Algarve

PORTUGAL has the highest incidence of tuberculosis (TB) cases within the European Union, a British Council-sponsored seminar heard recently. This is because the country has one of the highest rates

THE NEW radiotherapy unit in Faro, that has only become a reality due to the hard work and perseverance of charitable organisation, Associação Oncológica do Algarve (AOA), is now only

SUZI STEINHOFEL, creative director and partner of Atelier do Sul Design Consultants, has been voted Woman of the Year by Network, the association for women in business in the Algarve.

THE FIFTH Algarve Construction Expo, a fair of civil construction and related businesses, is currently taking place in Portimão’s Parque de Feiras e Exposições. Over the course of the last

FATALITIES among children on Portugal’s roads are an alarming eight per month, according to the latest statistics released by the Direcção-Geral de Viação. It also revealed that, between 2003 and

SIX FRIENDS from Almádena, near Luz – Pat Gibbs, Jean Palmer-Hall, Shirley Powell, Lois Rain, Sheila Rapsey and Jacqui Rodrigues – decided to raise money for the Lagos Bombeiros and,

MONDAY, April 11 has been declared World Parkinson’s Day. The illness, characterised by involuntary shaking and progressive physical incapacity, is named after James Parkinson, an English doctor who in 1817

On April 5, Dr. Eberhard Sauer will be giving two different talks in Loulé and Lagoa. Eberhard Sauer read archaeology at the universities of Tubingen, Freiburg and Oxford (Keble College).

Loulé Câmara will stage a number of evenings under the forthcoming dance month (Mês da Dança), in order to mark the 75th anniversary of the Cine-Teatro Louletano. On April 8

AFTER long delays from the câmara, Lagos has finally confirmed that there will be a nudists’ beach in its borough. This Friday (April 1), the beach situated in Meia Praia,