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Hortefeux faces race slur charges
INTERIOR minister Brice Hortefeux faces charges by an anti-racist group alleging racist defamation after his comments to an Arab youth in a video clip.
The executive committee of the anti-racist grou…
Hadopi 2 due to be passed
A LAW designed to punish illegal downloaders in France is finally due to be passed by the National Assembly today after months of fierce debate.
The ?Hadopi 2? legislation will set out a system of …
Cheap cinema deal this week
SPECIAL ?4 cinema seats are on offer until Wednesday as part of La Rentrée du Cinéma.
The end-of-summer event has been extended to include Wednesday, allowing people to watch some of the new rele…
TGV runs over man sleeping on tracks
A DRUNKEN music festival fan has escaped unharmed after a TGV ran over the top of him as he slept between the train tracks on the Paris-Quimper line.
The train driver had spotted a body on the line a…
Barclays hit by French card fraud
A GANG managed to withdraw more than ?200,000 in one night from cash machines across the north of France using stolen British bank cards.
At least 34 men and women travelled to Calais from London wi…
Milk strike could hit shop supplies
FRESH dairy could start to disappear from supermarket shelves early next week after 30,000 French milk producers walked out on strike.
Independent milk producers? association APLI has called the str…
Interior Minister racism furore
OPPOSITION MPs have called for the resignation of Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux after he was caught on video making remarks about a man’s race during an UMP Party event in the south-west.
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Doubt and anger over carbon tax
THE ANNONCEMENT that taxe carbone will be set at ?17 a tonne has been met with strong criticism on how much it will cost to enforce and whether it will work.
The price of a litre of petrol will rise…
Britanny’s islands
Brittany, like Janus, has two faces, one looking inland, and the other facing the sea. Daughter of Neptune, it has a myriad of islands scattered in the Channel or the Atlantic Ocean. Only 15 of them are permanently inhabited. Your journey to Brittany should include a visit to one of them; but which one to chose?
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Carnac
Located in Morbihan, one of the four Britton départements, Carnac stretches its vast surface between the Morbihan Bay and the peninsula of Quiberon.
The name Carnac comes from the Celtic word “cairn†meaning butte, and numbers of hillocks emerge from an otherwise flat land: they were used as landmark for the construction of megaliths that made the site world famous. The place has been inhabited for 450 000 years, as we know from the vestige found in the village. The oldest monument found on the site was built between 5000 and 3400 BC: it is a massive burial mound apparently intended for the elite (all the discovered mortuary artefacts are on display in the Prehistoric Museum), but because of degradation, it is no longer open to the public.
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