The seeds of hope
By: Margaret Brown margaret@portugalresident.com DURING THE 40 days of Lent, the Luz Bay end of St.Vincent’s parish has been offering a York Course entitled, Can we build a better World?
Paper trail
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com CONSERVATIONISTS IN China are ensuring that the animal centre they work at is the most environmentally friendly by turning panda poo into paper. The idea came
Bad credit
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A THIEF in Germany used his credit card to try to break into an apartment, but it snapped, leaving part of it on the inside. The
Fiery wine
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com PROSECUTORS CHARGED a man in California, US, with burning down a warehouse containing six million bottles of wine, worth in total between 200 and 250 million
Easy rider
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com IN HOLLAND an elderly man on his bicycle chased a shoplifter after he saw the thief being chased by workers at a supermarket. He crashed his
Croc shock
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com EU OFFICIALS were baffled when they stopped a Palestinian woman at the Gaza-Egypt border and discovered that she had three live crocodiles taped to her stomach.
Marriage scam
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A WOMAN was jailed for six months in Singapore last week for conning a man out of 45,000 US dollars to marry her. She was already
Shooting sun
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A JAPANESE man was so angry that a new apartment building had been constructed next to him and blocking his sunlight that he fired around 12
Talking ‘bout my generation
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com ARGUABLY THE greatest live band ever, The Who has stood the test of time. Famously controversial, the members smashed their instruments on stage and trashed hotel
Temptations over the Easter period
By: Margaret Brown margaret.brown@portugalresident.com WITH SUNDAY, April 8, still two weeks away and Easter eggs in glorious technicolour whichever way you turn, those who have foresworn chocolate during the 40