Category: Current Affairs

SPRING has arrived at full speed in Villefranche du Perigord with blossom, bugs and sunshine making the recent cold weather a distant memory.

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THE increasing popularity of talking to friends and family via the internet, either very cheaply or more often for free, has seen services like Skype take off.

Skype allows you to talk to people via Voice over Internet Protocal (VoIP), which is just another way of saying telephone services via the web.

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AFTER moving to France you are likely to be using the internet more often that you did previously.

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ON a chill Monday morning the sun rises over the hills to warm the frosty fields and valley floor.
Here the castle above the village of Sauveterre la Lémance, in the Lot et Garonne, is the first to catch the sun.
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IF you are bringing a pet to France one of the things you need to be aware of are the dangers posed by ticks and other insects.

Diseases such as leishmaniasis, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and heartworm can prove fatal so precautions should be taken.

It is possible to buy Frontline spray-on and spot treatment that can be applied to cats and dogs, make sure your pet doesn’t try and shake it off once applied.

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IF someone told you a story about a man who was a member of the French resistance, became a chef and mixed with English aristocracy you may wonder if it was fact or fiction.

But French chef Raymond Lempereur survived the German occupation and moved to London from Vichy in 1948 to work for the French Ambassador in Kensington Palace Gardens.

After a year at the Ambassador’s residence, he was recruited as head chef to the Earl of Sefton at Croxteth Hall near Liverpool.

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AS bookshelves groan under the increasing number of titles about moving to France, standing out from the crowd can be a challenge.

But a new book about moving to and living life the French way has achieved just that something a bit different.

More France Please, We’re British, by Helena Frith Powell, offers first hand experience from not only the author herself but others she has interviewed.

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THIS morning saw the first real frost across the fields of Villefranche du Pergigord, the grass and bushes glistening in the sunshine.

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THE banking industry has warned people to be on the look out for a new wave of cyber-crime targeting online bank accounts.

Many people use the internet to keep track of their UK accounts as well as buy goods and items online.

But APACS, the banking payment association, has launched a new website to inform people of what to look out for and so protect their account.

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AS the sun begins to rise the early morning mist sits in the valley floor of the river Lot.

Captured from above the small village of Duravel, and looking south, it has cleared within half-an-hour.

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