Understanding eight to 12-year-olds
By: ANDREA CLIFFORD-POSTON features@algarveresident.com Andrea Clifford-Poston is an educational psychotherapist and author of Tweens: What to Expect From and How to Survive Your Child’s Pre-Teenage Years (published by Oneworld) and
World tour of the Alentejo
By: MARGARET BROWN
Baby gender test at six weeks
WOMEN IN Britain can discover the gender of their unborn baby just six weeks into their pregnancy with DNA testing kits, a firm has claimed. The kits are going on
Favas favoured in winter
By: PAUL McKAY features@algarveresident.com Many years ago, November arrived and in absolute panic I went running to my neighbours to ask what I should be planting. I had spent all
Great escape
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A GERMAN woman managed to escape from prison last Friday by hiding in a friend’s suitcase. The inmate hid inside the large case when her 17-year-old
Lottery cheat
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com A LOTTERY ticket vendor in China has been jailed for life for taking advantage of a system flaw to cash 28 million yuan (2.5 million euros)
Mexican wave
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com THREE UNDERAGE Mexicans were arrested on a remote highway in California, US, on suspicion of drug smuggling. The officer handcuffed the trio and put them into
Primal hygiene
By: NATASHA SMITH features@algarveresident.com EVIDENCE HAS been uncovered in Spain that could prove that Neanderthals brushed their teeth! Two molars, which date back 63,400 years, had grooves formed by the
Knicker nicker nicked
A former mayor of a Lancashire village has been jailed for two years after being found guilty of four charges of burglary. It emerged that the 59-year old bachelor had
The chips are down
From haute cuisine to burger and chips, the head chef at a restaurant in Oxfordshire, UK, has thrown in his apron after the owner decided to change the menu from