A FORMER schoolteacher who has swapped the blackboard for the big screen is now bidding to have the film adaptation of one of his best-selling books shot in his native Wexford.

MURDERED Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier, who endured a terrifying death in west Cork six years ago, had expressed a desire to have a baby.

THE family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier are still clinging to a hope that the Frenchwoman’s killer will be brought to justice.