How a Brittany commune hopes to get strangers talking
A conversation bench is one of many initiatives being trialled to develop a spirit of friendship
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Warning over fire risk as many in France flout rubbish sorting rules
Discarded batteries suspected to be cause of at least some of the fires
More jobs created in France in first months of 2019
Job creation accelerated in the first quarter of 2019 with 93,800 new jobs, mostly in industry and construction, state statistics agency Insee reports.

Jobless numbers fell 0.7% to 3.65million and ministers said they should fall to 8.7% this summer.