GERMANY FRANCE

Cold heart

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron has come under scrutiny after being seen at an Elton John concert while his country is ravaged by riots. The British rocker was performing in the Accor Arena on the first night of the European leg of his huge farewell tour and it was considered uncaring for the President to attend.

Ram raid

A CAR was driven into the home of Vincent Jeanbrun, the mayor of the Paris suburb of L’Haÿ-les-Roses in Val-de-Marne, in the early hours of Sunday, July 2. The ‘ram-raid’ incident occurred at around 1.30am while the official was at the City Hall, ‘as he had been for the last three nights.’

Orxit

Crash diverted

GOOD news as a huge underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock has been discovered in Norway which is believed to be the largest in the world and will be suitable demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries for the next century according to the company controlling it.

AFTER Brexit, it seems that the tiny Scottish Island of Orkney is considering its own Orxit as its council leader believes that it could be better off reverting to its 15th century status as a dependency of Norway rather than continue to be ‘mistreated’ by Scottish and the UK politicians.