Algarve

JOSÉ LEONES Lima, a disability protester, will be in the Algarve this month after completing a wheelchair journey across Portugal aimed at highlighting discrimination against the disabled. Sr. Lima, who

Russian airline Transaero is to increase its flights from Faro to Moscow to twice a week. The company has been flying between Faro and Moscow since 2002, with a weekly

Pedal powered kayaks are at the heart of a shop opened last year in Olhão by Lilia Gomes and Steven Newton, called Poder do Sol. The couple sell six different

PORTIMÃO CÂMARA has organised a Chilean ballet evening and an Abba’s greatest hits show at the Municipal Auditorium of Portimão next week. Balochi, a ballet piece inspired by the different

By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com TWO CHILDREN aged 11 and 16 were not allowed to board an easyJet flight from Faro to the UK because they were too young to travel

FIVE COURTS across the Algarve will undergo refurbishment, and the addition of a new hearing room each, before the end of next year, however, the investment has not been met

MUSIC FROM around the world will be played in Sra da Rocha, near Porches, between August 10 and 12 at the Festival Sons do Atlântico. Each day, the festival will

PLANS FOR 10 new luxury hotels in the Algarve have been unveiled by the Prime Minister, José Sócrates, and the Minister for the Economy, Manuel Pinho. The projects, together entitled

The temperature promises to soar in Portimão with the advent of the first Sexy 2007 fair, an international sex fair taking place this month. The event promises to be full

A 37-year-old Ukrainian man was arrested in Lagoa in the early hours of Sunday morning for alleged drink driving and attempting to bribe police officers. Two GNR officers noticed a