Special delivery
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com WHEN CUSTOMS officers opened a package from Hong Kong marked “personal clothing”, they were shocked to find around 300 live scorpions and spiders. The insects, which
Sunday sacrilege
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com VANDALS ATTEMPTED to put a stop to Sunday church service across Philadelphia, US, by pouring glue into, and breaking off the keys inside, the locks. At
Cold feet could be costly
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com PEOPLE IN Mexico who walk out on their wedding day will have to pay their jilted partner compensation, if a local congressman’s proposal is passed. Jose
Escape artist
By: NAZLY DEHGANIAZAR features@algarveresident.com AMSTERDAM POLICE say 15 camels, two zebras, llamas and potbellied swine ran off on Monday from a travelling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole
Great deal
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com BUSINESS IS booming for a car dealer in the US state of Missouri after he launched a promotion promising buyers a free handgun or 250 dollar
Space junk
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A FARMER in Australia’s remote northern outback claims to have found what he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites. James
The great escape
By: PAUL MCKAY features@algarveresident.com Teacher, Paul McKay, left London to live a self-sufficient existence in the Monchique hills with his partner Martyn. He keeps an assortment of animals and grows
Visiting the abandoned
By: MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com Margaret Brown is one of The Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. As well as Country Matters,
Why the English are really worried
By: MIKE JOHNSON features@algarveresident.com Mike Johnson is a freelance journalist who worked in the Algarve for more than 20 years. He now lives in Plymouth in the UK and comments
Bath time
features@algarveresident.com NIVEA HAS created a new range of bath and shower care products for daily use. A study by the Rheingold Institute showed women generally take longer in the shower