the british in eymet

FOR years journalists and film crews have decended on Eymet in spades to expose the bastide for what they'd like to think it is, a British ghetto.

In the words of Sherlock Holmes, " It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist the facts to suit the threories, instead of theories to suit facts."

And so they leave for the UK having bagged the scoop, hatching such ill-conceived sound bytes as "Dordogneshire" and "Eymet-on-Thames" en route.