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20.07.2010
Services: Riviera Times celebrates 100th issue
2010 is the year of important anniversa-ries: we’ve already had the 100th birthday of the Oceanographic Museum and 150 years of Nice in France. This month, biggest of all, we have 100 issues of The Riviera Times!
This was going to be a light-hearted look back at the 100 issues, but the floods which devastated parts of the Var last month, and in which 25 people lost their lives, inevitably switched the focus.Read more … One hundred issues and counting
03.02.2010
Services: Railway services across the PACA region will be seriously disrupted until 8am tomorrow
A strike by members of several trade unions means there will be fewer trains operating today in France, with many services being severely disrupted until 8 am tomorrow morning. Read more … Train strike today
27.01.2010
Service: Cameras at five sets of traffic lights in the Toulon region are now in operation
After months of tests, five out of seven of the cameras installed to catch red light jumpers at junctions are now in operation having been switched on at midnight. The machines have been set up at junctions in Toulon, La Valette, La Seyne-sur-Mer and Ollioules.Read more … Var cameras active to catch red light jumpers
06.01.2010
Service: Hundreds of letters discovered abandoned by river in the Var
Police have found nearly five hundred letters, many of which had been opened, on the banks of a river in the Draguignan district in the Var. It is the third such “lost in the post” incident to surface in recent weeks.Read more … Lost in the post at Draguignan
