https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A 12-year-old French girl’s sweet tooth landed her in hot water with police on Thursday after it emerged she had stolen a neighbour’s chequebook to buy €2,600-worth of sweets and pastries from local bakeries. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130726/french-girl-uses-stolen-cheques-to-sate-sweet-tooth Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:20:00 +0200 french-girl-uses-stolen-cheques-to-sate-sweet-tooth A court in Brittany has handed a nursery assistant a suspended six-month prison sentence after a toddler ,aged two years and nine months, who was in her care choked to death on a sweet. The sweets were labelled for children over-3 only. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130705/life-ban-for-school-aide-after-boy-chokes-on-sweet Fri, 05 Jul 2013 17:53:00 +0200 life-ban-for-school-aide-after-boy-chokes-on-sweet