The Latest Breaking News from Bordeaux

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Paris, Marseille and Bordeaux have become the latest French citites to back away from centrally located fan zones to celebrate the football World Cup which starts on 20 November in Qatar.

Hundreds of firemen have been deployed in the Gironde region south of the city of Bordeaux to fight a blaze which has already destroyed 1,300 hectares of forest and forced the evacuation of several hundred people.

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Tests carried out on grapes to be harvested for wine in France's famous Bordeaux region show that the new vintage will not have a smoky taste as feared. This after massive fires swept through the southwest destroying thousands of hectares of forest near the vineyards over the summer.

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While rainfall on Sunday brought desperately needed relief to firefighters in the Gironde department near Bordeaux, wildfires elsewhere continue to burn though hundreds of hectares of French forests. Sunday marked the end of an intense heatwave that began on Wednesday, with storms forecast in 10 departments.

Élisabeth Borne makes statement as more than 1,000 firefighters battle huge blaze south of Bordeaux