Mountain biking guide Alistair Jamieson, from Essex, could face a €15,000 fine and a year in prison over a ruling banning him from work.

Jamieson, whose Trail Addiction business runs MTB holidays in the French Alps, has a British diploma in mountain biking instruction and 13 years of teaching experience in the sport, but local prosecutors in Savoie have declared his credentials as void, because they were not gained in France.

Speaking to the Telegraph, Jamieson said: “I have quite clearly been forbidden from working, but I am continuing to do so because I believe that the French authorities do not have the right to do this. They should recognise my diploma. I have clients who have booked holidays and I think I am being pursued because I am the most successful mountain biking business in the region.”

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