British rugby players behaving badly
By: ELOISE WALTON eloise@portugalresident.com MEMBERS OF British rugby side London Welsh celebrated their win over the Portuguese national side with some high-spirited antics at Vilamoura marina in the early hours
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
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
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
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
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
West Algarve’s biggest fire
By: CECÍLIA PIRES
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
Rugby kicking coaching
DR DAVE Alred MBE, a leading rugby coach, is due to return to Barringtons Golf and Health Spa in Vale do Lobo with Kicking Coaching Clinics on August 14, 15
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

