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France on Saturday deployed 2,000 gendarmes and police to the Maurienne valley in the Alps where 2,000 activists defied a protest ban at the construction site of a high speed train linking the Lyon with Turin, in Italy.

After Gino Mäder and another rider crashed, criticisms emerged about the race layout, which put the finish line down a steep descent. The police also say they're investigating the incident.

Four very young children and two adults were stabbed in a lakeside playground in the French Alps city

Australian closest pursuer of race leader Vingegaard as Alps approach

Girl on holiday with family among four children – all aged three or younger – and two adults injured in savage attack by knifeman

At least four children aged as young as three have been wounded after a Syrian asylum seeker went on the rampage with a knife in a park in France on Thursday morning.

An attacker with a knife has injured several people, including children, in a town in the Alps, France’s interior minister said.

Where: South-east France When: Sunday 4 June - Sunday 11 June Rank: UCI WorldTourThe Critérium du Dauphiné marks the traditional run-in to the Tour de France, with all eyes carefully studying how the top contenders compete. Not every hopeful for the yellow jersey at the Tour will be there this year…

London’s first Albert’s Schloss “bier palace” is set to bring a taste of the Alps to the heart of the West End’s theatreland.