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Teacher uses Twitter as revision aid

If you thought Twitter was only for following celebrities or live events, fermenting revolution, breaking embargoes, or simply sounding off – think again. A La Rochelle teacher is using it to help her final year bacalaureate students revise for their final exams.

Published by Editorial on April 29, 2012 6:00 pm

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Entire Atlantic coast on look-out for fever spreading tiger mosquito

The entire Atlantic coast is now part of the Asian tiger mosquito surveillance programme since it was detected in the Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne last year. The Vienne remains in the programme since it was detected in the département in1999.

Published by Editorial on April 27, 2012 7:00 pm

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Erika’s oily shadow now stretches 12 years

Just a week after the Conseil Régional of the Poitou-Charentes allocated the first of the 2.39 million euros awarded in compensation after the wreck of the oil tanker Erika, France’s worst ever environmental disaster, and over 12 years in the waiting, a French court has indicated it will overturn the decision that made them available [...]

Published by Editorial on April 14, 2012 12:56 pm

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Limited success in campaign to stop rural school and class closures

A wave of angry, yet peaceful, demonstrations, protests and boycotts against proposed primary school and class closures across the region has brought mixed results.

Published by Editorial on April 3, 2012 8:18 am

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Rainfall at lowest for nearly 50 years

Rainfall down, water tables down, river and lake levels down, reservoirs and aquifers at 80 per cent capacity, and summer coming . It’s a familiar litany that heralds yet another drought in France as a decade of below-average rainfall takes its toll.

Published by Editorial on March 19, 2012 8:57 am

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Couple held in attempted murder honey trap

A young man and woman in their twenties were arrested and detained on Wednesday 14 March in the investigation of the kidnapping and attempted murder of a 26-year-old La Rochelle man in the early hours of the previous Saturday morning. Police are still looking for other presumed accomplices.

Published by Editorial on March 17, 2012 8:20 am

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‘The Artist’ in local link shock!

Most of the regional press, including this website, will have spent the early hours of yesterday morning (27/2/12) frantically looking for a local link, however tenuous, to ‘The Artist’, the first French film to win five Oscars.

Published by Editorial on February 28, 2012 9:05 am

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Earthquake in Charente-Maritime

An earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale was recorded a few kilometres off the coast near L’isle d’Oléron on Sunday (26/2/12) morning.

Published by Editorial on February 27, 2012 9:28 am

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Cleaner leaps to death in school playground

A 52-year-old female cleaner jumped from a second-floor window onto the playground below at the collège Robert Cellérier in Saint-Savinien (17) on Wednesday (22/2/12). She was killed in the fall and leaves behind a young son and daughter.

Published by Editorial on February 27, 2012 9:19 am

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Presidential race in full swing

With the first round of the presidential election only two months away on April 22, all the major runners have announced their candidature and their campaigns are in full swing.

Published by Editorial on February 22, 2012 9:52 am