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Four departments put on orange heatwave alert
Hot weather warnings look set to increase over the coming days
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Tourism and leisure sectors in France commit to water saving measures
25 industry players will receive government funding to reduce consumption
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French pharmacists threaten summer of ‘guerilla’ strike action
Protests, closures, and blockades of medicine depots are all on the agenda as anger in the sector rises
School plea to allow smoking is rejected
Government rejects plea to allow pupils to smoke in school.

Calls by school heads for lycée and collège pupils to be allowed to smoke in school to save them from added terrorist risk by leaving the premises have been rejected by the government, which said it would be better to help them quit smoking.