Saint-Guilhem sans fil, the shock poster in Béziers, end of the magic of Christmas… the essential news in the region

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In Barcarès, the Christmas Village has put away its chalets

#PYRÉNÉES-ORIENTALES – In the snowy paths and between the fir forests of the Christmas Village, the last visitors had an appointment for the last of 2025 this Sunday, January 5, 2025. A gently sloping closing Sunday mixed with nostalgia. A few hundred people had passed through the entrance doors. Mostly families. Some couples too. “It was crazy during these 15 days of celebration, but now, logically, the atmosphere has died down”, admitted a shopkeeper in his chalet. The last attraction, on this Epiphany day, the caravan of the Three Wise Men made its entrance to the applause of the public, in Le Barcarès as in many towns in Hérault and Gard.

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert soon to be wireless

#HÉRAULT – This will be the project of the year that is beginning. The visible networks will be removed from the streets of the village classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. “When I was elected mayor, with the municipal council, we decided that we should no longer see all these wires. This is not a good picture”, underlines Robert Siegel, first magistrate of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert. Soon, therefore, exit all the connections on the facades, the antennas and the satellite dishes as well as, along the road which leads to the village, in the heart of the Grand site, the poles for electricity, and on the gorge side, the telephone network. Orange, for its part, has accelerated the connection to optical fiber and Enedis has opted for underground connections.

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Wine: a bill on advertising

#AUDE – The RN MP for the 1st constituency of Aude, Christophe Barthès, has just tabled a bill to relax the Evin law with regard to wine advertising, according to L’Indépendant. The text, co-signed by 80 MPs from his group in the National Assembly, aims to eliminate “the exhaustiveness of advertising methods. This measure will give greater freedom to advertise wine”, he explains. Second point, authorize alcohol advertising in stadiums or during sporting events, with an addition to paragraph 6 of article L.3323-2 of the Public Health Code, which already authorizes advertising in and within traditional festivals and fairs dedicated to local alcoholic beverages. Last point: that the government submit a report to Parliament each year comparing mortality linked to wine consumption with that linked to the consumption of strong alcohol. The proposal was referred to the Social Affairs Committee, which will determine the schedule for discussion.

Today's figure: 1,400

#GARD/HÉRAULT –The early-year bathing season continues. After the coast of the Pyrénées-Orientales and Aude as well as Sète a few days ago, it was the turn of Grau-du-Roi and Frontignan this Sunday to take the plunge. Some 1,150 people in the Gard at the call of the Rotary Club and 250 on the beach of the Mouettes frontignanaise leisure center indulged in tradition in water between 12 and 15°C. Donations for Mayotte were collected in Frontignan.

A shocking poster in Béziers

#HÉRAULT – Kim Jong-Un, Vladimir Putin and Ali Khamenei topped with the slogan “Don’t forget to sort your waste”. The new poster from the municipality led by Robert Ménard is crisscrossing the city, plastered on the buses of the urban area’s public transport network. Relayed on the city’s Facebook account, the new campaign has sparked a variety of comments. Some like it, others consider the montage inappropriate and likely to stir up hatred. It remains to be seen whether this provocation will succeed in achieving its objective: that of switching to selective sorting.

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