Pool work begins
THE FIRST brick of a new swimming pool complex in Mexilhoeira Grande, Portimão was laid last week. Located next to the municipal football ground, the 2.2 million euro pool is
Restaurants close
HEALTH AND safety inspectors working with GNR officers shut down two restaurants in Quarteira last week and arrested two men for possessing illegal weapons. Health and safety infringements were discovered
Tragedy
TWO PORTUGUESE workers died after they fell 30 metres when part of the bridge they worked on collapsed in the northern district of Braga. One died at the scene after
Concealed weapon
DURING A security clampdown at an El Salvador jail, prison guards were surprised to find a hand grenade hidden up an inmate’s rectum. The V40 grenade was part of an
Cuddly buddies
TWO SUMATRAN tiger cubs have made friends with a set of orang-utan twins in an animal hospital at Taman Safari Zoo in Indonesia. After they were abandoned at birth, the
Hairy crime
AUSTRALIAN baggage handler for national airline, Qantas, was imprisoned for more than two-and-a-half years after he was found guilty of 50 counts of an unusual theft. Rodney Lyle Peterson regularly
Swiss invasion
MORE THAN 170 Swiss army soldiers invaded defenceless neighbours Liechtenstein last Wednesday. They marched for two kilometres before they realised they had crossed the border and headed back. The Liechtenstein
A burning issue
By: Philip Bushill-Matthews philip.bushill-matthews@portugalresident.com Philip Bushill-Matthews MEP and Conservative Spokesman for Employment and Social Affairs. THE AMOUNT of waste produced each year in Europe is equivalent to half a tonne
Blue Air lands
PORTUGAL’S FIRST Romanian low-cost airline service, operated by Blue Air, is launching with twice weekly flights from Bucharest to Lisbon. The flights begin on March 25 and will operate out
Bugs and Bernard Matthews
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com THE SPEED with which the Bernard Matthews turkey enterprise was given an all clear after mass culling and disinfection has no equal where notifiable livestock diseases