French and Riviera News Thursday 2nd November 2023

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Record winds recorded in northwestern France with the arrival of Storm Ciaran - According to Meteo France record winds have been recorded in the Finistère region with gusts of up to 193km/hr and the overnight arrival of Storm Ciaran which is making its way over from the South of England. One person has been slightly injured in Britanny after a falling tree caused a road accident and several towns in the Côtes-d'Armor are without electricity. 40 trees have fallen in the Morbihan. The Finistère, the Côtes-d'Armor and the Manche remain on a red alert due to high winds and the Morbihan is placed on an orange alert for wind, rain-flooding and high waves. Locally, as storm Ciaran makes its way across France the Bouches du Rhone, the Var and the Alpes-Maritimes regions have been placed on an orange weather warning from this afternoon due to high winds and flooding.

Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation - H.S.H Prince Albert II of Monaco has travelled to his mother’s hometown Philadelphia, to present his Foundation's prizes to the winners who are working for “planetary health”. It was an opportunity for Prince Albert to reunite with members of his family while attending the ceremony and congratulating the winner, young activist Dominique Palmer, a climate justice campaigner based in the UK. The pandemic, in recent years, had complicated the tradition of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (FPA2) and its annual awards ceremony being held in Monaco and abroad. Launched in 2006 by Prince Albert t