Building on rural land will not solve housing crisis – experts
Open Letter adds to groundswell of opposition to revised land law In an open letter, more than 600 experts and former political leaders in Portugal have criticised the government’s measure
Bank of Portugal governor to be called to parliament to explain sky-high salaries
Governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, could be ruing the day he ‘refused’ to continue paying the salary of one of his team requisitioned by the government. As
Researchers find unknown 300 million-year-old species of fern
Researchers from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (FCTUC) have discovered a plant fossil in Anadia, in the district of Aveiro, which corresponds to a
Tupperware factory gets ‘a few days reprieve’
The Tupperware factory in Montalvo, Constância (Santarém), has not closed its doors today, as announced, and will continue operating for a few more days to fulfil orders, say reports –
Azores lifts total ban on glyphosate herbicides
The use of glyphosate herbicides in the Azores is now permitted in exceptional situations, four years after it was banned in public spaces, according to a regional legislative decree published
Toxicology reports ordered after ‘inconclusive autopsy’ on golf course death
The death of a former PSD minister, who held posts as a consul in Russia and ‘mediated’ in business deals with China, is still proving something of a mystery. His
Viseu shopping mall suspects hands himself in
The 24-year-old believed to have been the author of the shots fired at people outside Viseu’s Palácio de Gelo shopping mall just after Christmas has handed himself into police. He
Desalination situation: Algarve company outlines obstacles
Project faces “several court cases”; is not slam dunk certainty reports may suggest Following a number of press reports recently suggesting the Algarve desalination plant is going full steam ahead,
Flooding affects hospitals, schools; ambulance ‘swept up in heavy rain’
Telegraph polls fall as central districts pummeled by wind and rain Today is seeing meteorological misery in central and northern Portugal, as the south is also due for downpours later
Increasing numbers of pupils in schools, but many do not learn – report
National Education Councils calls for ‘innovation’ in teaching A report by the National Education Council has confirmed what everyone already knows: there are increasing numbers of pupils in Portugal (the