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country to operate in any other EU country, without having to apply for a separate banking licence. Now that the UK is outside of this system, any British bank wishing to have customers based in the EU must obtain new legal permissions and set up separate legal entities in each jurisdiction. For many high street banks, the number of customers they have does not justify this cost.

The latest move by Barclays affects current and savings account holders, but not those with ISAs or mortgage accounts, and customers have six months to now make the necessary arrangements. Any balance held in an account after the account is closed will be securely

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The UK bank has become the latest to write to its French customers, informing them that their bank accounts will be closed in the next six months.

arclays Bank has written to its French expat customers to let them know that their accounts will be closed in six months' time. While the letter - entitled “Please take action: we need you to close your account” - does not use the term “Brexit”, it is clear that the move is a direct result of Britain's decision to leave the EU. “We're applying limitations to the banking services we provide to customers with an address in the European Economic Area (EEA),” the letter states. “We're sorry to say this means we need you to close your account.”

Since Brexit, the UK banking sector no longer has access to the so-called financial “passporting” system which allows banks in one

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fter two years of disrupted plans, we made sure not to sign up to anything too ambitious for our summer holidays this year, fearing the lastminute cancellations and disappointments that have defined the last few summers. To be fair, as a family we rarely go away away as pre-pandemic my youngest was just that little bit too young to make it practical and printing The Bugle each and every month makes extended trips just a tad complicated.

Instead, we planned a handful of mutli-night trips all within a few hours of home, a couple of overnighters to catch up with family and friends visiting the area and even a few day trips. The idea was that the kids would not get too bored as at any given point there would always be something to look forward to in the next week or so.

That's the official line and I'm sticking to it.

It just so happens to be a completely unrelated coincidence that this approach resulted in us being unable to find a clear window to fit in a visit from the outlaws meaning they now can't make it over until the autumn...

The largest of these trips came right at the start of the holidays, just after the kids had broken up and in that quiet period after the paper had been distributed. We had managed to squeeze in a five-day camping trip to a site in the Dordogne that we have stayed at before and we were all very excited.

I travelled a fair bit in my earlier life and since the advent of kids and the subsequent absence of any time to myself, all I now want to do on holiday is sit on my own in a comfy chair with a good book and a cold drink. I also prefer to go somewhere I've been before so that I know what to expect (and pack) and where there are no unpleasant surprises.

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on restaurant ordering.

I eat out so infrequently nowadays that I would rather order a dish I know I will like enjoy than take a risk on something I've never heard of that could be amazing... but could be disappointing. I realise that this is a really negative way to approach life and I do simultaneously bang on at my kids to never be afraid to try new things. I get the hypocrisy of the “if you never try you never know” mantra juxtaposed against my newfound reticence to take a chance, but there you have it.

I would be far more adventurous if I ate out more regularly and equally I would be happy to try new and exciting adventures if we were the kind of family that holidayed every few months. But we're not, and if I've only got a few days to relax, then I am taking the fewest risks possible with that time.

So I knew where we were going, I remembered the layout of the campsite, when the bar and restaurant were open, and crucially that they had good beer and an excellent wine menu. I arrived safe in the knowledge that there were plenty of on-site activities for the kids and that the pool was safe enough for them to be left pretty much

alone. For the first time ever, all of my children were old enough to be given some money for a drink and an ice-cream and told to be back in time for tea.

It was perfect... nothing could go wrong... I dared to dream.

Of the six days and five nights we were there, I think the coolest day was a sweltering 36 degrees. As Caroline Aherne would have said in that Fast Show sketch from the 90s; Scorchio!

Single handedly putting up and taking down a sixperson tent in high-thirties heat was an experience I'm not too keen to repeat.

Doing anything inside the tent between 9 am and 10 pm... forget about it. To be fair, everything else was just as I had hoped: the kids did leave me alone; the beer

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was cold and delicious; and it was just about possible to find a shady corner with enough breeze to sit and read.

We have another, slightly shorter camping trip planned further south in about a week, once this paper is fully out. I've just checked the weather for the area... 34, 39 and 38 on the three days we are there. Whatever I did in a former life must have been unspeakably bad!

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Human error behind A20 motorway closure

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t had been rumoured for a while, but the cause of the accident that recently closed the A20 at Limoges has been confirmed as human error. The motorway was initially shut in both directions at the end of June when part of a flyover that was under construction fell, causing huge traffic jams on the important north-south axis just as the country was gearing up to head away on holiday.

Not only did the accident cause a great deal of disruption for residents and tourists, it effectively cut off the Family Village retail park from traffic south of Limoges, leading to significant losses for businesses. The motorway was ultimately closed for two weeks, but did reopen two days before schools broke up for summer and in time for one of the busiest traffic days of the year.

“It was human error by one of the employees... a complete idiot,” said Guillaume Guérin, president of Limoges City, a theory that was later confirmed by Eiffage, the construction company building the flyover. “The CEO of Eiffage phoned to apologise and then in writing. He also confirmed that any costs incurred will not be passed on to the city.”

Although the stability of the foundations and concrete supports was never in doubt, strict safety protocols had to be followed before the motorway could be fully reopened. “It was important to react as quickly as possible given the traffic implications for locals,” said Fabienne Balussou, prefect of the Haute-Vienne. “We had to reopen safely given that we are faced with a structure that weighs 700 tonnes over a road that carries 70,000 vehicles every day.”

