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Dell Europe at Montpellier, Mine is an UK Win 7operating system with a French "AZERTY" keyboard,  If you want UK "QUERTY" No problems Dell SA 1 rond- point Benjamin Franklin 34938 Montpellier Cedex 9 France De 9h00 à 20h00 du lundi au vendredi De 10h à 18h le samedi 0825387303  or see whats on offer use Ireland site, Prices in € and pages in English Hope this helps

One of the main advantages in having a carte is that France is a member of the Schengen Agreement, where passport control is abolished and a residents permit/ National ID Card is the only proof needed of residency within those countries. It is basically a Passport free area allowing travel by any method. Ideal if your Passport expires ( The UK and Eire are outside this agreement)

I think the problem exists: (1) Non French Assurance do not understand the continental way. (2) French Birth Certificates follow you through Life, as an example, when a French citizen  gets Married, the details of the Wedding is entered normally in Red on the  Birth certificate, divorce and death are also added. Therefore if you are doing any tracing of French relations, you contact the Town hall of their birth and they will issue a birth certificate, which will be endorsed with their life history. Copies of French Birth Certificates are free because if Agencies want one ( CAF, CPAM, CRAM etc) they will normally stipulate under 3 months old Incidently the Town hall should be able to give you a copy of the Doctors certification as this is what allows them to add to the deceased Birth Certificate. If they are a International Company, their Paris Head Office should be able to offer assistance. .

I think it all depends who writes your prescription, I am under Montpellier for my Rheumatoid Arthritis, which is "ALD", they had thousands of the normal prescription forms, for the last three years they filled  my prescription Medicines on it, and wrote ALD on the top. Never had any problems getting it dispensed but there again your card Vital with show the chemist what you are Exempt from.

Like all of us, we can only answer from personal experience. My daughter has been here since she was 7, she is now 24 and doing her masters at Uni. She was diagnosed when she was about 9, and regularly had assistance from a Orthophonist. It was the Orthophonist who compiled the dossier and submitted it to Rectorat at Montpellier. Eventually she got a document from them that allowed her a third more time in every exam. This facility was the greatest help and enabled her to pass exams in college, Lycée and now at Uni. It gave her the confidence not only at exam times but the fact that all teachers knew her disability and actively helped her in lessons and so did her class mates. It is not a easy road for her or us as parents, but we all had excellent support and has given her the confidence to discuss her problems openly.

[quote user="LyndaandRichard"]For some reason they have "improved" it but it has become unusable for me and a real pain. What alternatives do people use apart from sat nav? Was so simple to use before. Shame. [/quote] No probs for me with SatNav. With yours if you turn it upside down, ( the SatNav not the car[:)][:)] there will be a little hole where you can put a paper clip in and re set the memory. After you have reset it you should have no probs, most chips get overloaded from time to time ( must be the Vinegar), It is better to be in the open rather than the house so it can read the Sats easily, do not be surprised if this takes a few minutes. You can also go onto the Forums of your SatNav ( Google it)  and the fault may  have been identified before with solutions, If satnavs are kept up to date there should never be a problem, My wife hates Map reading but will go anywhere with our SatNav. But never with me! I wonder why[:D]

[quote user="Pads"]My questions are : 1, Using a french mobile phone if police, first aid is needed who would I ring ?[/quote] Phone 112 with any mobile in Europe!! It goes into the main swichboard of the emergency services anywhere within the Union.

If the Insurance is not for "Hire & Reward", the moment you enter the car the Insurance becomes null and void and you are travelling in a uninsured vehicle.

