Richard Assheton

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Karen McVeigh |Richard Assheton

On his trawler in Saint-Malo, one of France’s most important ports for scallops and crabs, Laurent Mevel is fixing his nets. “We really want to protect the seas,” says the 60-year-old fisher. “But we’ve got crews, we’ve got employees. “If you don’t fish any more, the fish will come from Ireland, from Scotland. Now the fish you buy from shops comes by plane. And costs less.”The Mevel family has been fishing the waters off Brittany as long as they can remember.

3 weeks ago | parapolitika.gr | Richard Assheton

Η μικρή πόλη Κιμπερλέ, με τις παραδοσιακές κρεπερί, τα πλακόστρωτα δρομάκια και τα τρακτέρ που μεταφέρουν λάσπη πάνω από δύο συγκλίνοντα ποτάμια, απεικονίζει τη γραφικότητα της Βρετάνης. Όμως, πριν από 20 χρόνια μετακόμισε εκεί ένας χειρουργός, ο οποίος αργότερα θα περιγραφόταν στο δικαστήριο ως ο διάβολος με τη λευκή ρόμπα.

3 weeks 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 month 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.