Officials for Limoges City confirmed that Eiffage had offered to cover the costs of the accident and that they would not be taking any further legal action against the construction company. This compensation is unlikely to cover lost income from local businesses, however, leaving much anger and resentment over the unnecessary closure. ■

Veggie burgers and vegan sausages back on the menu

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ans of veggie burgers and vegan sausages are celebrating news that the country's top court has suspended a law banning manufacturers from using certain carnivorous terms from their marketing. Under the proposed changes, first introduced in 2020 and due to come into effect in October, producers would be banned from using words such as burger, sausage, steak and escalope to describe their meat-free alternatives.

According to the decree, “The names used to indicate foodstuffs of animal origin shall not be used to describe, market, or promote

foodstuffs containing vegetable proteins”, a move welcomed by lobbyists for the country's meat industry - currently worth around €35 billion.

The enforced U-turn brings France more into line with the EU's wider policy of allowing “meatstyle” descriptions of plant-based foods, but not for dairy items. “The Conseil d’Etat has accepted our argument that it is impossible for plant-based products to completely ‘leave the lexical field’ when it comes to meat substitutes,” explained Guillaume Hannotin, a lawyer for the Protéines France group

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Barclays closes expat accounts >> continued from pg 1 held until it is claimed and it has been reported that any overdrafts will be passed on to collection agencies.

The move will come as a blow to thousands of expats who rely on their UK bank account to receive pension, rental or overseas income, and who in many cases have been with their bank for many decades. For those losing their UK bank accounts, taking and making Sterling payments through a French Euro account will undoubtedly incur significant transaction fees, the number and size of which are also growing as Britain withdraws further from the EU. Although it is a major high street bank north of the Channel, Barclays is just the latest in a string of banks ditching its expat clients and experts have warned that just because your bank or financial provider has not made any changes yet, that does not mean that they won't do so in the near future.

A number of UK banks are maintaining expat accounts – for now at

least - although the vast majority will not accept new applications. There are a number of “international” solutions available to more wealthy expats, but these often require minimum balances or monthly transactions that put the option beyond the reach of those living off modest pensions.

“These are often operated by the bank’s international arm, e.g. HSBC International, which is based in Jersey, and they’re really aimed at high-value, working, transient expat types, so they’re not really designed for UK pensioners who are living in France, for instance,” explained Ryan Frost, a private client adviser at Harrison Brook France, adding that minimum deposit levels of around £30,000 are not uncommon. “They will give you a UK account number that you can use for pensions, direct debits, etc. but they often charge high fees.”

While the situation is far from ideal, the gap in the market currently being created has been seen as an opportunity for newer banking businesses. In

recent years a number of online-only banks have emerged which offer both UK/GBP and EU/EUR accounts and IBANs. The downside for many is that the vast majority are relatively new and hitherto unknown, leading to a natural degree of distrust, and only available via a website and app with no physical branches for in person contact.

“These are new challengers on the banking scene and the advantage for Brits living in France is that you can set up both a Pounds Sterling and a Euro account and you will get both a GB sort code/IBAN – which will allow you to set up direct debits or receive a UK pension – and an EU account number and IBAN, usually through Belgium”, Ryan Frost explained. “It means you can use the account for business in the UK, but also transfer money quickly and easily to/from France. In fact for UK pensioners this might give them a better deal on exchange rates than receiving a pension into a UK account in pounds and then spending in euros in France.” ■

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Fines issued after boar chases campers up tree A pair of Belgian tourists were forced to spend a night up a tree to escape an angry boar last month, before eventually being rescued the next day by emergency services... and promptly handed with a fine. The camping trip from hell began when the two 25-year-olds were attacked by a wild boar at the base they had set up between the towns of Castellane and Rougon in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department.

Escaping up a nearby tree when the sanglier attacked, the pair were able to phone for help, despite witnesses later saying, “There were no branches on the tree; they had to grip onto it as much as they could before reaching the top.”

When a team of gendarmes eventually arrived, the campers' story was confirmed: the boar was not only still present, but also still angry! As more people arrived, the animal was eventually convinced to go about his business and the frightened duo were able to descend and collect two €135 fines: one for illegal camping and the other for illegally setting a fire.

While le camping sauvage is technically legal in France, it is highly regulated and there are a number of rules that campers should follow such as bans on pitching camp on the coast, in a protected nature reserve or near historic monuments. While the fines may seem harsh, the pair actually got away relatively lightly, as the maximum fine for such an offence is €1,500. ■

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74-year-old woman is in intensive care after being declared dead and then waking up in a body bag. The drama began as Jean Sellier, a retied inhabitant of Mably in the Loire department, was taking his usual cycle ride along the banks of the Roanne canal when he spotted a body floating face down in the water.

As a former police lifeguard, Jean did not hesitate to dive into the water and bring the body to the shore. With the help of other passersby, he was then able to drag the woman up onto the towpath and begin to administer CPR while the emergency services were called.

Ten minutes later, the SAMU arrived and continued CPR for a further 30 minutes, to no avail. The body was then placed in the ambulance and the formalities of death began. “She was unconscious on our arrival and we performed heart massage for half an hour,” a paramedic on the scene would later explain. “The victim was declared dead and we filled out a death certificate. But while we were in discussions with the local funeral director, the bag began to move!” “Never have I seen a heart starting to function again after such an intervention,” said Mr Sellier.

The woman was rushed to the intensive care unit of Roanne hospital where she was placed in an induced coma but remains in a critical condition.

