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In an earlier post back in April, I mentioned important changes in French law affecting in-car speed camera detection systems. If you’re planning to take your car and satnav to France in future and you don’t already know about these changes – which could easily affect you in a very direct way – I humbly suggest you check out my article.

Following on from that news, I’m using my public service remit to point out that from July 1st this year, read more

We are proud and happy to announce that we have just won two more industry accolades for excellence in languages training.
Accreditation by British Council Business English UK Group
Not only are we accredited to British Council with its demanding assessment criteria, we have also been admitted to the Business English UK Group. This is a select group of only 30 members in the whole of the UK, all of whom are accredited by British Council but also rigorously inspected against a read more

Leonardo da Vinci was born in Florence on 15 April 1452 and since 2002 a group of people have used this anniversary to promote an event to encourage us all to create a better future by thinking and acting more creatively. Their website is full of suggestions about how to be innovative.  I attach below a list of actions which they imply contribute to the Innovative Mindset.

Make the box bigger, or better, imagine there is no box
Question what hasn’t been asked
Make read more

Going on holiday to France this summer?

On 3rd January 2012, the French Code de la route (and specifically Article R413-15 thereof, if you want chapter and verse) was changed with immediate effect to prohibit drivers from “owning or carrying [or using] machines, devices or products intended, or purporting, to detect the presence or disturb the operation of devices, instruments and systems for the detection of offences against road transport law or regulations or evading the detection of said offences” (my read more