It did, clearly and distinctly (as the meat of the day might say).
But Eymet and Lauzan are hardly a million miles apart - I guess that BBC article is just being a bit sloppy with its geography.
Why are you being so nasty. It’s really quite unnecessary.
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You must be really sensitive if you call that nasty
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It is LauzUn.
People pronounce things weirdly, eg I live in Monbazillac, pronounced more or less Maw(n)bazyak by Fr people and I have heard English speakers who have live here for 20 years still saying MongbaZEALYak.
Or putting a T in the middle.
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Am I being nasty?
I say what I think so it must jus be my nature I guess. You should pity me 
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I don’t think it is nasty, but realistic. I get irritated, if not angry, at people who are doing things under the counter. It’s not easy to run a business here, and the range of taxes we pay is remarkable. So people who don’t set things up properly, don’t register, don’t pay CFE, cotisations, you name it and then accept cash from fellow Brits and then swan about in their UK registered cars talking up what they do makes me boil.
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Seconded ! 
et que ceux qui font ce qu’ils veulent, comme si la loi et les règles ne s’appliquaient pas à eux, se cassent et le plus vite possible ! 
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The actual televised report that I watched on BBC 1 yesterday definitely implied that they were running a kennel business, but maybe that’s TV post-production editing for you. It also implied that they were living in, or at least near, Eymet, as the whole thing was basically about the Brit population in Eymet. I made a comment to my wife expressing my surprise about the fact that Eymet had been on British TV three times in the space of a week on various TV news outlets. Is this just lazy journalism again ?
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You nailed it. My already generally low empathy levels reach about ground zero in such cases.
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If you dig a bit on the net you’ll find a website and Facebook page, they are involved with a gite and a kennel/cattery all connected to a Siret number in someone else’s name.
When we bought our house in this town (from an Australian fellow who loved it here but couldn’t find work) he told us emphatically, and more than once,; “Don’t trust the anglais”.
A local English couple who run the English Shop here told us, “Never volunteer your address to a local Brit. You may be inviting trouble”.
There is a palpable mistrust amongst English speakers in the commune. One senses a ‘them and/or us’ attitude.
Very few seem to spend any time in town, and I’ve never met other Brits (save one) at any of the events run by local French inhabitants, to which all are invited. We’ve lived here since 2015.
At first I thought I was being paranoid about the Brits, but now I think it’s justified.
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Serve on his local council, for one thing. Being a thoroughly integrated menber of his community, with French children.
Ask all sorts of people, from Harry Wales to the [Milly] Dowler family.
So?
If a French born person, also with French children, who has served his community and never been a burden on the state can be refused for not having a stable financial track record than so can this person. Why should rules be any different?
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Like the wretched way that the sainted Delia has the British saying chorITso
No reason at all. I was responsding to the question “what has he done … ?”
Whatever the shortcomings of his case, he has not failed in every respect, which was implied in your assertion.
Fair enough, I did ask why does he think he deserves it and that’s the answer 
I guess what I should have said was, What has he done for France that’s so exceptional that he thinks he should bypass normal scrutiny and assessment? If the prefecture and the ministry, having looked at every aspect of his application, have concluded that good work in a village of 700 souls and success in fathering children isn’t actually enough to compensate for other less positive factors and make him net net an asset to France, why is he still adamant that those two factors are more important than everything else and France needs to change its criteria? No, France doesn’t have to change its criteria if it doesn’t want, it’s at France’s discretion who it chooses to accept as citizens. Regardless of what people think they “deserve”.
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Going after Milly Dowler’s phone was despicable.
Careful with the attributions though - the quoted comment was Anna’s, not mine.
Yep, don’t call Paul nasty too, he isn’t 
Who on earth is Milly Dowler?
I’ll agree with that. The prefecture seems to have been perfectly clear about the reasons for rejection and they [the reasons] do not seem to be anomalous.