Paris plans more nursery schools

Working parents in Paris will have access to 22 new day nurseries in the city by the end of this year. Paris mayor, Bertrand Delanoê, has pledged to create four and half thousand new nursery places by 2014, which will...

Controls for Paris hygiene department

Paris’ so-called ‘Brigade Anticrottes’ has been brought to heel. The 90 officers of the city’s hygiene department (DPE) issue fines and report dog owners whose animals foul the pavements, those who put bin liners on public highways or those who...

La Madeleine to get new access

Paris’ Madeleine church, one of most visited in the city, will no longer be off-limits for those with reduced mobility. The imposing structure in the parish of the Elysée, whose façade fronts the Rue Royale, has a famous 28-step staircase...

Kiki the tortoise dies

Paris’ historic 28-hectare Jardin des Plantes, founded in 1626, has lost one of its most famous residents. Kiki, a giant 250-kilo Seychelles tortoise believed to be one of the largest in Europe, has died aged 146 years. A resident...