We don’t often report national news unless it’s specifically related to the P-O – there are other sites far more capable than us for doing this (The Local, The Connexion, Languedoc Living…) so we stick to…

Collioure.fr – best town hall website for less than 5000 population

Collioure’s website has won first prize in the 2016 Communication Trophies, the 15th edition of the national competition to recognise the best communication tools.

A British lady was mugged last Wednesday by a team in broad daylight in Lidl car park in Reynes. They were very slick and fast, so she thinks they have probably done it before and therefore are likely to try it again, and warns people to be on their guard.

This is my first Airport Review since the momentous Brexit vote in June. Of course, the airports and airlines had already fixed their Winter 2016-17 flight schedules long before this, and so far, they have remained unscathed.

Buy a calendar to help sick kids

Flodama, a local video production company, has teamed up with Joa Joie, an association to help hospitalised children, to produce a calendar to raise funds for the cause.

The group ‘Oui au pays catalan’ ask you to help to keep the region’s Catalan identity by writing to your local mairie and asking for them to put up a ‘Pays Catalan’ sign next to the entrance of your town or village – if it doesn’t have one already.