Almost 880,000 Portuguese homes consuming water ‘without any public control’
News outlets today have seized on the details in an ERSAR (water regulator) report showing that almost 880,000 Portuguese households ‘consume water without public control’. This essentially means the homes
President rubber-stamps proposal for ‘high performance obstetric centres’
President Marcelo has today ‘enacted the creation of high performance centres in the field of obstetrics and gynecology, hoping that it will allow for systemic and lasting responses and that
Heated exchanges continue to sully already unprecedented presidential campaign
Portugal’s bitter presidential campaign – almost certainly the most bizarre in the country’s history of democracy – shows no sign of calming for the final three weeks of street rallies
Portuguese schools still not protected against health risks posed by asbestos
Twenty years since the European Union outlawed asbestos in buildings – due to the fact that it is responsible for 75% of professional cancers – and Portugal’s schoolchildren are still
Flu: “80% of people admitted into intensive care unvaccinated”
With hospitals struggling to cope with habitual winter demands, flu is back in the headlines with warnings that 80% of people who end up in intensive care in hospitals “have
2025 eases out with president ‘promulgating’ year’s (perhaps) ‘most ridiculous law’
If it isn’t the most ridiculous law passed in parliament this year, it must be close. President Marcelo has today announced, on his official site, that he has promulgated the
Tragic details emerge about British child stabbed to death by mother’s ‘ex’
Further heartbreaking details have emerged about British child Alfie Hallett, 13, stabbed to death by his mother’s ‘ex’ who then went on to ‘commit suicide’ by provoking a gas explosion
Autumn rains see Algarve dams at “best ever levels”
Following the ever-changing predictions, this year’s autumn rains have left dams in the Algarve at their “best ever levels”. Even if it doesn’t rain any more this winter (which is
Portuguese man shot by U.S. immigration agents in raid on outskirts of Baltimore
A Portuguese man ‘living illegally’ in the United States for the last 17 years was shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Christmas Eve after “refusing to stop
PJ police track down 19-year-old German suspected of knifing family to death in Cape Verde
Portugal’s PJ judicial police managed to track down a young German who fled to Lisbon from Cape Verde after allegedly knifing his family to death on Tuesday. In a statement,