PM lands in Beijing ahead of meeting with President Xi
A week after the world’s press featured a lavish military parade in Beijing involving China’s president Xi Jinping, and Russian and North Korean counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un, Portugal’s
Lisbon mayor promises to resign if funicular tragedy “caused by error of own making”
With so much being aired about the political responsibility/ ies for the appalling funicular disaster last week, Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas said on air last night that he will resign
Funicular tragedy: brakeman “applied brakes to no effect”
An ‘information note’ on the Glória Funicular tragedy in Lisbon that killed 16 people (most of them tourists visiting the city) has confirmed a number of ‘key details’, without apportioning
Rain helps firefighters dominate Seia wildfire
Rain falling during the night helped firefighters control the fire that started yesterday morning in Sandomil, Seia municipality. A spokesperson for the Beiras and Serra da Estrela sub-regional command of
Prison break disciplinary proceedings close with guards coming off worst
Disciplinary proceedings instituted over the daylight prison break by five ‘dangerous men’ exactly a year ago today have concluded – with prison guards coming off the worst. No reprimand emerged
Hundreds of firefighters, 14 planes and helicopters, race to contain Seia wildfire
Today’s scorching weather has been accompanied by yet another wildfire breaking out in the north, this time near Sandomil, in the municipality of Seia (Guarda district), which only last month suffered
Fire breaks out in Almancil premises of waste management company Algar
Firefighters still on scene as blaze now contained to within building Algarve firefighters were called out at lunchtime this afternoon to a fire at the Outeiro (Almancil) premises of waste
Glória funicular tragedy: CHEGA presents motion of censure against Lisbon City Council
Almost 48-hours on from the worst human tragedy to visit Lisbon this century, knives are beginning to ‘come out’ – and they are all pointing at Lisbon City Council. Early
Psychiatric patient shoots wife to death … in Porto psychiatric hospital
A 51-year-old man shot his wife in the early hours of this morning inside a ‘hospital dedicated to mental health’ in Porto. The story, brought by Jornal de Notícias, gives
University dean and education minister in very public barny over ‘high standards’ required for students of medicine
Expresso today has aired the now very public barny involving the dean of Porto University and Education Minister Fernando Alexandre. The essence of the spat centres on Portugal’s ‘rigorous entry