Portugal's Air Force “at breaking point”
Defence Minister Aguiar-Branco faces an uncomfortable meeting on Wednesday (June 25) when the predictions of Air Force chief Araújo Pinheiro look like coming home to roost. Pinheiro warned months ago
Artist risks three years in jail over winning installation
The Portuguese take their flag incredibly seriously. Nonetheless, President Cavaco Silva got away with hoisting it upside down at a state ceremony two years ago. Only just … the PR
Missing Baby Daniel shock: “The mother did it!”
Months after the country was assailed by photos of Baby Daniel – the angel-faced infant who went missing on the island of Madeira for three long cold nights in January
One dead and another missing in Lagoa explosion
UPDATE: An elderly foreign resident has been killed and another is still missing in a huge gas explosion that rocked the Caramujeira/Vale Rei area of Lagoa in the early hours
Portimão’s ‘Vai e Vem’ bus service at risk of being scrapped
Debts || As the cash-strapped borough council desperately tries to maintain services, a new setback threatens to bring an end to the town’s ‘Vai e Vem’ city bus link. According
Containers to serve as Faro’s ‘Palace of Justice’
It’s almost an allegory for the country. Faro’s grandiose-sounding ‘Palace of Justice’ is poised to start operating out of a set of containers located near the municipal swimming baths. The
Government blames baby lull on employment agreements
Pregnancy || An increasingly desperate government has now called for whistleblowers in its attempts to boost the country’s plummeting birth rate. The reason, newspapers reveal, is that there are apparently
Jailed GNR gets support of online petition
Meantime, there is good news for the Loures cop jailed for nine years for killing a child in a police chase. Hugo Ernano was jailed last year – and ordered
GNR resorts to gang burglary for extra cash
Following the unusual case of a uniformed police officer resorting to public striptease in order to earn extra money, we hear of another who has led a series of daylight
Husband run over by son, after killing wife. Domestic violence increases
Homicide || A family drama of horrific proportions played out in Soure this week, leaving a woman dead and her estranged husband fighting for his life in hospital. The horror