3 BREAKING NEWS 3 The official opening of the Le Boulou bypass has finally been set for Friday 9th July, at 16h. Thursday 8th will be an evening of celebration in Le Boulou with complimentary…
The Lions Club (who sponsor Enfants & Santé, a charity raising money for research into childhood diseases such as leukaemia) organised two events over the holiday weekend of Saturday 22nd to Monday 24th May. The…
Smile please – you’re on camera! At least two ‘red-light cameras’ have been installed in Perpignan centre to catch drivers running red lights. Although they are not yet in service, the prefecture has announced that…
“Molló Parc” – new park for nature lovers After several years of work, 12 hectares of la Berneda, in the valley of Camprodon, 7km from *Prats de Mollo, has been transformed into an animal…
Snow shoe walking 3 by Jane Mann 3 There may be one more snow shoe walk this winter. Watch this space! On Tuesday Mike Rhodes led his group onto the chairlift at Formiguères, a wonderful…
Be alarmed, be very alarmed! 3 Smoke alarms become obligatory in France 3 Whilst more than 85% of homes in Britian now have smoke alarms installed, the trend hasn’t yet filtered through to France where…
The Masked donkey (“Burro Masqué”) Created in summer 2005 by the Catalan nationalist party in Roussillon, the Bloc Catalá, the donkey known as the”Burro Masqué” was a symbol of the successful opposition to Georges Frêche’s…
Collioure loses ‘Doc Martin’ Collioure has lost out to Doëlan in Brittany to become the film location for the broadcasting of popular British television comedy drama ‘Doc Martin’ on TF1 next year. Filmed originally in…
Customs allowances from Spain and Le Perthus [(The following allowances are PER CAR, not per person.)] – Cigarettes – 5 cartons (1000 cigarettes) or 20 cartons if you declare them at the customs offices (on…
The documentary described below, now finished, will be screened on Thursday 17th December on Catalan channel TV3 at 23h05 [(Argelès concentration camp)] A moving documentary of the ‘concentration camp’ hastily set up on the beaches…