Algarve

BEVERLEY GIBBONS, owner of Pinetrees Riding Stables in Quinta do Lago, and Rosemary Owen, chairman of the Riding for the Disabled Association, have been helping children and adults with physical,

THE ALGARVE Tourism Board (RTA) has predicted that this summer will experience an increase in tourist activity of around four per cent. This proves that, despite a brief slump, tourism

A FESTIVAL of events to mark the 80th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll is being organised by members of St. Vincent’s Anglican Church. Commencing with pop groups from

LAST WEEK, we offered two lucky readers a chance to win a pair of two-day passes to this year’s Algarve Summer Festival on Saturday, June 17 and Sunday, June 18

THE FIRST English-speaking Rotary Club in Portugal will be officially founded on June 17, in a ceremony beginning at 7.30pm at the Ria Park Hotel, in Vale do Garrão. The

PORTIMÃO MAXMAT, the DIY superstore, received a bomb threat by telephone last week. Within minutes of the alarm being raised, at around 11.40am, customers and staff were safely evacuated outside

A complimentary sterilisation campaign is being offered to dogs in the Aljezur area until August 15. Organised by the Associação Ecologista e Zoófila de Aljezur (AEZA), with great support from

THE TIVOLI Marinotel gardens in Vilamoura will be the setting for the festivities of Santos Populares (Popular Saints) on June 10, from 8pm. Guests can indulge in a large and

Until last year, tourism coming from Germany had been on the decline, but recent data shows that there has been a six per cent increase, with a total of 1.8

THE PEOPLE of Alferce and Fornalha, in Monchique, are very conscious of the problems that the planned line of high-tension electricity pylons will bring to the area. Despite the fact