Portimonense in action
With the start of the new season fast approaching, Portimonense manager Vítor Oliveira has been busy fine-tuning his squad both on and off the pitch. Last week’s friendly with Sheffield
Algarve’s emergency services “bursting at the seams”
With over a million tourists flooding the region for the height of the summer season, accident and emergency services are reported to be ‘bursting at the seams’. A situation witnessed
Portugal’s UN hope fails to deliver
Six months into his tenure as UN secretary general, Portugal’s ‘great white hope’ António Guterres has failed to deliver. This is the “general perception” among foreign correspondents, reports former RTP
Sardine ban ‘won’t see light of day’, government assures
After the shock report published last week recommending Portugal impose a 15-year ban on the fishing of sardines to give stocks time to return to “acceptable levels”, sanity has been
Requests for asylum in Portugal “skyrocket”
With foreigners choosing to come and live in Portugal on the increase (up 2.3% in 2016, compared to the year before), requests for asylum here have also skyrocketed (up 64%),
Killer fire families “consider suing State” over Pedrógão Grande’s ‘litany of failings’
With the number of victims ‘up’ (albeit only by one), families of the men, women and children killed in the fires of Pedrógão Grande in June are reported to be
Mass call to ‘anti-oilers’: this is your chance to be Portugal’s Standing Rock
A mass call is going out to everyone in the Algarve who doesn’t want to see the coastline pitted with oil rigs, and dotted with tankers carrying natural gas to
Wild boar swimming off Loulé beach “rescued” by authorities
With the country in the grip of a ‘plague of wild boar’, one slimline porker was discovered yesterday swimming off a Loulé beach. The 50kg ‘youngster’ was rescued by lifeguards
House price increases in Portugal “almost double European average”
A new report shows house prices in Portugal are increasing at “almost double the European average”. While prices nationally registered growth of 7.9% for the first quarter of 2017, other
Standing ovations as Algarve’s anti-oil mayor vows to “keep on fighting”
Aljezur mayor José Amarelinho received standing ovations this evening as he vowed to “keep on fighting” for his rural borough despite the fact that he faces a court battle to