Lynx centre seeks volunteers
It will be a fantastic opportunity to see first-hand how the Iberian Lynx is being brought back from extinction. Silves’ Centro Nacional de Reprodução de Lince Ibérico is looking for
Portuguese migration ‘at crunch point’
As more and more Portuguese flee their home country, experts agree that the situation has reached crunch-point. Since the start of the crisis, more than 400,000 working men and women
Two dead and six missing in fishing disaster (Update)
Two fishermen – one Portuguese and one Spaniard – have been confirmed dead while five others are still missing in the ongoing rescue operation in Asturias following the sinking of
More heartache for family of kidnapped baby Daniel
Found safe and well in January after a 70-hour kidnap ordeal, baby Daniel Abreu is once again in the news – this time because of his elder sister, three-year-old Mariana.
Drama in Monchique as crane crashes through house roof
Two agricultural workers in Monchique were hurt, one seriously, when a crane they were using crashed suddenly through the roof of a nearby house. The accident happened as the workers
Five Algarve boroughs running “very high” fire risk
Despite all the bad winter weather, no sooner did the sun come out this week than authorities were warning of “very high” fire risks in five Algarve boroughs. According to
Taxman seizes 123,000 homes and sends out 9.1 million notices
Despite widespread closures of tax offices up and down the country, the taxman is on a roll. “Coercive seizures”, as they are called in Portugal, went through the roof in
Europe’s answer to T-Rex sees scientists looking seriously at Lisbon
Palaeontologists are honing in on the area around Lisbon after the momentous discovery, quite by chance, of an impressive new species of meat-eating dinosaur, almost as big, bad and ugly
Two dead and six missing in fishing disaster
Two fishermen have been confirmed dead and seven are still missing in an ongoing rescue operation in Asturias following the mysterious sinking of Portuguese fishing boat Santa Ana. The boat,
Portuguese insurers rapped after “agony” caused to British family
Insurance company Ocidental S.A. suffered an embarrassing defeat in the British High Court last week when a judge ruled that an horrific accident in which a British couple was mown