Those who own such a blade have until December 7 to hand them over to police or risk a prison sentence of up to five years and a €75,000 fine. These blades are not commonly used in homes but are ...

Dramatic scenes were recorded in the south-east and Brittany last night and today as major storms battered France. Heavy flooding early this morning in Brittany led to the death of a woman, 55, after ...

New French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu avoided a crisis in his first day in the job yesterday, as the day’s ‘Bloquons tout’ protests failed to deliver on their promise to shut down the country on ...

A motorist whose car braked suddenly at 120km/h on a motorway near Lyon is calling for urgent recognition of the risks posed by automatic braking systems in modern vehicles. Joanna Peyrache was ...

A growing number of retired UK public sector workers in France say they have been billed thousands of euros in unexpected social charges on their 'government' pensions, despite longstanding rules that ...

A retired university lecturer from south-west France is preparing to appeal after being turned down for citizenship because his main income is a pension based on work in the UK. This is the second ...