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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
An eight-year-old girl was
taken into intensive care
in a Pau hospital in
November, suffering from
meningitis. She later died.
The department of health for
the Hautes-Pyrénées, with
the schools inspectorate and
the préfecture, arranged for
her family, close friends and
classmates to be given
preventive antibiotics.
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
The new reservoir below
the hilltop town of
Castelnau-Magnoac
was completed this summer
after two years of work.
Besides Castelnau on the
river Gèze, the communes of
Larroque and Peyret-Saint-
André are also involved. The
reservoir (lac artificiel) will
hold five million cubic
metres of water and has cost
more than nine million
euros.
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
Robin Hicks chats to the Sixties legend, on tour in France.
Wildchild and 60s
pop star Marianne
Faithfull wooed a
near-capacity crowd of 2,000
when she appeared in
Béziers new Zinga Zanga
venue, at the start of her
short tour in France.
“I can’t do long tours
anymore – unlike the men of
my generation – but I love
the short ones,” she says.
Actually, when she first
came off the stage after a
punishing one and a half
hours, her words were
“F**king nightmare”.
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
Flown in from Holland to
complete the Mare
Nostrum’s major tank, five
sand tiger sharks seem quite
at home in the 24°C water as
they appear to eye up the
multitude of small, colourful
tropical fish.
The sharks complete the
ménagerie of 30,000 animals
representing 300 species,
which will make
Montpellier’s Mare Nostrum
aquarium a must-see.
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
Residents of the small
beach resort Palavasles-
Flots (34) are
reeling, following the
discovery of an Ali Baba
treasure hangar in a recent
customs raid.
The booty of a group of
French divers comprised
almost 1,000 artefacts
(pictured), including
Mexican piastres (silver
coins), guns and cannon,
plundered from a shipwreck
off the coast. Also found on
the premises were some 400
Gallo-Roman and Etruscan
vases and amphorae, taken
from the river Rhône and the
outlying waters of Fos.
Manager of the
department of sub-marine
archeological research
(DRASSM), Michel L’Hour
estimated some of the Gallo-
Roman pieces to be worth
hundreds of thousands of
euros: “They are superbly
conserved and could go
directly into a museum
showcase.” While satisfied at
the dismantling of the
network, he expressed his
outrage at such predators
regularly helping themselves
to an international maritime
heritage.
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