Hard ball
Algarve and Portugal No1 Rui Machado is finding life tough amongst the world’s tennis elite. Following his first round exit to eventual finalist Gael Monfils in Doha the 27-year-old lost
Rough cut
Algarve golf pro Ricardo Santos did not enjoy the best of starts on his European Tour debut. The 29-year-old spoilt his five birdies with four bogies on day one of
Jail in Lagos gives artists room for free expression
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Safe investments seminar with Dutch stock trader
Dutch stocktrader Alex Vermogensbank will be at Vale do Lobo on Wednesday, February 1 for a seminar on safe investments in 2012. The free to attend seminar aims to show
Kings of the road
Jussi Utriainen and Marina Kovaleva won the male and female categories of Faro’s Grande Premio dos Reis last weekend. Portuguese runners Jorge Varela and Ana Cabecinha, both in third place,
Smoked sausage festival livens up inland Algarve
Querença village will again be staging the popular annual sausage festival Festa das Chouriças on January 21 and 22. The festival, in honour of St Louis, the patron saint of
Life drawing
A life drawing workshop with Jill Stott will be held on January 28 at the Club de Tavira. The workshop comprises two sessions, from 10am until 12.30pm and then 2pm
State to retain ownership of BPN headquarters
The Angolan bank BIC, which signed a contract to purchase troubled bank BPN in December for €40 million, is to rent the former bank’s Lisbon headquarters from the State for
Looking for improvement
by CHRIS WRIGHT After defeating an AC Milan youth side 1-0 in his first match at the helm, Sergio Conceição was handed a rather tough welcome to life in the
Third Arte Algarve opens
by EMMA BERTENSHAW emma.bertenshaw@theresidentgroup.com A new large exhibition of art works is opening at the old ÚNICA Adega Cooperativa in Lagoa tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm. Exhibiting the works of 32