How the woman came to be in the canal remains a mystery, although there are fears she may have known what she was doing. A resident of the Bonvert nursing home 200 metres away from the canal, her gilet, walking stick and sunglasses had been neatly placed beside the canal, suggesting she may have entered the water voluntarily.

An investigation is underway as to how she was able to leave the home undetected. ■

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f there is one time you could be forgiven for driving too fast, it would be while rushing your pregnant wife to hospital. This nightmare scenario for expectant parents happened in the Dordogne not once, but twice in a week recently, and on both occasions rather than being fined, the speeding drivers were given an escort to the hospital.

The first instance occurred when Jérôme Giron's wife went into labour just before 5 am on 7th July. After rushing his two children to preschool garderie, Jérôme headed with his wife towards the maternity ward at Bergerac. “I was being careful, but I wasn't paying too much attention to my speed,” Jérôme would later confess. “While driving I was also trying to help my wife through her contractions.”

Arriving at Bourg d’Abren on the D32, he soon found himself being pulled over by two gendarmes on motorbikes who had flashed him going at 113 km/h in an 80 zone. “I stopped, wound down my window and explained that my wife was in labour. They were really understanding and helped us get to the hospital.”

At eight o'clock in the morning and with traffic building, the two gendarmes used their lights and sirens to clear traffic and escort the parents to

the hospital, where the nervous wait began. “I explained to the gendarmes that we were stuck between two names for our son, so I asked them what theirs were... Vincent and Xavier. Then one of them said that he had a son called Marius which brought tears to my eyes as that was one of the two names we had in mind. The decision was made.”

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No sooner had they arrived at Périgueux hospital than her waters broke in the passenger seat, just as a midwife rushed outside. “My husband had just about enough time to park and look for a midwife before my waters broke and five minutes later I had my baby in my arms!”

A few days later, the young couple took their daughter to the barracks in Périgueux to introduce her to the gendarmes who had ensured she was not born at the side of the road. “They even had a little present for her.” ■

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rexit was back in the headlines in July when large parts of Kent were brought to a standstill and thousands of families faced nightmare conditions while trying to cross the Channel for their summer holidays. The British government blamed the French, the French blamed Brexit and Eurotunnel failures, and Eurotunnel said it was nothing to do with them.

So what are the new rules when crossing the Channel, were the recent problems a one-off perfect storm of smaller issues and how much of the mess is actually down to Brexit?

When British schools broke up for the summer, thousands of families set off for their long-awaited summer holidays after two years of lockdowns, travel restrictions and last-minute cancellations. As the usual wave of cars headed for the port of Dover, authorities issued the following warning: “Please be aware that there is heavy traffic at border control. If you're booked to travel today please allow at least three to four hours to clear the approach roads and security checks.

Rest assured, if you miss your crossing, you'll be on the next one available once at check-in.”

What followed were scenes of endless miles of traffic, held in sweltering conditions, with reported waits of twelve hours and distressing stories of families with medical needs and no information.

The crisis began when French border agents were apparently unable to cross into Dover due to a technical fault on the train due

to take them to work. This delay, combined with a separate staff shortage issue, meant that at the beginning of one of the busiest days of the year, only six of the possible nine French border checkpoints were open, causing a huge tailback. Although the remaining points opened later in the day, the damage had been done and it took several days to clear the backlog.

So it was all the fault of the French, then? Yes and no. The port of Dover and the Eurotunnel terminal at Folkestone were both designed in an era of essentially frictionless travel and are not equipped to cope with vigorous border controls. This problem had been predicted several years ago as the reality of a hard Brexit became apparent, but little has been done to mitigate it.

The port of Dover put forward a £33 million proposal in 2020 to double the number of French passport control booths from five to ten in anticipation of lengthier checks linked to Brexit. The British government turned down the request, however, instead giving the country's busiest port just £33,000 for unrelated work.

In anticipation of the recent problems, Dover did independently install three extra passport checking booths in June as well as converting an old French police checkpoint for freight checks to avoid lorry queues. So while France did only staff six booths at the start of the day, this is still one more than has typically been available in previous years.

As the chaotic scenes unfolded, supporters of the British govern-

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ment hit the airwaves to lay the blame firmly at the feet of the French, claiming that Britain was never part of Schengen, so border checks are nothing new and the whole crisis has been manufactured by the EU to punish the UK for leaving. It is true that you have always been required to show your passport when entering the EU, so maybe they had a point?

Again, yes and no. Under the Schengen Agreement, citizens of one country can travel to another without needing to show a passport and the UK has indeed never been part of the area. As a member of the EU, however, Brits did still have the right to freedom of movement throughout the bloc, so you could travel within the EU as often and for as long as you wanted and border checks were often cursory.

After opting for a hard Brexit, however, Britain has become a “third country”, similar to Australia or America, meaning that

travellers can only spend 90 days out of every 180 in the EU. This means that passports need to be physically stamped when entering or leaving the EU, with dates of entry and exit checked to prevent “overstay”. Previously, at times of high traffic, cars would often be waved through passport control as you simply held up your passport; this is no longer possible.

Unfortunately for British tourists, French border guards have no option but to perform these checks under EU security regulations; the British government were in fact supporters of these rules when they were established in the past.

Queues at the major exit points are not uncommon during peak summer travel, but the new requirements have led to the average time required to process a vehicle almost doubling from 48 seconds to 90, leading to inevitable delays.

