New Zoo car parks
Lisbon Câmara has given permission for four new underground car parks to be built close to Lisbon Zoo. The right to use the land has been awarded for a period
Multi-million euro plans for resort
Castro Marim Golf and Country Club, the premier resort at the eastern end of the Algarve, is entering into a phase of rapid growth, with the construction of a further
Almancil’s Oxford candidates
Oxbridge interviews are not easy to achieve, but three students from the Almancil area have done so. Simply to be invited to attend an interview is a prestige in itself.
Orphanage shining bright
Continuing what has now become a tradition, the 2,500 lights on the Christmas tree at the Refúgio Aboim Ascensão orphanage in Faro were officially switched on in a special ceremony
Anglo-French Entente Cordiale centenary
British Ambassador John Buck and French counterpart, Patrick Gautrat, celebrated the centenary of the Entente Cordiale between France and Britain recently. Despite recent disagreements over Iraq, the two nations have
Police capture first ‘international’ criminal
PJ police have announced that they have detained a 50-year-old man in Vila Real de Santo António, via a European detention order, on suspicion of involvement in fraud and forgery
Public throw bombs in Oeiras
A Polícia Judiciária car and a GNR patrol vehicle have both been attacked with molotov cocktails in Porto Salvo, Oeiras, this week and the motive behind the bizarre incidents still
Ria Formosa polluted
Environmental association, GEOTA, has warned that untreated sewage from the Sotavento is pouring into the Ria Formosa and claim that the problem arises in the absence of a proper water
SEF tackles beggars
A senior union delegate from the Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras (SEF) has revealed that his force faces a critical lack of manpower. “There is an enormous shortage of resources
Socialists urge tunnel U-turn
The Socialist Party of Lisbon has presented an alternative proposal to the Marquês tunnel and appealed to Câmara President, Carmona Rodrigues, not to continue with his original plan. The leader