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This year Agen will host the 10th national area waste
management conference (assises) on June 18 and 19. It aims
to find new approaches by bringing together more than 2,000
professionals in the field to take part in a wide variety of
workshops, forums, displays and visits. There will be a
scientific symposium open to all participants, at which
researchers will share their latest findings on waste and
public health, and the organisers are expecting a
lively exchange of views on best practice and
‘eco-conception’.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
Bordeaux is France's most
pleasant city, according to a
survey publishedin May.
According to the survey
carried about by national
estate agents' group ORPI,
32% of residents in Bordeaux
interviewed found their city to
be "more than pleasant". This
was the highest figure in the
survey, with Biarritz/Bayonne,
Lyon and Paris following
respectively. Shockingly, the
national average was almost
half the percentage of
Bordeaux's, at 19%.
It would seem that
Bordeaux's 'pleasantness'
reflected in other aspects of
the property survey, the desire
to build or buy a home in
Bordeaux was much higher
than in other French cities.
However, nearly half of
those interviewed believed that it was expensive to buy in Bordeaux, and that the price in housing would continue to rise in
2008. This, it would seem has stopped many people from already buying a house, with 21% of Bordelais saying that they
would wait for the prices to go down before they would consider investing in a property project.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
The romantic lull of the South
Pacific comes to Brive this
month. The club is getting ready
for a Pacific Night hosted by the five
South Sea Island three-quarter players.
Keith Charge, Brive’s English-speaking
supporters coordinator, says:
“This is the last social event of
the season. Members of the
Brive squad will be there. I’m
hoping there’ll be a good turnout
from the local Englishspeaking
community.”
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fakeit? Then you’ve got it
made,” said dramatist and diplomat Jean Giraudoux. Roger Steptoe goes to
Bellac to discover how the famous Bellacois has influenced 55 happy summers
of theatre, cinema, literature and music
‘Délit d’Swing’ on the opening evening
Bellac’s native playwright is
immortalised in an annual
festival which this year celebrates
its 55th anniversary. The event dates
back to 1951 when André Cluzeau, the
mayor at the time,
unveiled a monument to
Jean Giraudoux, who
always said that Bellac “is
like the most beautiful
town in the world”. After
the unveiling, Cluzeau and
André Steiger, the eminent
Swiss-born film and
theatre director, dreamed
up the drama festival at
Bellac in his honour.
The director of this
year’s festival is Philippe
Cogney. He is excited at
the plans for this 55th
year: “I’ve tried to
programme the festival
around its history. One
show of wider interest to
French News readers is ‘Un Impromptu
de Bellac’, based on a play by
Giraudoux, and co-produced with the
Théâtre National de la Colline in Paris.”
Cogney also highly recommends ‘La
Nuit des Feux’, written by Eugène
Durif.
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
Along the Paris-Toulouse railway line in the Creuse, Saint-
Sébastien can now see a faint glimmer of light at the end of a
long tunnel. French News has widely reported the SNCF’s
attacks on small stations with plans to reduce services or
close them altogether. Saint-Sébastien’s plight was noted in
March. Since then, Gourdon’s association, Tous Ensemble,
has taken to the Paris-Toulouse tracks in the Lot with equal
force and a membership totalling more than 1,000.
The local association CODEGASS (Comité de Défense
de la Gare de Saint-Sébastien) has now asked Creuse’s préfet
Daniel Ferey for a round-table meeting with the SNCF
authorities. The préfet has agreed, and so CODEGASS’s
protest, planned for Guéret on May 3, was cancelled in an act
of good faith. However, all is not back on the rails and the
association welcomes new support. Contact the mairie for
more information.
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