If you’re a stressed-out parent running out of ideas for how to keep your baby entertained, help is at hand. A Frenchman has come up with the first radio station on the internet for infants aged up to three. Continue reading…
Category Archives: Journalism
How Paris is trying to wean lovers off bridge locks
In the midst of the tourist season, which has seen lovers flocking to historic Paris bridges to affix a padlock declaring undying love before throwing the key into the Seine, city authorities have taken a brave decision. Continue reading…
Great mollusc meltdown leaves French all at sea
The jolly voicemail message on Cyril Pain’s mobile phone tells callers that if he doesn’t answer, “I must be out getting a suntan on my boat”. But this is no time for jokes in France’s oyster industry, the largest producer of the fleshy silver molluscs in Europe. Continue reading…
Narcotics officer under investigation after cocaine theft from police HQ stuns France
A French narcotics officer has been placed under formal investigation on suspicion of stealing more than 50kg of cocaine from police headquarters in Paris, in the most serious and embarrassing scandal ever to hit the elite police squad. Continue reading…
Ethnic riots in Calais as Albanian gangs charge African migrants for access to port area
More than 51 east African migrants desperate to reach the “El Dorado” of the UK were injured in ethnic clashes early today in Calais over access to lorry parks, in the second night of rioting near the ferry terminal. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 