APAA faces difficult challenge
Over 80 people celebrated at the APAA’s (Associação de Protecção Animal do Algarve) recent World Animal Day party. The association, which is linked with the UK’s RSPCA (Royal Society for
International comic festival
Amadora is currently “the international meeting point” for fans of comic stories, according to the organisers of the fifteenth International Amadora Comic Festival (Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada de Amadora).
Wild horses
Following Stanley Leisure’s failure to acquire the right to take bets on the Euro 2004 Championships in Portugal, the Minister of Agriculture is planning to push ahead with the legalisation
Autumn theatre
For the seventh year running, Portimão is staging an Outono do Teatro (Autumn Theatre) festival between October 22 and November 14. Throughout the festival, the city will play host to
Jim Player annual golf tourney
The popular annual ‘Jim Player Golf Tourney’ was held recently on behalf of Commercial Union and Victoria Seguros. This is the twelfth year for the golfers, some of whom have
‘Discrimination’ impedes new team
Algarve United Football Club have now played their first game of the season against Faro based 11 Esperanças and won 1 – 3. But in what members of the team
Book events
Two new books are being showcased at two events this week. The first is being held by the Griffin Bookshop today (Friday, October 29), between 11.30am and 1pm. The second
Keeping alive the rumour of God
The Reverend Michael Bullock believes that Portugal is a much more positive place than it used to be. He feels that there is a real sense that the country has
‘Successful beyond my wildest dreams’
With over 265 stalls and 7,000 visitors, AFPOP’s recent Better Living in Portugal (BLiP) exhibition was so much bigger than in previous years, we didn’t have space to do it
BPCC networking event
The British-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (BPCC) held a drinks evening at Lisbon’s Blues Café, in Alcântara, recently. The event was well-attended by the Portuguese and British business community, as well