40,000 + screened
BY SEPTEMBER 2007 this year, 41,397 women aged between 50 and 65-years-old from the Algarve’s 16 boroughs will have taken part in the breast cancer screening programme launched in September
A song for Madeleine
When you are an ordinary person, knowing how to express your support for Madeleine and her parents is very difficult. However, when you have a talent sometimes it can be used
All off again
THE ALLGARVE campaign launch, scheduled to take place in Vilamoura last Saturday, was called off by the national tourism authority, Turismo de Portugal. According to a press statement, Turismo de
Allgarve launch delayed
AS PREDICTED in The Resident, the Allgarve tourism campaign, due to be launched in London on Wednesday May 16, has been postponed. Chelsea Football Club Manager, José Mourinho, and Manchester
Ambassador in Albufeira
THE AMBASSADOR for Holland, Robert Jan Van Houtum, visited Albufeira recently, where he was received by the President of Albufeira Câmara, Desidério Silva. Issues relevant to both countries were discussed.
Bookshop news
A BOOK signing will be held at Magna Carta Bookshop in Alvor with the author of Sweet Teeth and Loose Bowels, Dr Michael S Berger, on Saturday, May 26, from
Briton still in coma
A 72-year-old British man injured following a parking dispute remains in a coma on a life support machine at Lisbon’s São José hospital. An altercation is said to have taken
Child snatched in Malaga
PORTUGAL’S POLÍCIA de Seguranca Pública (PSP) recovered an 11-year-old girl in Vila Real Santo António on May 19 after she was allegedly kidnapped in the early hours of the morning
Cinemas in decline
CINEMA AUDIENCES in Portugal are declining. The country’s picture houses attracted 5,169,304 visitors in the first four months of 2007, a fall, on average, of 1,063 cinemagoers per day compared
Cold drug
A WOMAN was arrested in Tajikistan for attempting to smuggle heroin in a refrigerator, using the express mail service, DHL. Suspicions were raised when the fridge, which was destined for