‘Look before you lipstick’, warns consumer watchdog DECO
Consumer watchdog DECO has analysed 20 brands of ‘hydrating lip balm’ sold at hypermarkets and pharmacies and concluded that 14 of them contain petroleum derivatives and are “potentially damaging” to
Euro weekly update
Angela Merkel warned ahead of the event that the nationalist AfD (blue) party could do well on Sunday, and so it did, taking 12.6% of the vote. Frau Merkel’s CDU/CSU
‘Afinal’, Grange gets yet more money to search for missing Maddie
After all the ‘fears’ that Metropolitan police funding for the search for Madeleine McCann would finally run out, news coming in late yesterday was that it hasn’t. The UK tabloid
America’s valuable Blue Crab found in Guadiana River
The Atlantic Blue Crab, native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico where it is considered a gastronomic delicacy, has been found in the
Teachers “placed far from home” file hundreds of sick notes
The ridiculous situation that sees legions of the country’s teachers “allocated schools over 100 kms from their homes” has resulted in habitual chaos as the school year gets properly underway.
Scorching weather signals end of “critical fire phase”
Still in the grip of scorching weather ‘down south’, Portugal is poised to drastically reduce firefighting cover from tomorrow due to the ‘critical fire phase’ coming to its end. But
Missing Maëlys’ parents launch emotional appeal “for the truth”
In a press conference last night (Thursday), the parents of missing Portuguese-French Maëlys de Araújo made an emotional appeal to jailed suspect Nordahl Lelandais to tell police “what he knows”.
State wants EU to investigate fuel prices in Portugal
The Portuguese government has asked the European Union (EU) to investigate the country’s fuel prices and whether fuel companies are abusing their position in the Portuguese market. The issue centres
“They held guns to everyone’s heads” – the terrifying truth of Thursday’s Quinta raid
The two “girls” and permanent security guard at David Rosas’ raided jewellery store yesterday were given no choice. The four masked men who ‘arrived out of nowhere’ “held guns to
Armed raid at Quinta Shopping nets “unspecified quantity of watches and jewellery”
Four men are “on the run” after a lightening armed raid on a jewellery store in Quinta Shopping, in the golden triangle between the luxury resorts of Quinta do Lago