Portimonense: festive hangover
Close to 500 Portimonense fans including a 20-strong expat contingent from the Alvor Dog House pub made the trip to Faro to help swell a season-record 3,000 crowd attending the
Albufeira cuts €18 million worth of debt
Albufeira municipal authority has announced that it has cut €18 million from its debt in the past year-and-a-half, due mostly to reduced loans from the PAEL programme and the cancellation
‘João’ and ‘Maria’ still most popular
João is the most popular name chosen for baby boys baptised in 2013. Data from the births registry shows that the well-worn name of six of the nation’s kings –
Golden visas bring golden investment
Deputy Prime Minister Paulo Portas commented at the weekend that the 471 golden visas that have already been awarded have “far exceeded the programme’s initial objectives”, translating into a €306-million
Holland to fine-tune World Cup tactics in the Algarve
The Algarve has yet again been chosen to host the Dutch football team for a week-long training session before a main international competition. According to Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, the
Recycle containers-for-food campaign
It’s a new campaign designed to encourage everyone to hand in drinks cartons, tins and containers which will then be ‘converted’ into food for the under-threes. Organised by Algar, the
Church charity outraged by sexy calendar
Well-meaning firefighters from Setúbal thought they were stripping off for a good cause when they posed for photos for a cheeky calendar, but their sculpted torsos were just a little
Heroes praised in Monchique heli-disaster report
Monchique woodmen who rushed to the aid of the crew flying in a helicopter that crashed in Marmelete just before Christmas have been hailed as heroes. Their bravery and quick
Reward offered over monument vandalism
A fire chief in the castle-town district of Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro, is offering a €5,000 reward, from his own pocket, for information leading to the detention of vandals
Emotion in Loulé at Meco student burial
Hundreds of people, many of them fellow university students dressed in their traditional flowing black gowns, thronged the streets of Loulé last Saturday to bid a final goodbye to 21-year-old