Algarve

SURF IS up in the skies above Portimão this weekend as the Algarve hosts the first leg of both the SkySurf Pro Tour 2007 and the VI Portugal SkySurf Cup.

AFTER VARIOUS delays and setbacks, Faro’s new municipal market will finally be opened on February 8, At the time of going to press, the timing and programme for the inauguration

A LACK of administration has been given as the reason behind the maritime police branch at Sagres remaining empty for more than two years. Officers, who were originally assigned to

PLANS TO close the Portuguese consulate in Seville, Spain are “a colossal strategic error by the Portuguese government” says the leader of the social democrats (PSD) in the Algarve. In

The annual golf tournament at Boavista Golf, Lagos on January 21 raised around 10,000 euros for the Algarve-based animal charity, The Hope Fund. The Hope Fund would like to thank

TWO GOLF events raised more than 2,000 euros for the Algarve branch of the Equipa Canina Resgate do Algarve (ECRA). The organisation was formed as part of an initiative to

LOULÉ MUNICIPAL market is due to open its doors to the public on February 6, following more than two years of renovation and restoration. Fresh food produce, including fish, meat,

AN IMMIGRANT integration and support centre was opened in Lagos on January 27. The Centro Local de Apoio e Integração do Imigrante, which is the seventh to be opened in

THE SNOW Queen ballet, based on the children’s fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen will be performed by the Companhia de Dança do Algarve in Faro on February 3, at 9.30pm.

A RAFFLE was held over the Christmas period, by Food Fayre in Messines, offering a Christmas hamper as first prize and a box of Borleys Pies, donated by Derek Barry.