15 h. ago 'I took a 24h trip to France for wine tastings and tours – and was back home in time for dinner'

If you're looking for a quick Bank Holiday trip, I enjoyed a 24-hour trip to France from London, managing to fit in a wine tasting, walking tour and Michelin-star meal into my short holiday.

Society

43 h. ago Wine tasting bloodbath: Brit mother, 65, stabbed to death in France 'tried to defend herself' during frenzied attack

Karen Carter, 65, was found on Tuesday evening, collapsed and unconscious, 'covered in stab wounds', on the ground next to her car in Trémolat, France

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1 week ago From vast views to vineyards: Why a river cruise is the best way to get a true taste of Bordeaux

A new itinerary through the famous wine region in southwestern France promises chocolate, charm and chateaux – cruise writer Marc Shoffman sails down the Garonne and Dordogne to test it out

Politics

3 w. ago How I escaped the rat race, bought a corner of paradise in France and found love... by learning to make wine the VERY old fashioned way

Peter Hahn rises with the sun, bakes his own bread, works all day on his 25-acre vineyard in the Loire - mostly bent double with a pair of secateurs in his hands - and never, ever, takes a holiday.

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3 w. ago Tiger Woods health concerns emerge as golf legend misses Masters Champions Dinner

Tiger Woods was absent from the Champions Dinner on Tuesday while a video featuring the 15-time major champion, played during a press conference, sparked concerns among fans

Sport

3 w. ago EU drops plans to hit American bourbon with retaliatory tariffs

Drink removed from draft list after lobbying from whiskey-making Ireland and wine-producing Italy and FranceUS politics live – latest updatesAmid the economic maelstrom of Donald Trump’s trade war, drink makers might take a small drop of comfort: the EU has dropped plans to hit American bourbon with retaliatory tariffs.Bourbon and other US whiskeys have escaped EU countermeasures after heavy lobbying from the EU’s drinks-producing countries – such as whiskey-making Ireland and the wine behemoths Italy and France – who feared their alcohol industries would become casualties of a global trade war. Continue reading...

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