PROTOCOLS: Roland Garros has limited crowd capacity at next month’s tournament. CREDIT: Roland Garros Facebook Crowd capacity at next month’s Roland Garros tournament has been reduced to 11,500 spectators – significantly lower than the 20,000 originally announced. ORGANISERS also announced today, Monday, September 7, that there will also be stricter safety measures in place to […]
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In a video live-streamed to Facebook just after midnight last night, the 57-year-old Frenchman announced to his followers his plan to die. Raising a plastic cup, Alain Cocq gestured towards the camera and said, “Well, my friends, I’ll drink to your health one last time.” Mr Cocq has asked the government for the law to […]
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France tops 7,000 Covid cases for second day as intensive care admissions rise. image: Twitter France has set a daily record for the country of 9,000 new coronavirus cases. France recorded almost 9,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, setting a record since the beginning of the pandemic. The health ministry also said that more people […]
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22 French schools forced to close days after reopening. image: Twitter Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, said this Friday that 22 schools have had to be closed as a precaution after detecting cases of COVID-19 just four days after the return to school in France. Blanquer said that 12 schools have closed in metropolitan France and 10 […]
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ARRIVALS: Migrants arrive in Dover this week. CREDIT: Chris Johnson Facebook French MPs have been accused of misleading migrants into believing it is easy to live and work illegally in the UK. MPs in the UK today claimed their French counterparts are spreading ‘misconceptions’ and encouraging migrants to cross the English Channel in search of […]
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Five years since the fateful terrorist attack. Credit: Twitter TODAY, Wednesday, September 2, the trial against the 14 alleged accomplices of the terrorist attacks against the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris has begun. The accused are charged with having provided alleged logistical support, weapons and transportation to the perpetrators […]
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THE 2020 Tour de France is in jeopardy after the area which hosts the start of the race, Alpes-Maritimes, was place under a red alert due to the coronavirus. Due to start on Saturday, after the organisers previously postponed the race in June due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tour de France may once again […]
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ALICANTE DIPUTACION: Latest grants will go to social services Photo credit: Zarateman ALICANTE’s provincial council, the Diputacion, has approved two grants that Teulada-Moraira town hall will use for municipal social services. The first grant of €45,031 has been earmarked to help alleviate the social and economic impact of Covid-19. The town hall will now be able to increase its assistance for the homeless thanks to adequate personnel and […]
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Mark David Chapman, 65, the man who famously gunned down John Lennon in Manhattan has been denied parole again, this time for the 11th time. State correctional officers were told by Chapman in previous parole hearings in front of the board that, at the time of the crime, he, “was too far in” “I do […]
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Cases still rising in Spain, suspected 143,000 cases per week SPAIN’S Ministry of Health has today, August 27, announced the number of coronavirus cases in Spain has exceeded 419,000 cases and has reached 28,971 deaths. The government and the autonomous communities have agreed today some measures for going back to school such as the use […]
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