In conclusion, it is possibly unhelpful to say that “Brexit is to

blame”, but it is very hard to deny that the recent border problems are “a consequence of Britain's decision to leave the EU”. This is certainly the opinion of French politicians who reacted angrily to accusations of deliberately causing the problems. Responding to a Telegraph article headlined “Liz Truss tells France to fix holiday travel chaos”, Transport Minister Clément Beaune tweeted “the French authorities are working to check our borders and facilitate the passing of traffic as much as possible. I have discussed this with my counterpart Grant Shapps, but France is not responsible for Brexit.”

Less sympathetic observers have also quoted arch-remainer James O'Brian, who said on his LBC talk show: “If half a dozen Frenchmen turning up late for work can bring the country to a standstill, how much control have we really taken back?” ■

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he recent wildfires that tore through forests near Arcachon forced the closure of the famous Dune du Pilat and the evacuation of campsites across the area. It was not only people that were in danger of the fire and smoke, however, as hundreds of animals at the Teste-de-Buch Zoo also found themselves in the path of the devastation, but with fewer options to escape.

Fortunately, the country's zoos mobilised to rescue the animals, a number of which are now living in both the Dordogne and Haute-Vienne, namely at the Parc du Reynou in Limoges and Calviac Zoo, just outside Sarlat-la-Canéda.

After the animals were initially moved north to Bordeaux Zoo, other institutions across the country were then asked to take as many as they could, an appeal that Em-

manuel Mouton, director of the Calviac-enPérigord Zoo, did not hesitate to answer.

“We sent all the crates and cages that we had in stock. We took all the animals that we could including crowned pigeons, kamichis, ducks, a female margay wildcat and a number of wallabies.”

Parc du Reynou also took a number of animals including a pair of red pandas, a pair of civets, a raccoon and two soldier lapwings, which had actually been born at Reynou before being sent to the Arcachon bassin zoo a few months ago.

Sadly a number of animals died during the evacuation, mostly primates and parrots which succumbed to the heat and stress. It is hoped that the vast majority of animals removed will be able to one day return to the popular zoo on the south-west coast. ■

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here was shock and sadness last month as the public followed the plight of a confused killer whale that made its way inland up the Seine river before finally dying. This sadness has now been replaced by anger after it was revealed that the orca had been shot in the head before it died.

As reported in last month's edition of The Bugle, the animal was believed to have been suffering from mucormycosis, a disease that attacks the skin of the animal before spreading to the heart, lungs and brain.

An autopsy later confirmed this diagnosis, but also revealed a bullet lodged in the orca's head. The shot, fired several weeks prior to its death, is not believed to have been fatal; the official cause of death was starvation as a result of the advanced mucormycosis.

Following the news, Sea Shepherd France – a notfor-profit NGO dedicated to protecting the oceans – has filed a complaint against

“Person X” and offered a €10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction. The group say that gunshot wounds on protected species are common and a direct consequence of the increasing scarcity of natural fishing grounds, which has forced these animals to venture in highly fished seas, bringing them into closer contact with boats.

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practices at sea that are far from isolated. On a regular basis, cetaceans are shot at by fishermen because they approach the fish in their nets. This happens very often in the Arctic or in the Strait of Gibraltar.”

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In addition to the ban on curious visitors, a CCTV camera has been installed to watch over the site as well as thermal monitors to ensure that the temperature inside the nest remains between 24 and 34 degrees. Should the temperature drop below this, the eggs will be moved to ensure their survival.

Although the loggerhead turtle is a protected species, they are common to the Mediterranean. They can grow up to one metre long and weigh as much as 170kg, but it is very rare for them to be spotted laying their eggs on French beaches. It is far more common for females to build nests in the typically warmer central and eastern areas of the Mediterranean such as Greece, Tunisia, or Italy. Although global warming may be a factor, that the turtle in question has chosen Valras could suggest that

tourist taking a midnight stroll on the beach in the Mediterranean town of Valras made a surprising discovery when they stumbled across a loggerhead turtle laying its eggs in the sand.

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“We have asked the mairie not to allow fire engines or any other vehicles onto the beach, so as not to cause vibrations in the nest, which would interrupt the development of the eggs,” said Cindy Capdet, manager at Mediterranean sea turtle care centre CESTMed. “This is an urban beach. We have created a perimeter 50 metres around the nest, and banned people from going in,” confirmed Olivier Sébastien, director of technical services at Valras beach, speaking to BFMTV. “For two months,

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“The turtle was probably born on this same beach 20 or 30 years ago, because turtles come to lay eggs where they were born,” explained Cindy Capdet. “It’s the first time we’ve found a nest at this spot, but that doesn’t mean that turtles, which are common in the Mediterranean, never come here. What is rare is being present for the lay-

ing and to be able to protect the nest. If no one had been passing the spot at that exact moment, the turtle would have left without anyone realising that there was a nest under the sand.”

When the baby turtles hatch after two months' incubation and make the treacherous journey down the beach and into the sea, they will not be the first to have done so in

recent years. In 2018, more than 60 baby loggerhead turtles hatched on another beach in the Hérault department, and were only noticed by a passerby when they saw a baby turtle on the sand. Specialists arrived on the beach soon after to inspect the nests, and opened a small channel in the sand to allow the babies to get back to the water as quickly as possible. ■

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combination of COVID lockdowns and the recent heatwaves has led to a boom in a relatively new sector of the leisure economy: private garden rentals. Over the course of the last few years families have been forced to spend months on end in often cramped houses and apartments, and many city dwellers longed for nothing more than fresh air, green grass and most crucially, a swimming pool.

