STAFF 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…
0 Read MoreHUNDREDS of motorists flocked to a small petrol station in Picardy after it accidentally knocked a third off the price of a litre of fuel.
The self-service filling station in Nogent-sur-Oise, near th…
0 Read MoreSIX of the seven Continental tyre factory workers charged over the ransacking of a sous-préfecture have been given suspended jail sentences of between three and five months.
The seven workers were …
0 Read MoreA MAN who found ?100,000 in bank notes in a bin behind a hardware shop has returned the cash to its elderly owners in full.
Yvon Wonterghem, whose son owns the Bricorama in Saint-André on the outsk…
0 Read MoreA new radio show for English-speakers in the Charente is looking for volunteer contributors to get involved
0 Read MoreA NUMBER of lakes running alongside the Loire in the Rhône Alpes have been closed to the public after more than 200 birds were found dead in the water.
Fishing and watersports have been banned in th…
0 Read MoreA POSTCARD that a young man sent to his fiancee has been delivered 72 years after it was posted to a Monaco woman, but arrived 40 years after she died.
The card with an Alpine view was found by posta…
0 Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT is increasing the size of the grants it gives to almost half a million university students by up to 3% to help them cope with rising costs.
About 100,000 students from under-privileged…
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