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FRANCE-FIRE

Huge fire rips through 5-star hotel in exclusive French ski resort

Fire rips through £11,000-a-night Grandes Alpes in Courchevel 1850

28 Jan 2026

France cancels key talks with UK after PM’s letter on migrant crisis

By Sarah Harvey Rachael Burford Peter Allen

26 Nov 2021

French fishermen block boats at St Malo as they launch Brexit protests

French fishermen block UK boats in post-Brexit protest

26 Nov 2021

Mayday call by coastguard emerges after 27 die in English Channel

By Elly Blake Peter Allen

25 Nov 2021

Migrants’ boat sank in Channel after ‘being hit by container ship’

Row breaks out between France and UK as dozens more migrants risk crossing

By Peter Allen Nicholas Cecil

25 Nov 2021

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

Britain too ‘attractive’ for illegal migrants, French minister claims

25 Nov 2021

Eviction Grande-Synthe

French police break up migrant camp near Dunkirk

16 Nov 2021

FRANCE-ATTACK-POLICE

Cannes: Knifeman shot after attacking police as terror probe launched

8 Nov 2021

Migrants in Calais

Migrant heading for UK is killed by train in Calais

5 Nov 2021

France denies seized British trawler has been released

By Peter Allen Rachael Burford David Bond

2 Nov 2021

France detains British trawler during fishing rights row

28 Oct 2021

Back down on fishing or we’ll blockade Calais, say the French

By Peter Allen Jonathan Prynn

9 Oct 2021

Eurostar passenger hauled off train ‘for wearing wrong type of mask’

8 Oct 2021

French investigators take fresh look at Alps murders

1 Oct 2021

Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi

French forces kill senior ISIS leader with a $5m price tag on his head

16 Sept 2021

Paris in high-security lockdown as Bataclan ‘bomber’ goes on trial

8 Sept 2021

Esther Dingley missing

Esther Dingley: Forensics scour spot where British hiker’s body found

11 Aug 2021

FRANCE-HEALTH-VIRUS-VACCINE-POLITICS-DEMO

Britons heading to France face problems with Covid passport

9 Aug 2021

Brits get free Covid tests in France … but must pay £575 on UK return

11 Jun 2021

FRANCE-POLICE-ASSAULT-INVESTIGATION

Suspect killed in shootout after knifeman stabs female police officer

Two gendarmes were injured in gunfire after knifeman took stabbed officer’s pistol in incident near La Chappelle-sur-Erdre, close to the western city of Nantes

28 May 2021

FILE PHOTO: Tighter measures against spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Paris

We want holiday Britons back in France by June, say tourist chiefs

By Nicholas Cecil Peter Allen

7 May 2021