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Ooh lala! HSBC in meetings with French officials over domicile.

High-speed link it definitely isn’t, but if you have three or four days to spare, a sturdy pair of calf muscles and a yen to visit Paris the greenest way, then the promised Avenue Verte, or Green Avenue may – eventually – be right up your street.

If you can’t escape to sunnier climes this summer, then take heart in the prospect that Shoreditch’s KK Outlet will bring the mountain to the proverbially named bear from tomorrow, by transplanting Paris’ legendarily cult store Colette to the ‘ditch in a grown up, commercial …

A Eurostar train running from Paris to London broke down last night at around 10pm near Ashford. The company said the locomotive had suffered a “major technical failure” (presumably one more complex than the frozen air intakes that knocked out most services in December). Fortunately …

Europe minister Chris Bryant has used Twitter, fast becoming a tool of the irked and the wronged, to launch a volley of invective against Eurostar. Ensnared for the second day in a row by trouble on the line, Bryant fumed that he is “rapidly developing …

Petit Nicholas Sarkosy Plus ça change! In 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy came to London just before the people swept him to the French Presidency. He trumpeted the capital as “one of the great French cities”. Remember? As he turned and left our city he was the …

Image by Simon K courtesy of the Londonist Flickr pool We are always interested in cinematic portrayals of London, and we’re particularly tickled by the latest news that Espion(s), a London-set French spy thriller is second from the top of the French box office chart. …

Given our own Olympic Minister’s ill conceived remarks recently as to whether, “Had we known what we know now..” about the economy, “would we have bid for the Olympics? Almost certainly not” and the ongoing struggle to cut costs by employing top price KPMG consultants …

Triathlon? Ironman? Fergeddaboutit. A stroll in the park compared to this: the Arch to Arc, a 289-mile run, swim and cycle from London’s Marble Arch to Paris’ Arc De Triomphe. Only five mortals have ever completed the gruelling course, and on Saturday hedge fund manager …

What if god was one of us… Grow up. A letter written by Einstein, dismissing the idea of god and the bible as “pretty childish” has sold for $400,000 at a Bloomsbury auction. We are living in a material world… and Posh and Paris are …