The Bugle Dordogne - October 2018

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Rick Stein films new show in Périgueux Celebrity chef Rick Stein has been in the Dordogne for four days, filming an episode of his new BBC show >> Page 3

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EU plans to ditch daylight saving Virtual GP consultations now fully reimbursed - page 6

The EU has announced plans to phase out daylight saving after a huge survey revealed 80% support for the change, which would see the EU stay on summer time year round.

and 2.94 per cent of the national population took part respectively. The UK’s response was lowest at just 0.02 per cent. “The changing of the clocks will be scrapped,” Juncker told German news channel ZDF, adding that the idea would be to keep the whole of Europe on “summer time” all year round, which in the case of France would be two hours ahead of GMT. “The people want it, so we will do it. Millions of people have responded and are of the opinion that in the future it is summer time that should be in place all the time, and we will achieve that.” The Commission has

New tax for black bag bin collections - pg 4

Half of all olive oil found to be fake - pg 7

Bilingual - Golf and the Ryder Cup - pg 16

The Bugle Business Directory - pg 17-20

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ollowing the results of a huge Europewide survey, the president of the EU Commission has announced his plan to abolish the changing of the clocks. Six months after the European parliament approved stopping the widely unpopular practice, JeanClaude Juncker has now backed the move after 84% of those surveyed said they would prefer not to move the clocks back at the end of October. More than four and a half million people took part in the online survey, but by far the biggest response came from Germany and Austria, where 3.79 per cent

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