Algarve

Following the success of last years Shoebox Drive for the Elderly, another shoebox drive has been organised for Christmas 2006. Castelos dos Sonhos, a registered charity, who help more than 200

By RUTH SHARPE ruth@portugalresident.com EVERY EXPATRIATE who has relocated to the Algarve has been through, or is currently going through, the task of learning Portuguese. When Sheila Watts’ book, Practical

BY CAROLINE CUNHA caroline@portugalresident.com TESCO, the UK’s leading supermarket group, has its sights set on Portugal as part of its ongoing expansion plans, The Resident learned this week. It is

An English tourist was raped in the villa where she was staying in the luxury resort of Vale do Lobo. The suspected rapist was apprehended by the Faro Judicial Police

By NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com At first glance, The International School of the Algarve (TISotA) in Porches seems like any other school in the Algarve, but things are not as they

FOR NEARLY 10 years there have been plans to construct a high security prison in the Algarve in São Bartolomeu de Messines (Silves). However, the national government is still reluctant

By RUTH SHARPE ruth@portugalresident.com REMEMBER 2001 when we were trying to figure out why our favourite beach bars were forced to undergo major renovation works? Five years on, it appears

By CAROLINE CUNHA caroline@portugalresident.com THE ALGARVE’S first breast screening programme, launched last September by the Associação Oncológica do Algarve (AOA), the Algarve Oncology Association in conjunction with the Algarve University

The children of Alcantarilha Primary School need five old, but useable, computer monitors to enable them to use the computers they have been given by a Dutch hospital. Your old

A FUNDraising dinner dance in aid of the Bombeiros Voluntárias de Silves, held on September 29 at Restaurant Ponte Romana in Silves, raised 1,465 euros. The organisers, Angela and Ray,