Algarve

SIX COUNCILS in the Algarve have been allocated less funding from the government for 2008. Albufeira, Castro Marim, Lagoa, Lagos, Portimão and Vila Real de Santo António are six of

SAGRES FORTRESS is expected to remain closed to the public until the reconstruction works of the building and its surroundings is concluded. The project has an estimated budget of about

By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com PORTIMÃO IS to lose one of its most infamous characteristics: the smell of sewage. Manuel da Luz, President of Portimão Câmara, told The Resident that agreement

FOLLOWING THE success of last year’s Black Bra Competition, the Association of Literature and Film friends in the Algarve (ALFA) is running its third multimedia competition with a Blue Garden

MORE THAN 35 people attended Network’s meet and greet evening at Cottons restaurant in the Alto Club, in Alvor, last Wednesday (October 24), when The Resident’s Tom Henshaw and Derek

LOCAL AUTHOR Trevor Haywood’s new book, Flesh and Bone, the lives, deaths and funerals of British monarchs, has been published and is now available from the Griffin Bookshop, in Almancil,

UPDATED 15.36 OCTOBER 30 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

By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com THE TRIAL of two French citizens accused of murdering André Le Floch, who was also French, while aboard his trimaran, Intermezzo in August 2006 started Wednesday,

By CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com THREE Dutch tourists had to be rescued from the sea yesterday (Thursday, October 25) at Praia da Ponte Ruíva, a beach with no life guards located

AN ENGLISH man, who unplugged sound cables at two music events in Ferragudo and allegedly attacked the President of the Junta de Freguesia in August (See The Resident August 31),