New law “will hide MPs’ wealth”
Front page news today centres on a new law that “will make it difficult to verify the wealth and income of anyone exercising political office or holding a high public
‘New suspect’ in Maddie case is German child-killer questioned over little boy who went missing from Aljezur in 1996
The snowball effect of Correio da Manhã’s revelations on the 12th anniversary of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have now seen multiple news sources name the ‘new suspect’ identified by
Political crisis threatened over teachers vote ‘appears to be fizzling out’
Just as pundits predicted, the ‘political crisis’ that saw PM António Costa address the nation on Friday evening, threatening to resign, appears already to be ‘fizzling out’. Centre right parties
Police ‘catch’ speedboat carrying almost 3 tons of hashish – but don’t have vehicles to respond to “simple theft”
Algarve GNR have had ‘altos e baixos’ this week: an incredible drug haul was celebrated in the east near Vila Real de Santo António, while a ‘simple theft’ from a
Association seeks to support migrant and refugee ‘entrepreneurs’
With more than 420,000 migrants registered in Portugal and 1,600 refugees ‘dispersed throughout the country’ a new association is seeking to support and promote the winning ideas of ‘new arrivals’.
Virgin Voyages ‘Scarlet Lady’ (adults only) cruise ship recruits in Portugal
Anyone looking for a rather different kind of job might think this is it: Virgin Voyages is launching a new kind of cruise ship next year – one that promises
Shock as family preparing to bury loved-one hears body has been cremated ‘by mistake’
A Portuguese family expecting to bury a loved-one later today received more bad news early this morning. The body of 39-year-old logger Jorge Miguel Barbosa da Cunha has ‘disappeared’ and
Operation Ether sees new heads roll
Following on from the preventive custody of tourism boss of the north Melchior Moreira, Operation Ether has been gathering steam, seeing a major purge ongoing this week and another set
Fuel truckers set May 17 for nationwide strike
The national syndicate of drivers of dangerous materials – the relatively new union that brought the country to the brink of fuel-starved paralysis over Easter – was reported today to
Campaigners launch new environmental battle to preserve Alvor’s threatened Quinta da Rocha
Environmental campaigners desperate to save the last ‘green lungs’ of the coastal Algarve have a new cause – the ‘soft rural tourism plan’ recently presented for Alvor’s Quinta da Rocha,