[quote user="Sunday Driver"] I don't understand where you get that idea from.  The DVLA and HMRC class EU plated vehicles as foreign registered vehicles.  Why shouldn't the GMP? Are you an ex-trucker by any chance?[/quote] The DVLC differentiate between EU and Foreign. HMRC have had lost virtually every decision of theirs when appealed to the ECJ including personal use imports, over their failure to abide by European regulations. The only Trucks I have been in was in my youth when Hitch Hiking, never driven one, Nowdays you have to be an attractive Blonde Female  to be a trucker, well they are the ones I see driving in France[:P]

Without wanting to procrastinate the above,  It actually refers to foreign registered vehicles, A EU plated vehicle is not considered foreign ( Except obviously to Greater Manchester Police), Russian is foreign where as Latvia and Estonia are  not that is why there has been in certain National Press great indignation that EU truckers are only summonsed for RT offences where as Foreign Truckers would be immobilised. There has recently been EU legislation to allow EU Fixed Penalty Tickets to be collected  in the Residents country. Guess which EU Country has not enacted the Legistlation??  the UK. But as  Truckers organisations both EU and Foreign point out the UK does not have the designated Truck Stops, Toilets and washing facilities are non existant and where they do have limited spaces like Granada Services they are not Free unlike in mainland Europe, and truckers have to use lay bye's where they are continually harrased by the police for a variety of reasons, including the noise from refridge units. There were numerous cases a few years ago of attempted prosecution of non UK truckers for using TV's with their cabs without a UK licence.?????

[quote user="Ron Avery"][quote user="Puzzled"] A Sunday solicitor will probably be just a solicitor's runner with little legal experience and even less knowledge of EU law.  Best chance of finding answers today is probably going to come from this forum.  [/quote] What a load of ill informed tosh, a duty solicitor is a duty solicitor is a duty solicitor, and as for this Forum being the answer to outcast's problems, well as they say "you are having a laugh mate".  "Let me go because some bloke in France on French Forum said you can't keep me locked up[:-))] It might escaped some people's attention and I appreciate that some, though not all, are trying to help,  that you don't get arrested and kept in cells for driving whilst uninsured nor is it an EU law offence.  He has been arrested for an offence under UK law which a UK policeman and/or custody sergeant are probably quite well informed over and the duty solicitor would be a darn sight better inforned about UK law than any of the barrack lawyers on this Forum.  You sure old outcast was not his charming old self to the boys in blue??? [/quote] So  No case to answer" which was made after the CPS  withdrawing the charges, clearly proving that Plod and Custody Plod do not know how many beans make five. They certainly do not know the UK Road Traffic Act and the related insurance and overseas provisions, the MIB have a special Doc for Plods clearly outlining the Insurance Regs, which is available in the reserve and the custody suite. here is a link http://www.mib.org.uk/GreenCard/en/Default.htm contrary to your protestations, you can be arrested and held in custody for driving correctly and being Insured. Post edited by the moderators. Users must not post messages which are insulting, abusive, racist, sexist, or derogatory in any way to others, whether they are individuals or companies, users of the Forum or not. This includes material sent via personal e-mails through this forum.

[quote user="Boiling a frog"]My sympathy for the OP has now somewhat diminished following the revalation that the husband appears to have resisted arrest and that an assistance call by the original officer resulted in 6 police cars turning up. I am afraid that I can never find any justification for resisting arrest and neither can the courts [/quote] Resisted Arrest!! For What??? Opas's Husband on the given Facts has done what wrong? He was returning to his home in France, which is his fixed address so if he had committed a RT Offence a summons would have been adequate. His Temporary address would have been  the  Cab of  Tractor unit XXXXXX in various lay byes or Lorry  Parks, he most probably told Plod this this, but Plods like call centre staff  only understand what is on their  check list, outside the Box is out side their Plod world. He would quite rightly be P off if a Jobsworth TD Copper started telling him he was wrong when clearly he was not. Resisting Arrest will always be used to justify a bad  stop. As he had not been resident within the UK for six months plus he would not need UK Registration / Insurance/ Car Tax on his Car irrespective of his reasons for being in the UK. The UK is now the most repressive police state within most of the World, even the States and Ex Soviet states have more freedom than the UK. To all the posters who were in the Job, Forget your past  UK Police experience, It does not matter whether your were Deputy Commissioner/ DCI a Skipper or a lowly PC  Today Police are not the same as you were Today it is Politically and points driven. . Opus's husband is worth more points than a Rapist, Murderer or Civil dispute;  they are the realities in Todays Britain. Many posters have given Opas Good advice and Moral support but a few !!!!!!!! Let them not criticise next time it could well be your Student Son/ Grandson/ Niece who has gone over the the UK to earn  some  money, or even your wife or husband  like Opas then we will see all the Pious  comments in that case.

