Paris News
The cost of parking in Paris rocketed by 20 per cent on 1 July, under proposals voted in by the city council in March.
Residents are being warned of the new tariff with stickers on the city
Jersey News
Protecting the Jersey coastline
A major campaign has been launched to urge thousands of islanders to gather on the beach at St Ouen
London News
London house prices on the rise
House prices in London rose sharply by almost five per cent in the period from April to June this year, according to the Nationwide House Price Index, pushed up by a surge of interest in prime areas f...
Jersey News
Lloyds TSB faces cut backs in Jersey
Up to 180 jobs in Jersey are to go at the Lloyds banking group
Copenhagen News
Local authorities in Copenhagen have successfully introduced a range of anti-bullying measures in the city
Jersey News
Manx Laoghtan rams flown to Jersey
Two multi-horned rams have been given a flying start to their new life on the island
Barcelona News
The beach has come to the city centre again as Barcelona has now opened up its public bathing area and man-made beach inside the Jardins de la Torre de Les Aig
Amsterdam News
Warnings about dangerous criminals.
The mayor of Amsterdam is to be notified when any serious violent criminals or sex attackers are being released on parole or temporary basis to homes in the Amsterdam area, reports Dutch News. An a...
Amsterdam News
English is to become the second official language of Amsterdam city council, reports the Telegraaf. Championed by liberal democrat D66 party councillor Jan Paternotte, who promotes Amsterdam as a
Vienna News
Almost 1,000 priceless works of art, including works by Michelangelo and Rubens, have had to be transported from Vienna
Paris News
An animal more commonly seen in the southern states of the USA caused something of a commotion when it was spotted swimming serenely down the Seine on 28 June by a pedestrian.
Passing by the bridge...
Dublin News
Ireland's national theatre, The Abbey, finds itself in the midst of major restructuring and is making a quarter of its staff redundant. Although Abbey director Fiach MacConghail has stressed that...
Jersey News
Jersey police hold dossiers on members of parliament.
Police dossiers were kept by Jersey police on every member of the island
Paris News
Paris hosts Homeless World Cup in 2011
Paris has won its bid to host the 2011 Homeless World Cup, in a venue adjacent to the Eiffel Tower. The cup was launched in 2003, as a way of uniting homeless people from across the world. The Paris b...
Brussels News
Brussels-based organisation Inter-Environnement Bruxelles has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of the amount of social housing in the city that remains unoccupied, despite the current sta...
Berlin News
Rosa Luxemburg's corpse discovered?
The director of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences at Berlin
Oxford News
Bicyclists banned from pedestrian areas
Police have pledged to step up enforcement in pedestrian-only areas of Oxford city centre after recent spot checks found cyclists routinely flouting the ban, reports the Oxford Mail. During a police c...
Barcelona News
Allotments for Barcelona disabled
The city of Barcelona has agreed to allocate plots of land, to be used as city allotments, for those with physical and mental disabilities.
The plots, which are spread over eight city districts and...
Madrid News
Madrid was one of only three areas in Spain that saw a rise in unemployment in May. Due to the burst of Spain
Jersey News
Quaisne Bay gets new restaurant
A new restaurant, the Beach House, has opened at Ouaisne beach on the long-derelict site next to the slipway onto the sands.
The new venue can serve a total of 225 settings and also has a civil li...
Dublin News
In a further sign of the times, passenger numbers using Dublin's tram service, the 'Luas' have fallen by almost 2.5 million so far this year. A statement from the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) has...
Amsterdam News
Stolen Bijbels Museum artefacts found in New York
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has recovered seven ancient Egyptian items stolen from Amsterdam
London News
More caesarean births in London
Pregnant women in London are more likely to have a caesarean birth than anywhere else in the country, reports the London Evening Standard. Almost 30 per cent of pregnant women across the capital will...
Copenhagen News
A new 50 million kroner, distinctly un-Danish, urban park is planned for Copenhagen
Vienna News
The Austrian Times reports that the Viennese police have so far this year confiscated record amounts of hard drugs. To the end of May the police had confiscated 65.2 kilos of drugs such as cocaine and...
Jersey News
Allies planned battle for Channel Islands.
The full devastation that the Allies were prepared to unleash on the Channel Islands in 1942 to regain a foothold in Europe has been revealed for the first time.
Two years before the liberation of E...
