Portugal “evaluating” Spain’s warning against consumption of tuna and swordfish for pregnant women and children
Portugal is said to be at the final stages of evaluating whether Spain’s warning against the consumption of swordfish and tuna for pregnant women and children should be sounded here.
New call to government to turn its back – once and for all – on plans to drill for gas and oil
Quercus, Portugal’s oldest environmental NGO, is calling on the government to renounce the remaining oil and gas drilling concessions still active in central Portugal. A contract with Australis Oil &
Police mount “largest demo of all time” today in Lisbon
Thousands of police from all over the country are converging on Lisbon today for“the largest demo of all time”. Organised by Movimento Zero – which formed from police discontent following
Controversy as Lisbon airport announces nighttime closure for runway expansion
A plan to create two rapid-exit taxiways at Lisbon’s Humberto Delgado airport has run headlong into controversy. Environmentalists say the exits imply ‘expansion works’, which by law require an environmental
Leixões port ‘likely’ for Europe’s first lithium refinery
Leixões has been ‘chosen’ by the government as a possible site for Europe’s first lithium refinery. Following on from heavy hints given late last year (click here), secretary of state
Mother who left newborn in rubbish ‘to stay in jail’
A writ of habeas corpus, aimed at winning the release from jail of the young Cape Verdian woman who abandoned her newborn son in a recycling bin (click here), has
Heartbreak as 50 families face eviction to make way for new dam
Heartbreak among 50 families due to be forced from their homes to make way for a new hydroelectric dam has seen the local council challenge power giant Iberdrola to start
Web Summit “cost €20 million and isn’t what it was”
Lisbon’s Web Summit – Portugal’s major ‘tech event’ taking place every November for the last four years – has somehow lost its ‘punch’. Say reports, it cost Portuguese ratepayers over
Algarve ‘loses only available children’s ambulance’ – vital for ‘critical’ babies and newborns
The Algarve region has ‘lost the only pediatric ambulance it possesses’. Saudeonline (health website) reports that the ambulance had been out of service since last Monday, and is likely to
Dog owner condemned to pay €22,000 in damages to girl bitten on face
A dog owner – who was seated in the open back of a car with his Bull Terrier when the daughter of (former) friends tried to stroke it and was