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François Bayrou, the beleaguered French prime minister, has said that the 8 September confidence vote in parliament, which is expected to go against him and his budget proposals, will not decide “the

Southwest estate agent Jerry Green talks to Karen Tait about the appeal of his local area and its property offerings