GREATER trade and tourism links are being forged between Guernsey and France, thanks to a French organisation.

Time was when it would have been hard to have a bad meal there, but now it seems it’s increasingly difficult to find a good one. France, traditionally renowned for its food and wine, is in the culinary doldrums. Could it be a case of fish and chips triumphing over foie gras?

ALL members of the De Carteret family are invited along to a reunion in Carteret this summer.

It’s the home of ‘Cezanne’s mountains’ and has never been far from the spotlight since the ‘father of modern art’ immortalised Aix-en-Provence on canvas.  But a joint exhibition featuring his work and Picasso’s has it poised to attract even more attention, as our France correspondent reports…

Many European voters are far from happy – particularly when it comes to their money being wasted. But it is they who ultimately have control, as France correspondent Bruce Parker reports.