Rivers will also be reconnected to floodplains, which act as natural storage areas, and concrete covering historic waterways will be removed.
Sarkozy was convicted of trying to bribe a judge in 2014, after he had left office, by suggesting he could secure a prestigious job for him in return for information about a separate case.In the 2021 ruling, Judge Christine Mée said the conservative politician "knew what [he] was doing was wrong", adding that his actions and those of his lawyer had given the public "a very bad image of justice".
The crimes were specified as influence-peddling and violation of professional secrecy.Speaking after Wednesday's verdict by the Cour de Cassation, Sarkozy's lawyer, Patrice Spinosi, said his client would comply with the conviction terms.Sarkozy has now exhausted all his legal options in France, and his planned appeal to the European Court of Human Rights will not delay the verdict from being carried out.
The 2021 conviction was a legal landmark for post-war France.The only precedent was the trial of Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac, who got a two-year suspended sentence in 2011 for having arranged bogus jobs at Paris city hall for allies when he was Paris mayor. Chirac died in 2019.
The restoration of a historic electric train has been completed, with members of the public able to have a look inside for the first time.
Brad Wright, 22, a railway enthusiast from Needham Market, Suffolk, bought the British Railways Class 309, also known as the Clacton Express, in March 2022.A police helicopter was forced to abandon a mission when the pilot reported coming dangerously close to a drone.
The chopper had been sent to assist at RAF Lakenheath, in Suffolk,Flight data indicated the aircraft climbed steeply and made a series of sharp turns while over the nearby town of Newmarket in November.
The National Police Air Service (NPAS), which operates the Airbus H135, would not comment as the incident was still under investigation. However, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to police revealed the helicopter withdrew "due to a drone coming close to them".NPAS confirmed that the helicopter, understood to have the registration G-POLJ, had been sent to the area on 22 November following reports of drone sightings.