Fighting chance
Portimonense enjoyed a comfortable 2-0 home success over Beira-Mar in the first of two league matches played out within the space of six days. A sparse midweek crowd at the
Choppy sea rescue off Algarve coast
Maritime rescue services scrambled in rough seas last Saturday to rescue an Ethiopian seaman off a chemical carrier, 75 kilometres west of Cape St Vincent. The distress call came in
Lagoa father runs over son’s classmate
A father in Lagoa is being investigated for having run down one of his son’s classmates. GNR police are trying to determine whether the running over was intentional or just
Olive heist
GNR police in the Alentejo have mounted an operation entitled ‘Operação Azeitona Segura’ (Safe Olive Operation), and have already made two ‘good arrests’. Last week’s involved a young man and
Naked rage?
A 44-year-old man stripped off all his clothes after the jeep he was driving hit as many as 13 cars on the A5 near Oeiras, and then catapulted to a
Metal bonanza
Thieves had a metal-stealing bonanza from a farm property in Alpedrinha, Fundão. As much as €13,000 worth of ‘non-precious’ metal was stolen from the farm and, according to initial reports,
Covilhã paedophile
A baker’s assistant aged 22 has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting young girls as they came out of school. The young man was seen approaching a 13-year-old girl in
Thousands march as union vows to ‘show red card’ to Europe
Thousands of Portuguese took to the streets of over 20 towns and cities on Saturday, February 1, demanding an end to the coalition government’s austerity measures and calling for a
Conflicting reports over government asbestos building
A government office building is believed to contain potentially dangerous asbestos in its partition walls – 19 of the 70 permanent staff have contracted cancer and nine have already died.
An end to Portimão Urbis?
Around 150 jobs hang in the balance but the situation is “untenable”. “There have to be changes,” mayoress Isilda Gomes was talking about Portimão Urbis, the beleaguered municipal company set