A GIFT BOUGHT IS A GIFT GIVEN UNICEF are delighted to announce the arrival of their new Christmas stock – a range of cards toys and gifts to suit everyone. A present bought from…
Vic’s Big Walk70-year Old Walks Into His Own History Book BUY THE BOOK As his 70th birthday loomed, Vic Heaney wanted to do something special to mark the occasion. Unlike the rest of us,…
Europe’s largest solar power plant in the heart of Perpignan Saint-Charles International in Perpignan, the first European distributor of fruit and vegetables, is now a major producer of green energy. Europe’s largest…
17 November – Crêperie Saveurs du Temps, Thuir. “Jelly” comes to Thuir! « Jelly! » is a casual coworking event, for freelancers, home workers and people running small businesses to meet and work…
Listeria Alert in the Roussillon Listeria has been discovered during a routine test undertaken by a Leader Price store. A large number of Leader Price supermarkets have since been obliged to issue a warning…
Health Insurance Offers Now is a good time to start shopping around for the best deals on health insurance. Even if your policies aren’t up for renewal/resiliation until the end of the year, you…
English bell-ringing comes to the Pyrenees by Catherine Ladd As previously reported by ‘P.O. Life’, the small Anglican congregation of Vernet-les-Bains held several days of celebrations in early July 2011. The high…
Free wind power for your house. We are a small rapidly expanding business based in Céret and we’re looking for a good site to install a 1kW Futurenergy wind turbine. The site will be used…
Strikes in Perpignan Teachers’ union SNUIPP (Syndicat national unitaire des instituteurs professeurs des écoles) has already planned its first strike of the year in the P-O, for 27th September. This first protest is against…
Saturday 8th October 2011 Nuit des Draconides On Saturday 8th October, our planet will cross a trail of meteors, a storm of tiny space rocks, causing a spectacular meteor shower in the…