CIGARETTE prices are due to rise 6% next month – making an average price of ?5.60 a packet from October 5.
It is the first price rise for two years and has come directly from tobacco manufacturers w…
0 Read MorePATIENTS staying in hospital may have to pay an extra ?4 a day next year
Putting up the forfait hospitalier is one of the ideas being considered by the government to help reduce a social security de…
0 Read MoreRAIL unions are planning a day of strike action across the SNCF network on September 22.
The four main rail workers’ groups met on Wednesday to discuss industrial action in protest against proposed c…
0 Read MoreAN MP who was part of a reception party for President Sarkozy received a broken wrist after his arriving helicopter blew her over.
Orne MP Sylvia Bassot was waiting to greet the president who was vis…
0 Read MoreTHIS summer was one of the sunniest and driest in the past 60 years, according to new data from Météo France.
The weather forecast agency said 2009 was the fifth hottest summer on record since 1950…
0 Read MoreThat way they won?t want to live in yours say animal association.
0 Read MoreBURGLARIES in some parts of France are up by more than 60% on last year, according to new research.
The Observatoire National de la Délinquance said house break-ins were up by 12% nationwide between…
0 Read MoreSTAFF at the Education Ministry have been left red-faced after they issued a press release on school reform littered with dozens of spelling and grammar mistakes.
The information pack was handed to j…
0 Read MoreMUNICIPAL police have been barred from using Taser electronic stun guns by the Conseil d’Etat because there was not strong enough supervision.
However, Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said a new la…
0 Read MoreA LOTTERY-winning couple in the Charente have agreed to pay for a year?s supply of school meals for every child in their town.
The anonymous pair have given ?70,000 out of the ?50m Euromillions ja…
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