Nuisance neighbour
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A disorientated drunk in Holland could not understand why the key to his house would not work and when he managed to break in, he realised
Passionate kiss
By: ELOISE WALTON features@algarveresident.com A SELF-professed art lover stood trial on Tuesday accused of damaging a two million dollar painting in Marseille, France, by kissing it while wearing red lipstick.
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
The right place at the right time
By MARGARET BROWN features@algarveresident.com Margaret Brown is one of the Algarve Resident’s longest standing contributors and has lived in the Algarve for more than 20 years. Dining out has become
Collector’s fair
features@algarveresident.com A CLASSIC car and collectors fair is due to take place in Penamacor, in the Beira Baixa region between September 20 and 21. This event, held in the village
Detention for saving the day
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A TEENAGER in the US, who stopped an out of control school bus last week, was later rewarded with detention. Amanda Rouse, aged 15, was sitting
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