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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
Analysis and tests on fish
in Picardie waters, made
between July and September,
revealed the presence of
many types of
polychlorobiphényles (PCB),
which are harmful to humans
when consumed.
It is from now forbidden
to sell fish from: The Somme
from Saint-Quentin to Saint-
Valery-sur-Somme,
l’Omignon, les Trois Doms,
l’Avre – from Roye to the
Somme and l’Ancre – from
Albert to the Somme. This
adds to a national problem;
three other river basins, the
Artois-Picardie, Rhône-
Méditerranée and
Seine-Normandie are also
affected by PCB pollution,
as well as the Seine estuary.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
The large local Polish community has
always been held up as a model of
integration. To mark the end of the Year
of Poland in the Pas-de-Calais, the
welcome club Accueil des Villes
Françaises (AVF) in Hesdin invited the
journalist Jacques Kmieciak to chair a
conference on Polish integration in the
département.
The discussion turned to how the
current fifth generation of Poles,
numbering some 220,000, is different
from preceding ones. Kmieciak said
that most Poles under the age of 40
cannot speak Polish, don’t know their
nation’s history or geography and have
abandoned their religious, folk and
culinary traditions.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
Join a cause espoused by Prince Charles.
“Acountry which produces more than
365 types of cheese cannot lose
the war!” exclaimed Général de
Gaulle in his day. But if we’re not careful,
the cheese that, to quote Président
Mitterrand, “unites every French citizen”
could soon be lost in a battle of technocrats.
Let’s look at the turbulent history of
camembert.
First made during the French Revolution
in the village of Camembert by local farmer
Marie Harel, it soon became so popular that
the cheese industry appropriated it. Thus
started the saga of diminishing flavour...
In 1909, the Normans reacted, founding a
Syndicate of Real Camembert Producers,
which stipulated that a good camembert had
to be “a soft round cheese, lightly salted,
containing at least 38% fat and made in
Normandy from whole cows’ milk”. But the
harm had been done: the king of cheeses was
already being made all over the country.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
The ‘Dossier d’Aide à la Décision’ (Help to reach a
decision report) is taking up many column inches in the
local press, credited with enabling authorities to finally
decide on the logistics of Rennes’ second underground
railway line. Thus we read, amusingly, “This Dad will help
establish the final route and start viability surveys” or,
“Thanks to Dad we will finally be able to get this project off
the ground”.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
After a three-year
R&R, the
four
brightly
coloured
statues of nude
ladies have
returned to
Rennes’
place de
Bretagne.
Since they first
appeared in December 2000,
the life-sized sculptures have
had a difficult time surviving
cars and passers-by, who
regularly adorned them with
bras and knickers, or touched
up their bums with scarlet
paint. In 2002,
thieves were
caught
trying
to
cram
one of
the
darlings
into
the
boot of
a car.
Then
in
2003,
the red
lady was found
cut in half and her blue sister
nearly fell apart after being
constantly entwined by
passing lovers. The last straw
was in 2004 when the water
fountains at each statue’s feet
broke down. The conseil
municipal decided that, given
the ladies’ fatigue, a serious
re-think was needed. They
put the four out to pasture
for some powerful
revitalising.
   
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