Algarve

A GIANT Portuguese Christmas cake, the Bolo Rei, was offered to 5,000 passers-by in Quarteira’s Rua Vasco da Gama last Saturday. Measuring 200 metres in length and weighing a total

POLICE ARRESTED three Britons aboard a fishing boat 77 miles off Cape St. Vincent (Sagres), attempting to smuggle ashore a large quantity of hashish at the end of last week.

A BRAZILIAN prostitute from Viseu (central Portugal), who is thought to have had unprotected sex with more than a thousand clients, died of Aids recently. This has spread panic among

AFTER BEING robbed at knifepoint eight days earlier, a man in Almancil recognised his attacker cycling past the paper shop where he worked. The sighting, which he immediately reported to

FOR THE second consecutive year, a unique event in Portugal will take place in Quarteira – the cutting of a giant Bolo Rei, the Portuguese Christmas cake. On Saturday, December

A NEW medical centre specialising in the treatment of muscular problems and recovery from injuries is scheduled to open in São Brás de Alportel in September 2006, according to a

INSPECTORS INVOLVED in the investigation of the Joana case have chosen to withdraw their defamation of character complaint against Leonor Cipriano, who accused them of physical assault during interrogation. The

FOLLOWING A tradition of some years, Hotel Montechoro in Albufeira has, once again, conjured up a full programme of festivities to celebrate the New Year. As well as a special

FIRST LADY Maria José Ritta, wife of Portugal’s President Jorge Sampaio, visited São Brás de Alportel recently to inaugurate a new education centre in Rua 5 de Outubro. Composed of

ALBUFEIRA’S NEW Year party at Fishermen’s Beach (Praia dos Pescadores) will cost the council a lot less this year. According to a report in Barlavento newspaper, the investment by the