White smoke in Brussels: Portugal to get €15.3 billion for Covid recovery
Day four of the ‘two day summit’ in Brussels has resulted in at least a partial plume of white smoke. Prime minister António Costa told journalists this afternoon that Portugal
Hollywood stars fly into Algarve: Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem celebrate 10-year wedding anniversary
Hollywood stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have chosen the Algarve for a family holiday to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. The couple flew into Faro on a private jet
British experts ‘reach out’ to Algarve lab carrying out money-saving mass-testing for Covid-19
British government officials have been in touch with Portuguese scientists at the Algarve lab that has been using an ingenious ‘mass-screening’ Covid-19 test which works out at five times cheaper
Desperate for agreement EU leaders enter 4th day of talks about money
EU leaders are now into their 4th day of talks about how much money Member States will get to help them over the economic crisis caused by the pandemic, and
Firefighter dies in Leiria – second fatality in grim week
A second firefighter in a grim week of emergencies throughout the country died yesterday after three hours of ‘aftermath vigilance’ New father Filipe André Pedrosa, 34, was part of a
Dozens of ‘rescued’ cats and dogs burnt alive in shelter horror: “No one opened the pens”
Dozens of ‘rescued ’ dogs and cats, were burnt alive last night in two shelters caught in the path of a wildfire in Santo Tirso (Porto district). Reports say shelter
Airport Covid-testing programme “isn’t working”
Portugal’s airport covid-testing programme “isn’t working”: meaning unchecked passengers are arriving in Portugal from high-risk areas and being waived on their way. This is the gist of an exclusive story
“Crunch summit” hits skids in Brussels for second day running, and tries ‘unscheduled Sunday’
Friday’s talks ended in ‘deadlock’ and Saturday’s appear to have too. The so-called ‘crunch EU summit’ to thrash out a post-coronavirus recovery package for Member States has failed to reach
What if…the UK were to revoke Spain’s airbridge?
With the country pinning its hopes on a reprieve for Portugal from the UK travel ‘blacklist’, we’re missing what’s going on next door in Spain – one of the many
Fatal fortnight: Beginning of July registers 673 ‘more deaths’ than same time last year
The first fortnight of July has seen 673 more deaths than during the same period last year – and they weren’t directly down to Covid-19. Put another way, some of