This morning’s TGV n°6172 and the TGV n°2902, which left Nice is currently stopped between Aix-en-Provence and Avignon due to a person being hit at 9.20am. Read more …
After long months of tortuous negotiations and discord, the 370 million euro contract with Vinci Construction has finally left the ground. Opponents of the project – including some residents of neighbouring Beausoleil who will be overshadowed by it – brought their protest all the way to the President Nicolas Sarkozy but to no avail.Read more …
The Riviera Times have joined the hunt for a dangerous criminal, convicted of fraud in the UK and wanted under a European arrest warrant. Since 2008, Mogens Hauschildt, 68, has been on the run with one million pounds belonging to 87-year-old widow, Pamela Schutzmann. Read more …
“That iz it!” the Belgian artist spluttered. “I am no longer going to waste my time on the provincial and the small-minded.” I held the receiver away from my ear a little. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciated his point: he’d overcome the snow and the second-class train travel to appear at his vernissage at MAMAC the week before, only to be rudely set upon by an unruly youth who had taken offence at his tattooed pigs. Read more …
Since the dawning of rock ‘n’ roll, the idea of being in the music world has held a powerful allure. Children often fantasise about pop stardom: dancing in bedrooms, singing into hairbrushes or playing in garage bands.Read more …
Last month, 15 local rugby players came to face-to-face with their biggest rivals. The conditions were treacherous, the pitch waterlogged after days of torrential rain, yet the stadium was full and the atmosphere was electric. Being a key clash between two of the top teams in Fédérale 1, Nice versus Béziers was always going to be a big game, but there was something else driving this: it was a Saturday night and the stadium was glowing under the brilliant beams of brand new flood lights.Read more …