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More than 60 members of the community attended a crime prevention seminar at the Silves Municipal Library on Wednesday last week. The event, held in English and Portuguese, was organised

By INÊS LOPES ines.lopes@algarveresident.com A motion against the cancellation of the Odiáxere bypass on the EN125 has been passed by Lagos Câmara. The government is being slammed for its uncaring

More than 100 youths from São Brás de Alportel marched against poverty to mark World Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17). Protestors, from the secondary school José Belchior

The head of the Algarve University (UAlg) admitted recently that the educational establishment will not be able to function ‘normally’ or pay staff salaries in 2013, if planned budgetary cuts

A family holiday ended in tragedy when a 40-year-old British woman died in a road accident in full view of her nine-year-old daughter, two nephews and a sister. The victim

A German woman sought by German authorities for tax evasion was remanded upon arrival at Faro Airport last Tuesday (October 16). The 39-year-old was recognised when entering passport control, after

Olhão markets are to be given the status of monument of public interest, following an announcement in the online government publication Diário da República this week. The decision follows a

The municipalities of Faro and Lagos hope to separately raise around €15 million each by selling publicly-owned properties in order to pay their debts. In Faro, the local authority is

A team of 10 officers from the coastal control unit of the GNR swooped on a drug smuggling operation on a beach at Carrapateira, Aljezur, on October 17, and seized