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Happy Newish Year!
| 07/01/2012
Did you forget to wish somebody a Happy New Year - or "Bonne Année" if you offer greetings in French?
No problem. The French go on wishing Happy New Years to all and sundry, in writing and by wo...
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2011: What a year that was!
| 31/12/2011
Well, it was, wasn't it? Think just what the world managed to pack in during those twelve months of 2011. Events from the hopeful to the horrific, and including every experience in between.
Sittin...
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A light goes out of the Dieppe night
| 19/12/2011
Did you know Bernard Françoise ? Very likely not, unless you are an occasional or habitual night bird in Dieppe: such as my old colleague Ron Gillings, legendary sub-editor of The Times, the Guardi...
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The old Entente not so Cordiale
| 18/12/2011
There is an old fiction that the two neighbouring countries, France and Britain, have been great allies through the centuries. And we have the Entente Cordiale (signed in 1904) to prove it. Now we ...
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Good news for the Channel link
| 15/12/2011
International summit meetings don't always go smoothly. The one this month in Brussels, called to sort out the crisis in the euro zone, had the British prime minister walking out in a huff at 4am. ...
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