Big brother’s watching you
DIMINISHING CRIME in the Algarve is the objective of Faro’s Civil Governor António Pina, who has recently announced a project that aims to introduce, from May of this year, video
Counterfeit camera con in the Algarve
IT HAS recently been reported that a scam, involving counterfeit top of the range cameras and watches, is being operated in the Algarve. At first, it appears to be a
Darts – Different Klass!
THE BDO Lakeside World Championships saw the emergence of a gilt edged new talent in 21-year-old Dutch star Jelle Klaasen. While the likes of Andy Fordham dropped away tamely, “the
Diamond Collapse
WE ARE featuring two very different books this week, one popular non-fiction and one fiction. Both are showing signs of being popular sellers. Collapse by Jared Diamond Diamond, a professor
Discuss real estate opportunities with Americans in Portugal
THE AMERICANS in Portugal’s first luncheon meeting of 2006 will be held on Wednesday, January 25, at the Cascais Cultural Centre restaurant, from 12.30pm. The programme will feature a panel
Drugs arrest in Monchique
A 49-YEAR-old German man was arrested in Marmelete, Monchique, after being found with 15 doses of cocaine and 30 grammes of hashish. The man, who was caught by the criminal
England – Swede calamity
Just when all seemed well aboard the good ship England, its commander-in-chief has sailed her perilously close to a treacherous reef, seriously undermining moral on the eve of battle. Head
Film Review – CASANOVA
The love god returns AUSTRALIAN HEATH Ledger plays history’s most famous lothario Casanova – the driven, besotted, seemingly helpless yet graceful Italian lover, who has made the pursuit of women
Following in the footsteps of France’s tragic last queen
• The hamlet reflected the late 18th century romantic taste for everything rustic. It was commissioned in 1780 by Marie Antoinette By Chris Graeme A CAPRICIOUS, frivolous, superficial gambler and
Friday 13 heralded first Oeiras Esoteric Fair
THE FULL Moon on Friday 13 couldn’t have been a better day on which to open a fair devoted to everything psychic and linked to the occult and paranormal. There