England team chooses Algarve for pre-World Cup training
VALE DO Lobo has been chosen by the English Football Association as the location for the national team’s training base camp in May, ahead of this summer’s World Cup in
RUGBY UNION – Irish class
THE HEINEKEN Cup quarter-finals produced one of the biggest surprises of the competition so far, with Leinster overrunning holders and three-time winners Toulouse 41-35. The Irish outshone the French side
Faro airport is first choice for Germans over 50
FARO AIRPORT has been chosen by Monorama Touristik and Reise Klub, two German tour operators specialising in travel for the over 50s, to receive more than 9,000 seniors over a
State spends 250 millions euros on science
PORTUGUESE PRIME Minister, José Sócrates, warned that Portugal would end up a third world economy if it didn’t change quickly. Talking in Porto last week on the importance of raising
Food to bring back memories
LAST YEAR, Sara Vasco and Julie Middleton opened Food Fayre in Messines, a shop selling all those things you used to be able to get in your old home country,
West coast beach clean-up
A GROUP of friends from the Algarve Surf School Association are environmentally conscious people, who do more than just think about how we are destroying our planet. They got together
Faro’s Casa dos Rapazes to construct nursery school
FOLLOWING THE success of its new crèche, O Relógio, Faro’s Instituto D. Francisco Gomes, commonly known as Casa dos Rapazes, has laid the first stone for the construction of a
The Anglo-Portuguese experience
ALGARVE PROPERTY Solutions (APS), an Anglo-Portuguese partnership, has opened for business in the Lagos area. Richard Chambers and Sérgio Pereira decided to combine their wealth of experience, built up over
Fire at Tavira courts destroys a dozen case files
A FIRE that is believed to have been started deliberately on Tuesday morning of this week, destroyed paperwork relating to around a dozen cases, that were being stored at Tavira
Thousands of illegal Portuguese immigrants…
Thousands of illegal Portuguese immigrants living in Canada face deportation THE CONSERVATIVE Canadian government has pledged to crack down on thousands of illegal Portuguese immigrants living in Canada. Up to