Portugal

THREE ORGANISATIONS have clubbed together to provide a football pitch at Pirilampos children’s home in Albufeira. The Central Algarve Ladies Luncheon Group, who meet monthly, the Amigos das Crianças and

THE MAYOR of Oeiras, Isaltino Morais, has had his holiday house in the Algarve repossessed by the Ministério Público, the public ministry. The villa, in Altura in Castro Marim, was

It’s time for BLiP The 2006 Better Living in Portugal exhibition (BLiP) will be held at the Parque das Feiras (ExpoArade) site in Portimão on October 14 and 15. The

Four female Javan Langurs have arrived at Omega Parque in Monchique and have successfully integrated with the four already there. A natural group has now been formed with one dominant

SOME OF the best riders in the world are currently taking part in the Seventh International Show Jumping Championship of Portimão, at the Centro Hipico de Belmonte. The event continues

THE real stars of Scruffts are undoubtedly four-legged, but this year’s event, on October 1 also features a couple of well-known human faces. Jo Wheeler, Sky TV weather presenter, opens

NINE TOWNS in the Algarve are shutting down major roads on Friday (September 22), as part of the European Commission-financed In town, without my car scheme. The car free day

By Natasha Smith and Ruth Sharpe natasha@portugalresident.com A GROUP of residents who went to the aid of a distressed horse were accused by its owner of theft of a rope

THE BIRTHRATE in the Algarve continues to rise, according to statistics for 2005 released by the Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE). Portugal’s national institute for statistics registered 4,950 births in the region last year,

Natural healers Douglas Ballard and Sharon Wise will be back in the Algarve at the beginning of October for two weeks, working from a number of locations across the region.