Algarve Orchestra starts 2024 with a bang
Conducted by Maestro Dinis Sousa, the Orquestra do Algarve is putting on an unmissableperformance in Lagoa on January 27. The Orquestra do Algarve is performing in Lagoa for the first
Portugal opts to extend free Covid/ flu vaccines to 18-59 year olds
Up till now, deaths this winter from Covid have barely been mentioned Portugal’s DGS health authority has come up with a new strategy designed to help combat the number of
Portimão accident leaves one dead and three injured
The head-on collision happened shortly before 07h00 this morning on the EN125 stretch between Portimão Hospital and the new bridge. One person has died, and three people were injured this
Campaign launched for families to foster children at risk
There are currently 300 children under the age of 6 in Portugal “waiting for a foster family”. These are ‘children at risk’, removed from their birth families by the courts.
School community in shock as pupil dies following lacerations from glass door
A school community in Seia is in shock today, with classes suspended, following the horrific death of a 16 year old student yesterday. Mariana Cruz suffered fatal lacerations after hitting
Experience as minister “not one of the best”, admits Costa Silva
António Costa Silva came into Portugal’s government from ‘big business’ – big oil business to be exact. His brief, at the ministry of economy and sea, was ‘bigged up’; people
More babies born in Portugal but birthrate still “very low”
More babies were born in Portugal last year than in 2022, but still the numbers are “very low”. This is the bottom line of data emerging from the ‘footprick test’,
Tender for high-speed TGV between Lisbon and Porto launched
At the 11th hour (to qualify for European funding) the outgoing government has launched the tender for the highly controversial high-speed TGV rail link between Lisbon and Porto. The project
Man arrested for multiple crimes in Portimão
A 27-year-old man has been arrested by PSP police in Portimão and is being held in preventive custody for multiple crimes of theft and robbery, the Public Prosecutor’s Office in
Taylor Swift swells hotel bookings in Lisbon
Lisbon hotels are all registered a “generalised increase in bookings” over the days in May (24 and 25) when American singer songwriter Taylor Swift will be performing in concerts at