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 Budget airline easyJet has announced the resumption of a London service from Toulouse, which was axed when the company closed its hub in the south-west France city. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250605/easyjet-to-resume-uk-toulouse-link Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:13:00 +0200 easyjet-to-resume-uk-toulouse-link Dozens of private hire drivers working for companies such as Uber and Bolt, are staging rolling blockades to call for higher wages. https://www.thelocal.fr/20241105/french-uber-drivers-stage-blockades-near-airport-in-wages-protest Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:26:19 +0100 french-uber-drivers-stage-blockades-near-airport-in-wages-protest Hard on the heels of Ryanair announcing it is leaving Bordeaux, the budget airline easyJet has said that it intends to close its 'hub' in another southern French airport. However, the impacts will be very different for passengers at the two airports. https://www.thelocal.fr/20240912/easyjet-announces-closure-of-south-west-france-hub Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:05:07 +0200 easyjet-announces-closure-of-south-west-france-hub France’s longest cable car was inaugurated on Friday May 13th , 86 years after it was first planned. https://www.thelocal.fr/20220513/its-not-in-the-alps-what-you-need-to-know-about-frances-newest-and-longest-cable-car Fri, 13 May 2022 15:09:30 +0200 its-not-in-the-alps-what-you-need-to-know-about-frances-newest-and-longest-cable-car The low-cost British airline Jet2 has announced it will begin operating new services between the UK and southern France, starting in the summer of 2022. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210225/new-flights-to-south-of-france-launched-by-jet2 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:15:18 +0100 new-flights-to-south-of-france-launched-by-jet2 A teenager is being questioned by police after taking four women hostage at a bar on the outskirts of the southern French city of Toulouse. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190508/how-four-women-were-freed-in-a-hostage-drama-in-toulouse Wed, 08 May 2019 09:35:04 +0200 how-four-women-were-freed-in-a-hostage-drama-in-toulouse Five residents at a retirement home in southern France have died and over a dozen others were sickened in a suspected case of food poisoning, officials said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190401/four-dead-and-15-critically-ill-after-suspected-food-poisoning-in-french-retirement-home Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:56:30 +0200 four-dead-and-15-critically-ill-after-suspected-food-poisoning-in-french-retirement-home A man "deliberately" rammed his car into a group of pedestrians, injuring three Chinese students, one of them seriously, near the French city of Toulouse on Friday, authorities said, adding that the attack was not linked to terrorism. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171111/three-chinese-students-hurt-in-car-attack-near-toulouse Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:39:55 +0100 three-chinese-students-hurt-in-car-attack-near-toulouse One person was shot dead and six others injured, two seriously, when a gunman opened fire in the southern French city of Toulouse late Monday, a local source said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170704/shooting-in-toulouse-leaves-one-dead-and-several-injured Tue, 04 Jul 2017 10:30:09 +0200 shooting-in-toulouse-leaves-one-dead-and-several-injured Toulouse has the fastest growing population of all France's cities, a census revealed on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170103/toulouse-ranks-as-frances-fastest-growing-city Tue, 03 Jan 2017 13:41:07 +0100 toulouse-ranks-as-frances-fastest-growing-city A Toulouse tribunal on Thursday rejected the request of a French widow to preserve her deceased husband's sperm for artificial insemination, despite recent decisions granting widows the right to export the gametes of their late partners. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161014/french-court-says-woman-cant-keep-her-dead-husbands-sperm Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:50:46 +0200 french-court-says-woman-cant-keep-her-dead-husbands-sperm France's Ville Rose ha seen the biggest economic growth in recent years, a new study has found, larger even than the country's capital. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161003/toulouse-sees-frances-biggest-increase-in-wealth Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:36:28 +0200 toulouse-sees-frances-biggest-increase-in-wealth Roads in and around the city of Toulouse were blocked on Monday morning as over 1,000 taxis protested against “unfair competition” from private minicab firms. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160404/taxi-driver-protest-to-halt-transport-in-toulouse Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:13:39 +0200 taxi-driver-protest-to-halt-transport-in-toulouse Toulouse-Blagnac airport was evacuated on Wednesday morning over a security alert, believed to be a suspect package. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160323/toulouse-airport-evacuated-over-security-alert Wed, 23 Mar 2016 08:51:04 +0100 toulouse-airport-evacuated-over-security-alert The annual rankings for the best student cities in France is out and the top dog is definitely not Paris, which comes in at a very unimpressive 13th place. Here's a countdown and a look at why Toulouse comes out on top. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150908/best-place-to-be-a-student-in-france Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:24:46 +0200 best-place-to-be-a-student-in-france Confusion reigned Tuesday over the whereabouts of three suspected French jihadists arrested in Turkey who include the brother-in-law of Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah after an apparent bungle by authorities. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140924/merahs-jihadi-brother-in-law-walks-free-after-france-flight-bungle Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:18:00 +0200 merahs-jihadi-brother-in-law-walks-free-after-france-flight-bungle An outraged mother spent Friday perched atop a crane in southern France denouncing the alleged unfair removal of her Autistic son from school. She's not the first parent to take make the same extreme protest. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140321/mother-in-crane-protest-over-autistic-son Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:34:00 +0100 mother-in-crane-protest-over-autistic-son When a 67-year-old French grandma was approached by two men asking her for a cigarette on a cold night in Toulouse, she declined. But instead of accepting her knock back, the pair of thugs picked her up and threw her into the freezing waters of the Garonne river, reports say. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131122/french-granny-thrown-in-river-after-cigarette-refusal Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:50:00 +0100 french-granny-thrown-in-river-after-cigarette-refusal French President François Hollande has promised to unearth the truth about Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah as France remembered the gunman's seven victims on the first anniversary of his shooting spree in Toulouse and Montauban. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130318/hollande-promises-answers-over-mohamed-merah Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:45:00 +0100 hollande-promises-answers-over-mohamed-merah French police have arrested two men in the southern city of Toulouse in connection with Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah's killing spree in March last year that claimed seven lives, a police source told AFP. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130227/two-new-arrests-in-toulouse-gunman-probe Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:26:55 +0100 two-new-arrests-in-toulouse-gunman-probe