MAKE A DIFFERENCE
The Resident is co-ordinating special fundraising events to help the South East Asia tsunami victims. Tonight (Friday) we are having a Grand Auction evening, which will follow a Curry Buffet,
Parties announce election strategies
Pedro Santana Lopes (centre), leader of the Social Democrats Party (PSD), promised that there won’t be tax increases and that value-added tax (IVA) will remain unaltered, highlighting that IRC (tax
Radiotherapy unit to open this spring
The Ministry of Health has finally seen sense and lifted the five-year time constraint on the functioning of the Algarve’s new radiotherapy unit at Vale dos Carneiros in Faro. Following
Ride of the Kings
Now in its 29th year, the national endurance equestrian Ride of the Kings was a two-day event held recently at Barroca d’Alva, near Alcochete, south of the River Tejo. The
Setúbal Peninsula’s cliffs are dangerous
Green party MP, Heloísa Apolónia, is calling for urgent action to stop the collapse of cliffs at Olho de Boi, alongside the River Tejo in Almada and at Sesimbra over
Somewhere by the seaside in England
Actresses Celia Williams and Amanda Booth perform in Deckchairs, a selection of short plays by Jean McConnell, under the direction of Jon Pedersen. The plays all share a common setting
Spanish armada
The transfer window in January meant that Rafael Benitez finally got his man. Real Madrid accepted a nine million euro bid for striker, Fernando Morientes, from Liverpool. The Champion’s League’s
The generation game
My Christmas did not go quite the way it was planned. It should have been very quiet and peaceful, real chill out stuff, with time to sort through mountains of
Top racing yacht christened
In a spectacular christening ceremony, multi-million euro racing yacht, ABN AMRO 1, emerged from the mists of Portimão harbour and slid gracefully over the glassy water to a mooring alongside
U-turn on smoking ban
Restaurants, bars and nightclubs will not become smoke-free zones under the forthcoming anti-smoking legislation, as was previously stated by the Minister for Health, Luís Filipe Pereira, last November. In a