Algarve

THE SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC party in the Algarve has denounced the state budget for 2008 because it does not include a new central hospital for the region. The regional branch of the

Gaudiana Run VILA REAL de Santo António and Ayamonte are organising the 16th Ten Miles Crossing of the Guadiana Run. The event is scheduled to start in Avenida Duarte Pacheco,

SPEAKING AT the next central Algarve Network meeting will be Michael Harris on the issue of surviving bankruptcy, at Hotel A Colina in Ludo, Almancil, on November 14, from 12.30pm.

By CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com THE LAWYER representing Corinne Caspar and Thierry Beilly, on trial for the murder of André Le Floch, the French owner of the trimaran Intermezzo, has withdrawn

EXCLUSIVE By MIKE ALMOND mike@portugalresident.com A BRITISH national newspaper editor has admitted that one of his columnists went too far in an article published on Monday attacking the Portuguese police

POLICE IN Vila do Bispo found around a tonne of hashish on a speed boat near Ingrina beach on Friday (October 26). The boat, which appeared to have crashed into

ONE OF the greatest Portuguese novelists of the 19th century, José Maria Eça de Queiroz, will be honoured by university lecturer Dr Ana Luísa Vilela at the Hotel Garbe in

THREE Dutch tourists had to be rescued from the sea on Thursday, October 25, at the Ponta Ruiva beach, between Sagres village and the Sagres Fortress. The location is very

TWO WELL-KNOWN operas will be performed at the Auditório Pedro Ruivo in Faro in November from 9.30pm. The Marriage of Figaro, one of the most famous operas created by Mozart

AN AMBITIOUS new project with nearly one billion euros worth of investment is due to begin in Vilamoura. The project, called Cidade Lacustre by the Lusort group, was announced at