The gift of hope
By: Margaret Borwn margaret@portugalresident.com IT WAS with heavy hearts we came to Praia de Luz on May 6 for the morning service, knowing that a child had been missing for
Football fury
GERMAN FOOTBALL stars, Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn are due to receive 50,000 euros each in compensation after a sex toy company used their names without permission to sell vibrators.
Bombs away
A SCHOOL in Wimborne, Dorset, was evacuated last week, after a student brought in what he believed was a harmless artefact to show friends. It turned out it was a
Map mischief
FREE MAPS were handed out to people visiting the holy shrine at Fátima, 120km north of Lisbon, at the weekend, with a picture of the Virgin Mary on one side
Drunk driver
A MAN in Germany failed his driving test because he was three times over the legal alcohol limit. His examiner could smell alcohol on him but the man insisted he
Locked up
A DUMB criminal was locked up in a cell at a New Zealand police station – even though he was never arrested! He managed to break into the station and
Unlikely match
SQUIRREL MONKEYS and the world’s largest rodents, capybaras, are living together in a zoo outside Tokyo, Japan. The creatures are both from Brazil but rarely meet and are not usually
Lonely soul
A GERMAN man has been found seven years after he was reported to have died. His decomposed body was discovered in his bed, where an open television guide was found,
Portugal versus UK
By: Paul McKay Contact: mckay@portugalresident.com Sunday April 8 I have just spent my first week back in Portugal Since working in the UK. Incredibly, I am colder here than back
Going for gold at the Olympics
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com WHEN SHE is not at college or spending time with friends, Jessica Dickens is competing against some of the best butterfly swimmers in the world. Since