Garden award

JARDIM VISTA, an Algarve-based landscaping company led by Richard Westcott, has been awarded the Prémio de Jardinería de la Costa del Sol 2007 prize for its design, construction and maintenance

August 1, 2007by Portugal ResidentIn

Bottle tops can help the disabled

By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com PLASTIC BOTTLE tops can help disabled people in Portugal, thanks to a collecting campaign that has been running for several years. The Algarve, with the help

August 1, 2007by Portugal ResidentIn

Religious festival

IGREJA DA Penina, Alvor, will be hosting a religious festival to honour its patron saint, St. Andrew, on August 4, 5, 11 and 12. Included in the festival, organised by

August 1, 2007by Portugal ResidentIn

Television opportunity

POPULAR BRITISH television programme, Wish You Were Here, is looking for people from the UK who came on holiday to Portugal in the 1970s and 1980s and loved it so

August 1, 2007by Portugal ResidentIn

Cities unite

LORD MAYOR of Liverpool, Paul Clark, was in the Algarve at the end of last week for a short visit to Faro. Clark was met by Faro Câmara Vice President

August 1, 2007by Portugal ResidentIn

New luxury project for Algarve

PRIME Minister José Sócrates spent two days in the Algarve with various ministers at the weekend to announce various investments in tourism, health and professional education and to visit the

August 1, 2007by Portugal ResidentIn

Algarve left behind

POLITICIANS AND business people in the Algarve have criticised the central Portuguese government for leaving the region out of important road, rail and transport investment projects. Five years after the

August 1, 2007by Portugal ResidentIn