Tax news from the UK(…and it’s not exactly good news!)
Offshore credit cards under investigation ACCORDING TO reports in The Sunday Times and The Financial Times, HM Revenue and Customs is about to force UK credit card providers to hand
Thousands visit first erotic fair
LISBON’S FIRST international erotic and pornography fair, the Salão Internacional Erótico de Lisboa, attracted an estimated 80,000 curious spectators to the FIL exhibition centre, between Thursday and Monday last. With
Traditional arts in Loulé Craftwork Fair
FROM JULY 8 to 17, Loulé will host the 14th annual Craftwork Fair, which is set to take place in the Lago do Palácio da Justiça. About 75 exhibitors are
Understanding tsunamis
ST. DOMINIC’S International School held a Tsunami Day for Year 9 students recently. The Resident joined them on this educational day of understanding tsunamis, their effects and lifesaving techniques. After
Wacky races in Serra de Sintra
SOME OF the world’s most prestigious top-of-the-range coupé and 4×4 cars raced around Cascais and Serra de Sintra recently in the annual Challenge Mix. Organised by car leasing company ALD
Wimbledon
WEEK TWO of the All England Championships finally saw the arrival of the by now traditional sustained periods of rain. It was all too much for the record Russian presence
World Student Games (Schools)
Vila Real de Santo António hosted the first event of this type to be held in Portugal last week, stepping in for the originally chosen venue of Manchester, which encountered
World Press Photo 2005 in Portimão
PORTIMÃO IS hosting the national debut of the most important world exhibition of photojournalism and the biggest national gala of press photography in the Zona Ribeirinha (Portimão waterfront). Portimão Câmara
A new EU agenda
FOR THOSE of us who believe the EU should do less, and do it better, the results of the referenda in France and the Netherlands were simply splendid. The people
A touch of medieval chivalry
TOURISTS AND day-trippers in Sintra were taken back in time over the weekend to the chivalrous days of maidens, knights, jousts and sword fights in the reign of João I.