Poll results – December 27, 2007 – Illegal Immigrants
The question that was asked: Do you believe the court decision to send the 23 illegal immigrants, who ran aground at Culatra island in Olhão on Monday (December 17), back
Poll results – December 14, 2007 – UK Passaport Services
The question that was asked: In light of the recent amalgamation of UK passport services in Portugal and Spain into one issuing centre based in Madrid, do you believe this
Crossing Portugal’s path
By: PAULO SILVESTRE music@portugalresident.com ONE OF the most important British pop-rock bands of the last two decades, The Charlatans, is coming to Portugal for the first time to perform music
Century old Christmas card received
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A CHRISTMAS card that was sent 93 years ago has finally arrived at its destination in the town of Oberlin, Kansas, in the US. The card,
Peace and tolerance
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com WITH THE release of Gillian Gibbons from a Sudanese jail having served eight days of a short sentence for allowing a school teddy bear to be
Tree blunder
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com RESIDENTS IN Latvia were given permission to cut their own Christmas trees down for free but forest rangers soon chased them away to protect the protected
Not so fat Santa
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A SANTA in Edinburgh, Scotland, has refused to stuff his suit with a pillow because it may promote childhood obesity. The thin Santa said that children
Quiet period before new enquiries
By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com PORTUGUESE POLICE contacted their UK counterparts this week to arrange new interviews with Gerry and Kate McCann and the friends who were with them at Praia
Toilet trauma
A MAN spent nearly four days trapped inside a men’s toilet with no food or mobile phone at a lawn bowling club near the Scottish city of Aberdeen. When the
UK animal protection group in Algarve for neutering project
BRITISH-BASED animal protection group Kismet Account recently carried out its largest stray animal neutering project in the Algarve. A group of unpaid, voluntary, self funding vets, nurses and animal welfare