This led to significant migration from the country's bigger cities towards the countryside or wealthier families investing in rural second homes in which they could live and work from home in any future lockdowns. Where this is not a possible or practical option, briefly renting someone else's garden has become increasingly common.

As a result, people with large gardens and rarely used pools on the outskirts of cities have found that they can make significant sums of money renting out these spaces by the hour or afternoon. Initially, these private rentals proved popular for birthdays or family parties, but this year’s heatwave has brought about a renewed interest from those simply looking to cool down.

Speaking to Le Journal du Dimanche, Sylvie Medjber explained how her garden in Nantes has helped her to earn over €3,000 in the last year alone. Modest by rural standards, the 1,500 m² garden features a large terrace and a 17-metrelong pool. “During a heatwave, I get a lot of requests. People in the city can suffocate a bit.

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of the websites offering garden spaces for rent has moved from generating the demand to finding enough supply. “We have more requests than offers. Our big challenge now is to recruit owners,” explained Sarah Jamy, communications director of Swimmy.fr, a website that specialises in the rental of private pools. “Summer has started very strongly. As soon as Météo France

announces a heat spike, our activity rises.”

Other websites offering a similar service include WePeps, MyPrivatePool, Louer une piscine and Kiwiiz, which all operate on the same principle that has made short-term rental website Airbnb such a success.

Rather than renting by the night, however, private gardens are rented by the hour or afternoon, with prices typically av-

eraging around €30 per person for a half day.

With well over three million above and inground pools, France has the highest number of private swimming pools outside of the US. Furthermore, having your own pool is no longer the preserve of the rich and famous: a recent study showed that one quarter are owned by manual labourers, farmers and regular employees. ■

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Mysterious fish deaths after Dordogne storms As the Dordogne begins to rebuild itself from the devastation caused by the June hailstorm, a new consequence has emerged... thousands of dead fish in one of the department's rivers. Surveying the river from the Rizonne bridge at Saint-VincentJalmoutiers, agents from the Office français de la biodiversité (OFB) recently “noted the presence of chub, roach, eel or even perch floating on the surface of blackish water, and causing a nauseating stink,” reported the town's mayor, Robert Denost.

According to OFB agents, the death of the fish is due to a natural phenomenon well known to scientists and was directly linked to the recent hailstorms. When a significant amount of vegetation is stripped from trees and bushes during a storm, much of this can end up being washed into nearby rivers. This organic matter then decays, causing “an explosion of aquatic bacterial life” and, by extension, “a very significant deficit in the oxygen which is so vital for the life of aquatic fauna”, explained the mayor, quoting the OFB report. ■

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ewly appointed Energy Transition Minister Agnès PannierRunacher will issue a new decree requiring all shops with air conditioning to keep their doors closed and to turn off illuminated advertising at night. The move is the latest in the country's battle to reduce its overall energy consumption by 10% within two years.

It is currently not uncommon for shops to have their doors wide open to encourage customers while simultaneously running air con in summer, or heating in winter. “This leads to 20 per cent more consumption... it's absurd,” the minister said while announcing the changes. “In the coming days, I will issue two decrees: the first will widen the ban on illuminated advertising, whatever the size of the city, between 1 am and 6 am. The second will ban shops from having their doors open while the air conditioning and heating are operating.”

Although the government has announced that there will be a grace period to allow for “education” of staff, businesses that fail to comply with the closed-doors policy will be fined €750 per infraction. The nighttime ban on illuminated advertising will be enforced with a €1,500 penalty.

France produces 70% of its energy from nuclear power plants and has relatively cheap electricity when compared to its

European counterparts. Campaign groups have said this has made many take their energy consumption for granted. The recent global spike in energy prices has forced many to consider their electricity use much more seriously.

“We have lived for decades with this promise of abundant energy, and have completely lost sight of the reality of our energy consumption,” explained Yves Marignac of the négaWatt think tank, which recommends ways to reduce energy consumption. “Closing the doors of airconditioned commercial premises is obviously common sense. When a government has to remind us of this, it shows how far down the cheap, harmless energy route we have travelled.”

Critics have in the past accused the government of being quick to announce headline-grabbing energy-saving policies, but being slow to actually enforce them.

Agnès Pannier-Runacher admitted that a ban on backlit advertising has been in force for some time for cities with a population less than 800,000, but that making the changes universal would “harmonise the rules”.

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U-turn on motorbike CTs

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otorcycling groups are celebrating news that the government has reversed a decree to require all two-wheeled vehicles above 125cc to go through regular Contrôle Technique (CT) checks as is currently the case for cars.

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That declaration resulted in several environmental groups taking their case to the country's highest court, the Conseil d’État asking for CTs on two-wheeled vehicles to be implemented “as soon as possible”, highlighting the positive impact that this could have on noise and exhaust emissions. The Conseil d’État then ruled that the changes must be brought in on 1st October this year, leading the government to pass a second decree, effectively cancelling the first.

While motorbike groups are celebrating, the government does look certain to introduce alternative legislation to enforce noise and emissions tests on two-wheeled vehicles – a promise made by former Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari late last year – but which may prove to be less stringent than the full CT. This has led to accusations that the government has capitulated to the “motorbike lobby”. ■

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In a major shake-up of the industry, the red stamp will be replaced by a new, online “e-lettre rouge” option which will cost €1.49 compared to the current red stamp price of €1.43. The electronic option will require customers to upload a document of up to three pages via the La Poste website before 8 pm, which will then be printed as close as possible to the destination and delivered the next day. Although the price is slightly higher, it will

include the cost of printing, the paper and the envelope.

