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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
Catapulted on to the international rugby scene at the
age of 21, Ben Cohen remains to this day a modest,
humane man, totally committed to his job and
family. Roger Steptoe went to Brive to meet the
latest professional British recruit to this dynamic
national rugby team
With the motto “I’m
only as good as my
last game”, Ben
Cohen MBE is a force to be
reckoned with when it comes
to rugby. Father to 21-weekold
twin girls Harriet and
Isabelle, and husband to
Abby, he’s brought his
family to Brive where his
rugby-playing school friend
Steve Thompson (known
affectionately as Wally) has
been behind the scenes of the
rugby club’s recruitment
stakes for the past year: “We
were in the Northampton
Junior Club together. We met
when we were 12 and have
played together in every
team in Northampton.”
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A new Cancer Support France branch is to set up in the
Creuse. CSF provides support, information and a listening
service for Anglophones affected by cancer, and covers five
départements with three more in the pipeline. All activelistening
volunteers receive specialist training. The new
branch in the Creuse (to be based in Guéret) is looking for a
venue for meetings and for more local volunteers to help with
administration, fund raising or support work.
If you can help in any way, please contact
Helen French,
05 55 63 35 73
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Christine Wakefield, 05 55 62 29 68,
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
Lalique, the world-famous glass
works in Wingen-sur-Moder, has
been bought by Swiss businessman
Silvio Denz.
Through his company, Art et
Fragrance, he plans to extend facilities
and take on 150 more staff.
The site already employs 260
people. Unlike many other luxury goods
manufacturers, the company is doing so
well that it did not have enough labour
to satisfy demand, coming particularly
from Asia and Russia.
The key to Lalique’s success is the
skills of its master craftsmen handed
down from generation to generation.
Well-known for his interest in fine
glassware – he has an impressive
collection – Denz is a discreet
businessman who makes wine at
Château Faugères in Saint-Émilion,
runs his business in Switzerland and
lives much of the time in London. He
also markets perfume, notably Parfums
Alain Delon and Jaguar Fragrance.
Lalique, an independent subsidiary
of Art et Fragrance, also sells several
brands of perfume including Tendre
Kiss, Flora Bella and Encre Noire.
Newcastle out of British hands
Anglo-Saxon beer drinkers can no longer boast that the biggest brewery in Europe, at Obernai in
the Haut-Rhin, is British.
Scottish and Newcastle have sold
out to Carlsberg Heineken.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
Palæontologists in the
Jura who once kept
secret their discovery of
fossilised dinosaur footprints
in order to protect them have
now revealed two important
fossil sites near Coisia and
Loulle, not far from the
Swiss border in the Jura
mountains. An exhibition has
been mounted to teach the
public about the findings.
Since 2002, prehistoric
research in these mountains
has revived on both the
French and Swiss sides. The
Jura, with its complex rock
formations, is the origin of
the word jurassic, used in
both geology and the famous
film about dinosaurs. The
building of the new A16
motorway on the Swiss side
uncovered a host of
fossilised dinosaur tracks,
including those of mothers
with their young, at the first
new site at Courtedoux (near
Porrentruy).
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
A unique rubbish disposal technique will ease Burgundy’s roads of lorries.
Brian Warshaw explains.
Ashort stretch of
Burgundy’s Canal du
Centre, the 112kmlong
waterway linking the
Atlantic Ocean with the
Mediterranean Sea, will be
used to transport 30,000
tonnes of household refuse,
saving 22,000km of road
travel. The project will
involve building a special
barge, a new refuse
collection site and two
terminals for loading and
unloading large refuse
containers.
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