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Fines for parents late for school

#TOULOUSE –Parents of students were informed by an email from the Education Department of Toulouse town hall. From the start of the school year in September 2024, the community will apply "late penalties" to families who do not respect the evening Claé times ( Leisure center) by picking up their child after 6:30 p.m., closing time. "Any delay recorded in the evening may result in the billing of a flat rate of 30 € corresponding to the salary cost of the two animators who are forced to stay", specifies the letter. According to the town hall, « several hundred delays are noted » in the 211 Claé de Toulouse. The Haute-Garonne Parents' Federation denounced an exorbitant fine of ."It’s unfair because Toulouse town hall is not able to know the reason for these delays. In a tense period for purchasing power, this is putting family budgets to the test", the president of the FCPE31.

Today’s number: 120

#SOMMIERES – This is the number of patients that the Imacam radiology center should now receive each day, with the ;installation of a scanner. "We are the first liberal radiology center in the region to have obtained authorization for such equipment", welcomes Thierry Blanc. Costing 500,000 euros, this scanner "in the countryside" will allow a number of patients to avoid going to Nîmes or Montpellier. The center is committed, in return, to participating in breast cancer screening campaigns.

Reauthorized mussels

#THAU BASIN – Banned since June 20, 2024 due to a risk of toxicity, the consumption of mussels, clams and gastropods from the Etang de Thau is again authorized ."Taking into account the latest results of favorable analyzes of toxin research, the prefect of Hérault has decided to lift the last restrictions on harvesting, transport, purification, shipping, distribution and marketing of all shellfish from the Thau pond. ;, confirmed the authorities.Oysters were not affected by this ban.

The legionnaires of the 1st Reg on their way to the Paris Games

#LAUDUN-L'ARDOISE –A first contingent of the 1st foreign engineering regiment from Laudun-l’Ardoise took the road to Paris, in order to patrol the capital before the Olympic Games. On July 26, 2024, the day of the opening ceremony, they will have an even more dominant role, with the deployment of 300 men on the Seine. The legionnaires will have to secure the boat and navigation of the 10,500 athletes who will parade on 94 boats in front of 325,000 spectators and hundreds of millions of television viewers around the world. Combat divers and mine clearance workers have also been preparing for the event for a year. In addition to the rehearsals on the Seine, they even carried out a simulation last March in a river environment in the port of L’Ardoise. Like real athletes.

From mountain arnica

#LOZERE – In Margeride and on Aubrac, on the high altitude meadows of Lozère, arnica montana has found its paradise. However, the yellow flower, known for its anti-inflammatory properties, was threatened with disappearing in the wild, victim of global warming and careless pickers. So, from 2019, to preserve the resource, Crodarom, a supplier for cosmetics and which consumes 70 kilos of this dried plant per year, turned to Lozère to create a sector. In 2022, the Aubrac-Margeride Mountain Plant Producers Group was born. In 2024, 7,600 plants will be harvested. Crodarom has committed to purchasing all production, which is expected to double in 2025.

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