For customers who do not have access to a mobile app or digital services, La Poste says it will be possible to send a red e-letter from a post office branch.

According to figures released by La Poste, the number of priority timbre rouge letters sent has fallen by a factor of 14 since 2008, and last year the next day letters represented just 300 million of the seven billion items it distributed.

This has resulted in planes and trucks racing between delivery hubs with part, or even half loads, significantly raising the environmental impact of the service as a whole.

“Today we have three air routes that consume 20 tonnes of kerosene, as well as 300 road routes between distribution hubs” La Poste said in a statement. With the recently

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As communication moves increasingly online, La Poste has been undergoing something of an existential crisis in recent years as fewer and fewer people use it for its core purpose of sending letters. In 2020, letters made up just 17% of the group's turnover. The recent lockdowns, however, have

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La Poste has plans to become a key player in logistics, and has a stated ambition to establish itself as “the top European platform for linking things up”. ■

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St Emilion au chocolat

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igh summer, and the weight of the heat bears down in the kitchen - and the duty of the continuous provision of meals for hungry holiday-making guests and family. Oh, for a break! To dip in the pool or river without a care for what will be put on the table at lunch or at supper.

What we need at this time of year is food that is quick to prepare. Of course, the markets are filled with easy solutions: plump tomatoes ready to burst their juicy seams, crisp salad leaves, endless piles of strawberries that only cry out for a dribble of cream or a sprinkle of sugar. It’s not hard to put together a mouthwatering plate of vegetables, a roast chicken, a grilled fish. But at the back of the mind is a thought that says, What can we have that is even more celebratory but easy to make so I can retire to somewhere cool with a book for the afternoon yet impress the table?

Let me propose the St Emilion au chocolat. It’s a cross between a petit pot de chocolat and a chocolate mousse and a blast from the past, first introduced to the British by Elizabeth David’s seminal 1950s cookbook, French Country Cooking. This was the book that taught so many post-war British wives how to cook at a time when olive oil’s only source was the chemist, where it was sold as a cure for earache, and those who had not travelled abroad had never met an aubergine, an artichoke, and so much more.

A different view of the St Emilion’s origins has it that it was George Perry-Smith, whose restaurant, The Hole in the Wall in Bath, launched a culinary revolution in the 1950s. It’s said he discovered a recipe for it on a box of matches while travelling around France. He brought the recipe back and put it straight on his menu. Lovely image. I suspect it’s more likely, however, that Elizabeth David’s publishers sent him an advance copy for a quote or review. Variations have since been developed by other chefs, some of whom add a dash of coffee.

You probably already know the importance of using a chocolate with a high cocoa butter content but you may not know why. Not so long ago, most bittersweet and semisweet chocolates available to home cooks contained less than 60 per cent cacao, and recipes were developed accordingly. Now that supermarkets sell bars with a wide range from 50 per cent to over 70 per cent cacao, recipes have altered to specify what should be used for what. The higher the cacao percentage, the lower the chocolate’s sugar content.

Get the percentage wrong and your cake, for example, might become dry and crumbly and taste bitter, or your chocolate sauces split and curdle, so it’s important to use what you’re told.

On the plus side, as well as tasting more intensely chocolate-y, 70 per cent dark chocolate contains higher antioxidants, fibre, potassium, calcium, copper, and magnesium, so feel free to consider it a health food and have a cube a day, as some in the medical profession recommend.

Because it’s so rich, this recipe will serve around 8 ■ Julia Watson has been a long-time Food Writer for newspapers and magazines in the US and the UK. She writes 'Tabled', a weekly food blog at juliawatson.substack.com

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The wines of Bergerac - Terre Vieille

t is always a pleasure to visit the vineyard of Terre Vieille on the wooded plateau of the Pécharmant. The house and gardens are charming, the ancient pigeon towers are magnificent and if you don’t see the sign warning drivers that the chickens roam free, large and painted wooden silhouettes of cockerels will remind you. The tasting room contains an impressive collection of prehistoric stone and flint tools, hand axes, blades and scrapers, all found on the property.

They have started an interesting new sideline in picnic lunches. For thirty euros you get a large wooden box with bottles of water, bread, pâtés, cheeses, fruit and salad, a feast for two, along with a glass of wine per head. There are tables and chairs scattered among the trees and they serve until they run out of fresh bread.

There is also a great deal of more modern history here. The eight hectares of wine terrain around the house are known as Grateloup, an ancient term for a place where wolves liked to frolic. It was the home of the somewhat abstruse philosopher Maine de Biran, whose thought progressed from Locke’s focus on the senses and reason to theosophical mysticism and ended up back in the bosom of the Catholic Church. As a young man he was a member of the Royal Guard in 1789, when King Louis XVI was hauled back from Versailles after the Revolution. He became a politician, was expelled from the Council of 500 for his royalist sympathies but took his revenge in 1813 when he helped launch the constitutional coup that eventually toppled Napoleon. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1815, he became Treasurer to the Chamber of Deputies.

