officials of Poitou-Charentes region, France

Victorian architects designed this divisional magistrates' court and police station in suitably oppressive Gothic style. The officials swept in up a stately staircase to the vaulted 40ft courtroom, while the prisoners emerged up the stone stairway from a trap door in the hall to hear their fate. The chamber is now a ...

But this is also unlikely to happen with Llewellyn making it clear that "this is a matter for the French authorities" as is true of many of the issues raised ... The embassy meetings have so far been held in Nice, St Raphael (Var), Brittany and another is due to take place in Poitou Charentes on December 11th.

The price of butter rose 60% in a year, reaching €6.70 (£5.97) per kilogram in August, according to official data. ... Claude Margerin Francois, who runs a small company specialising in pastry dough in central France and has been buying Poitou-Charentes butter from a local producer for 15 years, told The ...

The price of butter rose 60% in a year, reaching €6.70 (£5.97) per kilogram in August, according to official data. ... Claude Margerin Francois, who runs a small company specialising in pastry dough in central France and has been buying Poitou-Charentes butter from a local producer for 15 years, told The ...

The price of butter has risen 60 percent in a year to reach 6.7 euros ($7.9) per kilogram in August, according to official data, creating problems for pastry ... Margerin Francois, who has been buying her top-shelf labeled Poitou-Charentes butter from a local producer for 15 years, said she had to furlough eight ...

The price of butter has risen 60 percent in a year to reach 6.7 euros ($7.9) per kilogram in August, according to official data, creating problems for pastry ... Margerin Francois, who has been buying her top-shelf labeled Poitou-Charentes butter from a local producer for 15 years, said she had to furlough eight ...

Nouvelle-Aquitaine was recently formed when the government redrew the administrative map of France, bringing together the old regions of Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes and Limousin. The super-region stretches from the Spanish border in the southwest up the Atlantic coast to La Rochelle and deep into ...

Team officials had said Farrar was mulling his future, and the 33-year-old's final race was the GP Montreal over the weekend. Farrar turned pro at 19 and joined Cofidis for the ... Farrar notched 29 pro wins, with the first one in 2008 at Tour Du Poitou Charentes. In 2009, he beat Cavendish for the first time in ...

Charente-Maritime in Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the preferred summer destination for French holidaymakers, new official figures for 2016 show. But while year-round visitor numbers for the department in the former Poitou-Charentes region were stable year on year, it was only the second most popular overall ...

The new administrative map was published on Thursday in the Journal Officiel, the bulletin giving details of laws and official announcements in France. The move ... and Picardie were baptised as Hauts-de-France, and Nouvelle Aquitaine came from a fusion of Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes.

Over ten thousand people have signed petitions after authorities cancelled the largest free festival in France, Roman Nights or Les Nuits Romanes. Roman Nights ... The festival saw shows each night between late June and early September across Poitou-Charentes, a region on the Atlantic coast of France.