Algarve

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

OPERATION CHRISTMAS child is part of the Samaritan’s Purse, a registered charity in the UK and America. In 1990, the horrendous pictures of children in Romanian orphanages inspired the creation

WORLD MUSIC Day (October 1) is being celebrated in Lagos next month, with a range of concerts taking place from October 1 to 5, including a piano recital from acclaimed

By CAROLINE CUNHA caroline@portugalresident.com CIMPOR, A Loulé based cement factory in Cerro do Parragil, close to the A22 near Boliqueime, is applying to burn non-hazardous waste at the plant. The

By NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com Builders broke ground as part of a ceremony last week close to the historical village of Cacela Velha in Vila Real de Santo António to mark