Unfortunately  most of us on this Forum are of a certain  age and even today believe that Mr Plod is always right. Whilst it is the Custody  Sargent's duty to oversea the Prisoners being detained, he will only Judge if the original reason for arrest was correct. As now days they arrest innocent demonstrators under the terrorism act, the Custody's Sargent duty of care has long gone. As far as Opas is concerned she quite rightly wants her man home. We can all pontificate but all Police stations are a Black hole over the week end and unless she has some one with clout he will be appearing tomorrow before a group of worthies who always support the Police. There is no reason why if he pleads "Not Guilty" tomorrow  that he and his car should not be released. Bob T 24 if the Mr Plods send van loads to arrest Pensioners for Council Tax offences why shouldn't they do the same for Opas's Husband. Chief Constables have been proved to be corrupt and they are allowed to resign keeping thier full pension. Wake up smell the Coffee

Sue, there is Facebook here and Bebo. One of the Problems with Anglo / French exchanges is the two different systems. If you are in France and you are on a course run by ANPE you have to find your own Stage Practical, No one does it for you. At Uni you find your own accomadation , buy your own books etc, and inter react with the others within your subjects. And of course France being bigger most of the people within the class will most probably not even be from the same region nor mind the same department. My daughter has been French educated since 7 years old and is reading English at Uni, she is having some difficulties because she still has an English mind set. The Logic of the French Education System even in English is different, she gets some of her completely French Educated Friends to explain how certain English idioms are. I am at a loss to understand it when she explains it to me. The only advice I can give is that if you do not have a competent command of French do not come to Uni here, you will lose to much to warrant it. Michael

Dave,          thats about it  they are going to change it.  I was using FTP and had stacks of recordings on the Hard Disk which I have lost!!!!!! Teach me to back them up or transfer up to the PC. Now that you have it working ok, maybe its the time for you to do a forced update. You do your ADSL Box first: disconnect the power supply/ reconnect until you see the 8888 on the screen then disconnect again. repeat this operation a further 4 times. then you will see 4 horizontal lines let this cycle complete then disconnect for the last time, it will be working ok. Then  re-initialise the HD box disconnect and whilst holding two of the buttons on the front re- connect. relese the buttons and the screen will show "FIRMWARE". To reinitialise the Wi-Fi disconnect thepower to the HD and  disconnect the ethernet cable to the ADSL Box, reconnect the Ethernet and reconnect the power to the HD box. You will have updated all the software. Michael

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Dave, Just to upset you even more, I have been having a prob with the HD box thats why they changed the PSU, Yesterday I recieved  a Email from them. Nous tenons à vous informer que le 21/03/2008, une demande d�échange de votre module HD v5, est en cours de validation vers le point de retrait TABAC PRESSE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, de ce fait nous vous invitons à patienter jusqu'à la réception d�un SMS, sur votre GSM ainsi vous emballez le module HD avec tous ce que vous avez reçu avec, et veuillez vous rendre en personne muni de votre module afin de procéder à l'échange. De ce fait, je vous invite à patienter et vous remercie de la confiance que vous nous accordez. Cordialement, Nous restons à votre entière disposition pour toute information complémentaire. Abdelaziz, Service Mailer Free They are effecient.

Hi Dave, I have just receieved a new PSU from free today.After a month of complaining, while they offered me different solutions. It is slightly smaller than the old one, does not run hot and reads just under 12v. Michael