The council is considering changing the existing provision of seven weeks holiday in the summer with one in October, to six weeks in the summer and two in October.

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Millau was infamous as one of France's worst traffic bottlenecks, clogged during the summer holiday migration between Paris and the Mediterranean.

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The government has staged its usual summer pantomime in recent weeks, the one in which the prime minister pretends to take a holiday, leaving others to mind the Downing Street shop.

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