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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Alain Juppé, mayor of Bordeaux and French foreign minister from 2011 to 2012, has come out strongly against a French Senate pre-project to tax wine in order to develop programmes against alcohol abuse. Juppé spoke up at a press conference 21 May after the national organization of Young Farmers protested Friday against [...]
BERN, SWITZERLAND – For nearly half of all couples touched by conjugal violence, alcohol is a factor, a new study mandated by the Federal Health Office shows. In 9 out of 10 cases, it is the man who is drinking, and in 1 in 4 situations alcohol was drunk at the time of the violence. [...]
Update 17:45 Wrong-way tunnel driver stopped on A1 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Ascension weekend was taken too literally by at least one driver in canton Vaud who was nabbed by police Sunday 12 May for pushing his VW Golf gas pedal up to 240 kph on the A1 autoroute between Lausanne and Yverdon – while [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 64-year-old area man died in an accident Monday morning 13 May at 06:00 on the Vevey-Lausanne road, near Cully. His car veered to the left, hit a barrier and rolled down a slope, landing against a tree. He was promptly given first aid by a passerby who called for help, but [...]
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 17-year-old Portuguese youth who decided to throw an “electro goa” party at the Chassagne woods refuge near Clées, in canton Vaud, found himself in deep trouble with the police after the unauthorized event drew a crowd of 200 from Switzerland and France. The young man had advertised the event on social [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / AMONG THE VINES – Drivers in Britain who are serious drink-drive offenders will face stiffer rules 1 June. High-risk offenders and anyone who refuses a blood-alcohol test will have to re-apply for a license and will not be allowed to drive until the new license is issued – and that will happen [...]
Hedging his chances worked against him LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A police patrol in canton Vaud decided to check a driver for alcohol Friday evening 5 April after he drove a car with French plates into a hedge on the road from Grancy to Cottens. The 70-year-old regional man’s alcohol level was 2.9, far above the [...]
Investigation: still unclear if he was shot or committed suicide in final moments GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The man who killed three fellow workers at Kronospan in Menznau near Lucerne died after he was attacked by a colleague who tried to subdue him, but aspects of those final moments are unclear, including whether he committed suicide [...]
I’ve been re-reading several old favourites and I am always surprised how some of them never age. The dust jacket of my copy of Tennessee Williams‘ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof refers to its ‘heady cocktail of sex, greed, frustration and betrayal …’ It won Williams his second Pulitzer Prize for Literature but it [...]
Saving money is creating another problem, research shows BERN, SWITZERLAND – Young people in Switzerland are doubling their alcohol input by “predrinking” at home before going out, shows new research by Swiss Addition, funded by the National Science Institute. A study of 1,441 people between 20 and 26, designed to draw a clearer picture of [...]
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