Algarve

MEDITERRANEAN FILM festivals have been held in Montpellier, France, for the last 25 years and in Valencia, Spain, for the last 20 years. Haifa in Israel hosts one such festival

AS PART of the carnival celebrations taking place in Loulé this weekend, the Motoclube de Loulé is staging the 16th Bikers’ Convention of Loulé on February 25 and 26, next

COME ALONG and support the seventh annual Lagoa Bombeiros Dinner/Dance to be held at the Fatacil Restaurant on April 1, at 7.30pm. There will be plenty of good music for

MEMBERS OF social club, CASA, got together and raised over 1,000 euros towards the purchase of winter protective clothing, urgently needed for the Silves Bombeiros. Commandant António Nunes of Silves

EARLIER THIS week, we were alerted to a new, potentially crippling scam involving cheque fraud. A cheque that has been sent abroad by post can be intercepted and scanned. The

VILA REAL de Santo António Câmara is going ahead with the removal of the metallic structures known as cogumelos (mushrooms) from Marquês de Pombal and from other locations in the

IN THE early hours of last Friday morning (February 17), police in the Algarve seized eight tons of cocaine, the largest seizure ever to take place in Portugal and the

PUBLIC RELATIONS and marketing company Intandem Marketing & PR, which has an office in the Algarve, has landed a jumbo contract with Thomsonfly.com, one of the UK’s leading low fare

COMPUTER BUFFS will be excited to hear that the Algarve capital is set to host an information technology fair entitled Al@ngarve 2006, beginning on March 17, at the João de

THE JEWISH Community of Algarve will be celebrating Purim, one of the most joyous festivals in the Jewish calendar, with a tea party on Sunday, March 5. The festival commemorates