Lagos hospital closure fears
The Regional Health Administration (ARS) of the Algarve has guaranteed that Lagos Hospital will keep all its wards open. The pledge comes after unions publicly voiced concerns about the eventual
The road to Athens – The Ancient ‘Games’
Looking back to 2,800 years ago, competitors such as Eddy ‘The Eagle’ Edwards or Sydney’s slowest swimmer ever (from Tonga) would have had little chance of survival, let alone public
Let the games begin!
Everything you ever wanted to know about this month’s Olympic Games… Impress your friends with our facts and figures about the XXVIII Summer Olympic Games. · Greece was the birthplace
Tropical Algarve
This weekend, the Algarve will host the first ever Caribbean festival to be held in Portugal. Festa Caribe 2004 is being run by veteran Caribbean festival organiser Christoph Höver, along
Light and life
A new exhibition by local artist Jessica Dunn begins tomorrow (August 14) at 6pm, in the Galeria de Arte da Praça do Mar, in Quarteira. Critics have described Jessica’s latest
Unbreakable competitions
The winners of our two recent readers’ offer competitions have been pulled from The Resident prize draw. We have had a great response from readers wanting to win the fabulous
Model turned artist
STARTING UP: The best and the brightest businesses in the Algarve. Anouk Pascale grew up in Hazel Grove, Cheshire, and after graduating from Manchester University moved to the Algarve to
US embassy bomb scare
High pitched sirens rang out for 20 minutes inside the American Embassy in Lisbon recently, but the bomb alert turned out to be a false alarm. The cause of the
Oil plant burns in mystery fire
Beaches near Matosinhos, about 20 kilometres north of Porto, were evacuated as a fire at an offshore oil terminal in northern Portugal raged for hours before being contained by firefighters.
Western Algarve target
Information from the British Secret Service, MI6, suggests that the Al-Qaeda terrorist network could be preparing to attack merchant navy ships and that Cabo São Vicente in the Algarve is