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There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop, a snitch, a stool pigeon, an informer.

A recent court ban on feeding pigeons in public spaces in the western Indian city of Mumbai has become a major flashpoint between civic bodies, public health activists and bird lovers.

Prime Minister François Bayrou has put the cat among the pigeons in promising to cut two of France's national holidays in order to rescue the country's finances.

Outside the market, feeding pigeons with her children, Diana said she'd been planning to vote for Simion until she saw a video from Paris just before the elections.

The poor state of the hospital was also raised as repair and cleanliness was below expected standards, with several cases of pigeons being found in trauma theatres or on the theatre corridor.