Arras, France News

Dear Helaine and Joe: I saw your piece on double-weave coverlets and have enclosed a picture of a tapestry from my husband's family that is stamped "France" on the back.

Coldplay began July in Arras for the start of their European Festival/Stadium tour and ended in Toronto during the 3rd leg of their North American tour.

That is because these woven textiles were not only beautiful to observe but were also used to cut down on wintertime drafts, hopefully keeping the interior of the residence warmer and cozier than it might have been otherwise.

Polish police say 15 people froze to death in the country overnight as temperatures fell as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius in some places.

Ticket on-sale times and locations will be announced in local markets in the coming days.

Pearl Jam will return to Europe in the summer for a series of headlining and festival appearances, beginning June 22 in Dublin.

Pearl Jam will return to Europe in the summer for a series of headlining and festival appearances, beginning June 22 in Dublin.

LEGENDARY TV chef Jean-Christophe Novelli dropped into Kilmarnock this week to Scotland's brightest cooking prospects in action at the Braehead Cook School.

From the Concise Oxford Dictionary, Remembrance: Remembering or being remembered, memory, recollection.

The village of Kings Langley and northern French settlement Achiet-le-Grand have become officially twinned in what is hoped will seal "an everlasting friendship". Kings Langley parish councillors and villagers, among them the son of war hero Christopher Cox, set off on Friday to the French village to sign the "friendship charter". Councillor Gerry ...

Aerial combat was a key part of both World Wars. There were many great Canadian aces in the First World War, such as Arthur Roy Brown .

A PERSONAL record of the life of a soldier serving in the trenches of the First World War has been discovered in a unique collection at the local history unit.

Parisian councillors have guillotined a plan to name a street in France's capital after the revolutionary leader There was a time when the announcement would have made headlines all over the world.

You can place a top general in Afghanistan, but you can't tell him what to think.

Irelanda s Rebecca Coakley put herself in an excellent position to claim her maiden Ladiesa European Tour title after a five-under-par third round of 67 moved her into a tie for second spot at the Randstad Open de France Dames today.

A high-speed Eurostar train bound for London with 500 passengers on board was derailed near Lille in northern France yesterday.

Thermal imaging cameras and other high-tech security devices have been installed around war graves in northern France to prevent them being attacked.

A MORAY cycling duo are back home resting after completing their own "Tour De France". Fochabers father and son, Donald and Logan Macaulay, took part in a charity cycle from London to Paris to raise money for Christian Aid.

RELATIVES of soldiers from Nuneaton and Bedworth, who were killed in the First World War, are still being sought so they can be given a proper burial.

Remembering the missing pilot In his memoir "Flight to Arras," recently published in a new Hebrew translation by Giddon Ticotsky , Antoine de Saint Exupery described the thoughts that disturbed his rest in the summer of 1940, when he was a fighter pilot in the campaign to defend France at the start of World War II.