Algarve drilling licences for oil and gas end today – or do they?
The threat of oil and gas exploration off the Algarve’s west coast should lapse today, with licences extending the rights handed over to GALP and Italian ‘partners in the venture’
Brothers “prefer to live rough” than be separated from beloved animals
The plight of José and Júlio – two adult brothers living ‘rough’ under a ‘flyover’ bridge in Porto – has been highlighted on social media for the heartbreaking reason for
Enjoy the sunshine, ‘depression Gabriel’ is on its way…
You may be lapping up the sunshine this morning but ‘depression Gabriel’ is beating a stormy path to Portugal and promises rain, snow and lots of wind. According to reports,
Doctors ‘across Iberian Peninsular’ call for laws to prohibit alternative therapies
The doctors associations of Spain and Portugal are calling for laws to prohibit alternative therapies. They claim “more and more patients” are suffering “serious situations” as a result of “the
Son of Portuguese involved in Spain’s agonising child rescue drama
While the world has been watching in mounting dismay at attempts to reach Julen, the Spanish tot who fell 80 metres down a narrow well 11 days ago, the son
Grandiose plans for Lisbon’s vital second airport “confused, generic and full of deficiencies”
Just as the government’s State Budget sets out ambitious transport plans – including a billion euro investment at Montijo airbase to create a much-needed overspill airport serving Lisbon – a
BPP’s guilty bankers “pay their way out of jail”
Four years since their trial started, over eight years since the banking fraud was discovered, BPP’s former top men, principally João Rendeiro, Paulo Guichard and Salvador Fezes Vital, have all
Portugal mourns
Portugal mourns More than 720 devastating wildfires in 48-hours. Forty-two deaths. Over 70 men, women and children in hospital. Hundreds of dead animals in burnt-out byres, fields and forests.
Thirteen dead as massive oak tree crashes onto religious festival in Madeira
Thirteen people – among them foreign holidaymakers and one child – were killed on Tuesday as a massive oak tree crashed down onto festival goers at one of Madeira’s most
A nation mourns as fires continue
Saturday June 17 will go down as the day everything collapsed: 64 people burned to death in indescribable agony, or asphyxiated in stultifying heat by thick smoke. Over 160 injured.