French mayor apologises after Ikea April Fool’s falls flat

Caroline Cayeux announced 4,000 jobs were coming to Beauvais before revealing it to be ill-judged joke

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A French mayor has apologised following an ill-judged April Fool’s Day joke.

Caroline Cayeux, mayor of Beauvais in northern France, announced on Twitter that Swedish furniture company Ikea would be opening a store in the small town later this year.

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