EU veterinary experts in Brussels today continued to discuss French and Dutch plans to vaccinate poultry in the face of an advancing bird flu strain.

AT least four people have been killed by storms that battered western France overnight, officials said yesterday.

At least four people have been killed by storms that battered western France overnight, officials said today.

At least one person has died after violent storms swept across south-western France, knocking down trees and causing dozens of injuries.

FRANCE'S Atlantic coast could be swamped with oil from the sunken tanker Prestige within days after high winds tore up an oil slick out at sea, authorities said yesterday.