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Things are getting complicated around rue de Béthune, Lille
Par Nicolas Montard | 10 avril 2015
It's no fun if you have set up shop in rue de Béthune, Lille, at the moment. At least, not for some high street shores. It's been common knowledge for a few weeks that Galeries Lafayette are not over the ...
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The Northerners’ Deviant Pocket Dictionary – the French (Belgium?) Fry
Par Nicolas Montard | 29 mars 2015
This election Sunday, it's out of the question to talk politics. But how many of those running for election will gobble down a quick bag of chips? It's our dictionary entry of the week Food for the soul. The potato, ...
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Re-dividing national territory: why not merge several departments ?
Par Marc Prévost | 17 mars 2015
To simplify the puzzle, join several pieces together! For our region, that would mean merging the departments of Nord Pas de Calais with those of Picardy (Aisne, Oise and the Somme). Certain politicians are considering it, including Dominique Dupilet, former ...
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The Northerners’ Deviant Pocket Dictionary – Pas-de-Calais: Filouse
Par DailyNord | 09 mars 2015
In the middle of the Paris International Agricultural Show, DailyNord has entered a new word into our proud Northern dictionary: Filouse. Not exactly a companion animal. Also slang for racy, impish, naughty (in a positive sense) and often used ...
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When Lille dreamt of Olympus
Par Olivier Averlant | 03 mars 2015
The gradual unveiling of plans last week to present Paris' candidature for the 2024 Olympic Games has revived memories going back twenty years. To 07 November 1995 to be exact, when the French Olympic Committee (Cnosf) chose Lille as France's ...
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The Northerners’ Deviant Pocket Dictionary: Carlton
Par DailyNord | 15 février 2015
Since Monday, the Second of February, Lille is at the centre of a highly mediatised court case for pimping. A zany redefinition for the Carlton Hotel or how it has unwittingly become the focal point for a sordid case of ...
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The Northerners’ Deviant Pocket Dictionary : Emile Basly
Par Julie Kiavue | 26 janvier 2015
Emile Basly didn't just have a school or boulevard named after him. He was also the "Tsar of Lens" and the figure who inspired, in part at least, the character Etienne Lantier in Emile Zola's "Germinal". Male, born 29 March ...
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The Northerners’ Deviant Pocket Dictionary: The Lille-Flanders Railway Station
Par Nicolas Montard | 15 janvier 2015
On this Christmas Eve, we could have compiled a dictionary on Father Christmas but he's out of luck; he isn't a local. So we chose to take an interest in the Lille-Flanders Railway Station instead, which isn't quite as local ...
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Which is the most viewed video for your town on YouTube?
Par Nicolas Montard | 12 janvier 2015
An amusing exercise that DailyNord tried out. Find the most viewed video for your town on YouTube (the method: we typed in the name of the town in the platform's search engine and selected the top videos recorded in that ...
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When Calais was English
Par Nicolas Montard | 18 décembre 2014
Following on from when Flanders became part of France and the episode of the witches of Templeuve, here is the next chapter in our historical chronicle. This time it takes us to the coast and the seaport of Calais. Reputed ...
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Beer more expensive? A review two years after the tax increase
Par Gaëtane Deljurie | 12 décembre 2014
It was in October 2012: The French National Assembly voted for a tax increase on beer (and only beer), to fill the empty coffers of French Social Security. For the region with its thirty odd breweries, it was a call to ...
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Have you missed the “opening” of the year?
Par DailyNord | 29 novembre 2014
If you haven't heard the latest news, you must be living in the back of beyond or in some obscure corner of the North with no means of communication worthy of the 21st century. Retrospective on an astounding publicity campaign ...
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