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Roads to avoid as people travel for a bank holiday weekend away
It is the last long weekend before the summer holidays and many people will be going away
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240,000 Citroën cars recalled in France over airbag fault
The fault concerns the C3 and DS3 models specifically
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Where do Britons in right-hand drive cars place France's clean air stickers?
Stickers are mandatory for those driving in or through many French cities
What does bikers’ leg gesture mean?
What does it mean when a motorbike rider puts out their leg when they go past you – are they being polite, or the opposite? T.D.
Putting out the right leg is a sign of thanks, for example if you deliberately slowed and pulled to the right to let the motorbike overtake.
Another biker’s convention is raising the left hand to say ‘hello’ to another biker passing in the opposite direction, known as le salut des motards.