Pollution - Local left-wing MP Patrick Allemand, has written to the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi requesting that ships docked in the port of Nice and Villefranche limit the sulfur content in their fuel adding that “the pollution of cruise ships is an important issue for the Côte d'Azur". In Cannes the city council imposed the limit in June for ships docked in the Old Port. France has decided to reduce the maximum quantity by 1.5 to 0.5% by next year.
Meteo France have placed the Var on a top-level red alert for forest fires today. Two other nearby departments, the Bouches-du-Rhone and the Vaucluse ...
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The Var department will be placed under red alert for wildfires on Wednesday the 16th of July, due to a "very high" risk, worsened by strong Mistral a...
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Commemorations took place yesterday in Nice to mark the anniversary of the attack in July 2016 in which 86 people lost their lives...
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French TV host and producer Thierry Ardisson has died in Paris at the age of 76 from liver cancer, his family announced. ...
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An administrative judge has suspended an order against large cruise ships in Villefranche-sur-mer and Nice. Nice Mayor and President of the Nice Cote ...
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