Terre Vieille has always made a firstrate Pécharmant but I was interested in

by Martin Walker another wine they make, called X Vin, the X being the Roman numeral for Dix, and is thus pronounced divin. Very cute. But it is an excellent wine and an IGP rather than made under the stricter rules of the Appellation Contrôlée system. It is lighter, for easier and casual drinking, but a serious wine nonetheless. They make a lovely crisp and intriguing rosé, at 9.50 euros a bottle and a very agreeable red for 10.40.

They offer three versions of Pécharmant. The first, one-third each of Merlot, Cabernet France and Cabernet Sauvignon and vinified without time in a barrel is called Chevalier, at 12 euros a bottle. The Château Terre Vieille spends 20 months one barrel of wine without sulfites, knowin the barrel, and the 2018 is 16 euros a ing that climate change will force some bottle, the 2015 is 19 euros. I thought the changes in the way his wines are made.

2018, only just going on sale, is excel“Merlot used to be the easy grape to lent, rich and velvety but with that steely grow, but that’s changing with the climate backbone that is the hallmark of a good and it will need more care, and Cabernet Pécharmant, drawing its character from will be the easy grape,” he says. the flinty soil and that unique, deep layer Unlike most of the new generation of of mineral-rich clay known as tran. winemakers Pierre had not gone to one of They also offer a very special wine, the specialised wine high schools like La made only in excellent years, called Brie, just south of Monbazillac, nor to a l’Ambroisie and the 2015 costs 41 euros. university with special wine schools like There is also a good value tasting box of Bordeaux. He studied law and commerce six bottles for 88 euros. It contains one instead, and worked for some years for a of the XVin, two of the Chevalier and a Champagne house in northern France and Pécharmant from each of the years from also spent a year in California working in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Napa Valley at the well-known vineyard I was also interested to meet Pierre of Paul Hobbs.

Monteil, who now runs the vineyard. He Pierre began taking over from his fais the son of Gérôme Monteil, founder of ther at Terre Vieille some five years ago, Terre Vieille, who with his wife Dolores just as the grim years of successive frosts began making wine here thirty years ago and hailstorms began battering the region. while raising their family.

Ironically, the same had happened to his Pierre is a slim, energetic man, who father, whose first year of harvest in 1991 knows every inch of the Grateloup section was wiped out by bad weather. The crop and of their other seven hectares close to this year so far looks reasonable but the the village of Saint-Sauveur. He is exlong sécheresse of a hot summer with litperimenting cautiously with new ideas, tle rain is worrying. planting some Chenin grapes and making “My father always told me that wine

was not made in the chai, but in the terroir, and there are variations between heavier and lighter soils, and between those areas that get some shade,” Pierre told me. “The vines themselves are just part of an ecosystem that includes our soils, our hedges and woodlands and wildlife.”

Pierre is interested in the way that some southern European and Georgian vineyards plant olive and other trees among the vines to offer some shade, a tradition that dates back to Roman times. And in this year of heatwaves, it was sobering to learn that some vineyards in the Aude, around Limoux and Carcassonne, have already started to pick their grapes, almost unheard of in July. The times are indeed a-changing. ■ Martin Walker, author of the best-selling ‘Bruno, chief of police’ novels, is a Grand Consul de la Vinée de Bergerac.

Formerly a journalist, he spent 25 years as foreign correspondent for The Guardian and then became editor-in-chief of United Press International. He and his wife Julia have had a home in the Périgord since 1999 and one of his great hobbies is visiting the vineyards of Bergerac.

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time to consider speaking with a Financial Advisor. Inflation continues to increase and leaving funds in cash earning little or no interest makes no financial sense.

Here at Blacktower Financial Management we have products available from leading providers such as Prudential International and Utmost Wealth, providing tax efficient solutions for French residents with minimum investments from £20,000. You can also keep your savings in

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should not be construed as, investment advice, investment recommendations or investment research. You should seek advice from a professional adviser before embarking on any financial planning activity. still rely on their UK accounts to receive pension income, pay for flights, send money to friends and family for special occasions or to pay standing orders and direct debits. For many it’s an inconvenience, for others it will create a lot of concern as to what options they may have going forward.

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For those with a significant balance, now might be the

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ack in 2020 we wrote some articles covering the possibilities of some UK Financial Institutions closing the accounts of clients that live in the EU. Some said this was scaremongering, others agreed with us and some just buried their heads in the sand.

As time has moved on, it is certainly apparent that some UK Financial Service providers have taken action, making undertaking financial transactions difficult.

We have, over the last 18 months or so, had many UK Financial Advisory companies advise their clients that they could no longer maintain their relationship and to make alternative arrangements.

To add to this growing list of companies advising their EU resident clients that they can no longer maintain a relationship is

Barclays UK. We have received a stream of enquiries asking for assistance as those clients, where Barclays considers that the client is not residing in the UK, have received notification that their account will be closed on 24th November 2022.

This has come as a major shock to many, as from my experience Barclays is a widely used bank for us here, and for many it’s their last remaining financial connection to the UK. Many

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Les petits jardiniers du Limousin

We are a gardening association based in the Mairie at St. Amand le Petit, between Eymoutiers and Peyrat le Château.

We hold monthly meetings on the third Thursday of the month, starting at 2.30 pm. Meetings are held in English, but we can also present topics in French. We have lots of different nationalities amongst our members. Our aim is to provide and promote opportunities for people to develop their interest and knowledge in horticulture and gardening and related topics in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. In-house workshop meetings, external speakers and visits are on our agenda.

During Covid-19, we were not been able to have meetings and kept in touch with members and friends via Facebook.

