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New tough tax rules apply on holiday rentals from 2025
Short-term holiday lets are the target of a new law
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Is France’s Canal du Midi doomed to lose its famous trees?
Over 30,000 trees along the route have been felled
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Chance to spend a night as a ‘lighthouse keeper’ on Brittany island
This renovated lighthouse keeper’s cottage provides an unusual weekend stay option
Anti-drone eagle attacks five-year-old
Air force chiefs are rethinking their use of golden eagles to stop possible drone attacks on security sites after one eagle attacked a girl at a picnic in the Pyrénées and clawed her back.
The bird can down drones quickly in a terror attack but dived on the five-year-old, who had a top tied round her waist, as she played with other children at col d’Osquich.