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La Voie Bleue: European Cycle Route of the Year is in France
700km bike path linking Luxembourg and Lyon has been crowned winner of the 2026 title
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Before and after: Garonne river floods in south-west France
Satellite images show extent of flooding from back-to-back storms in February
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Home insurance increases expected in France after floods
Compensation costs for the recent storms and flooding across the west and south-west is estimated to be in the billions of euros
UK pension delay 'being resolved'
The Pensions Service says problems over late pensions caused by delays in approving Life Certificates were in the process of being resolved as we went to print.
Connexion asked the Department of Work and Pensions what was happening after reader Paul Williams, in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, told us of delays on his pension. He had queried this and said he had been told there were others in France.
The DWP said it was aware of a problem where some Life Certificates – which pensioners have to supply as proof that they are still alive – had not been processed but that it was “a tiny minority” of pensioners and it would be “resolved shortly”.
It is thought fewer than 100 pensioners were affected but the DWP could not say if they were all in France.