This has become a very popular feature so do have a look at our Facebook page, "Les petits jardiniers du Limousin", where people post photos of their garden, ask questions, share information and keep in contact on a casual, friendly basis.

Our meeting agenda remains subject to any Covid-19 regulations and restrictions in place at that time:

18 Aug 04 Sep 20 Oct

Car rally followed by lunch Annual Show AGM followed by 'House Plants'

24 Nov 08 Dec

Upcycling in the Garden Christmas Party

Lucky This is Lucky and he is a 6-year-old Griffon/Bouvier cross.

He has only recently arrived at the shelter after being surrendered by his mistress who could no longer give him the life he needed.

He is a very nice boy indeed, a little lost at the moment but slowly getting used to his new surroundings. Lucky is intelligent, knows how to sit and is always eager to give his paw, he also walks quite nicely on the lead. He loves his treats which is a big help with training and appears to be okay with other dogs and has had experience of children and a cat in his previous life.

Given time and love, Lucky will make someone a very nice companion indeed, he just needs to live up to his name and find his forever home.

Members and supporters of our Association will receive emails about forthcoming meetings. If you would like to be on our mailing list then please email me with your name and email address. I shall be very happy to add you to the list and you will receive all future notifications. In the meantime... happy gardening.

For any further information contact Carolyn at pjlimousin@gmail.com

If you think you can help Lucky then please contact: SPA de Creuse (Guéret), 21 Le Clocher, 23000 Saint-Sulpice-le Guérétois www.spa-creuse.com - email: spa.gueret@orange.fr

Peyrat Film Club The CINEMA in Peyrat-le-Château, run by the volunteers of the Association Bande Originale, regularly shows VOST films (original version with French subtitles), especially for all the non-French speakers in our region.

Indoor Short Mat Bowls If you're a beginner or seasoned player come and join in with a friendly club where you'll get a warm welcome.

Wednesdays 19:45 Thursdays 9:45

The cinema will be closed for essential work in June, July and August.

Watch this space for details of September's screenings.

Tickets from just €3.50!!

See our website for dates & times, etc. - http://bandeoriginale.jimdo.com

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at Cussac gymnasium Please call Peter on 05 55 78 66 45 for more info, email cussacbowlsclub@gmail.com or come along to one of our meetings.

Bowls available for newcomers/visitors

Boussac Brocante A fantastic day was experienced by all at the Boussac Brocante garden party on Sunday 17th July. In the dappled shade of the garden, our French, Dutch and English supporters enjoyed freshly brewed tea and coffee, sandwiches, scones with homemade jam and cream and a selection of delicious home-made cupcakes. Thank you to everyone who came to support us and to all the volunteers at the Boussac Brocante Association. We raised 447€ on the day through ticket sales, cupcake sales and sales from the Brocante itself.

In fact, the afternoon was so popular that we have decided to continue this tradition on a somewhat smaller scale, offering coffee and cake on Thursday mornings, to coincide with openair market day. We will be serving drinks and cakes between 10 am and noon every Thursday.

As always, all proceeds are donated to help distressed, abused, abandoned, lost and injured animals in need.

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Guided visit of the church - Les Billanges Saturday 6th August, 2:30 pm

Bernadette and Philippe, the two guides belonging to the Association de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine - Les Billanges, are offering visitors the chance to take a historic pause on “the Way of Saint-James” and visit the Norman style fortified church of Les Billanges on Saturday 6th August.

They will be delighted to welcome you to lead you back to the Middle Ages when the church was being built and tell you in English and French the legend of Saint Sebastian represented in many churches of the area.

You will be enchanted by its guard turrets, testimonies of the 16th century religious wars. You will know why two reliquaries from the Abbey of Grandmont, dating from the 13th century, were given to the parish of Les Billanges in 1790 and more…

Free guided visit - Donations in favour of the restoration of the church are welcome!

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The Bugle Film Club Thursday 11th August

FREE WINE TASTINGS ACROSS THE SUMMER Meet the region's best wine producers in person and sample their finest wines BRANTOME 05/08 - Château le Payral (Bergerac) 11/08 - Domaine des Costes (Pécharmant) 12/08 - Château Haut Bernasse (Bergerac) 19/08 - Château des Eyssards (Bergerac)

What? Thor: Love and Thunder Where? Cinéma Sénéchal, 1 rue du Sénéchal, 23000 Guéret When? 18h30, Thursday 11th August How much? JUST €5

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LE BUGUE 05/08 - Château Thénac (Bergerac) 09/08 - Domaine des Costes (Pécharmant) 12/08 - Château des Eyssards (Bergerac) 16/08 - Château Tirecul la Gravière (Bergerac) 18/08 - Château du Cèdre (Cahors) 19/08 - Château la Jaubertie (Bergerac) 23/08 - Château de Tiregand (Pécharmant) 26/08 - Château Monestier la Tour (Bergerac)

PERIGUEUX 03/08 - Domaine des Costes (Pécharmant) 10/08 - Clos du Breil (Bergerac) 17/08 - Château des Eyssards (Bergerac) 20/08 - Château Bélingard (Bergerac) 24/08 - Château de Tiregand (Pécharmant) SARLAT 03/08 - Château Haut Bernasse (Bergerac) 05/08 - Domaine des Costes (Pécharmant) 12/08 - Château des Eyssards (Bergerac) 17/08 - Château de Tiregand (Pécharmant) 19/08 - Château du Cèdre (Cahors)

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