Richard Assheton

6 days ago | thetimes.com | Richard Assheton

With its timber-framed crêperies, cobbled streets and tractors carrying muck over two converging rivers, the little town of Quimperlé is a picture of Breton quaintness. But 20 years ago a surgeon moved in who would later be described in court as the devil in a white coat. The crimes he went on to commit at the local hospital left dozens of lives irrevocably altered, while a missed opportunity to stop him resulted in many more victims being exposed to his attacks.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Richard Assheton

1 month ago | observer.co.uk | Richard Assheton

Driven out by turmoil at home or lured by economic opportunities, more Central and South Americans have made the Spanish capital their home The sun went down and one of Madrid’s better-known flamenco bars started blasting out rhythms of a more Latin persuasion. “At lunchtime they play flamenco. In the evening it’s salsa,” says Victor Rocha Laporta, a fashionably dressed Venezuelan estate agent. He was in a good mood.

1 month ago | airmail.news | Richard Assheton

In a shop selling lobster pâté on the Île d’Yeu—a 12-square-mile patch of beach and whitewashed houses off the French west coast—you can buy a can of local air. That’s how much its devotees love the place. But it remains somewhat of a secret. Even in France, few could locate Île d’Yeu on a map. (It is near the more well-known Île de Ré, off the Vendée.)Yet it attracts quite a set.

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Richard Assheton