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By ALEX RAE features@algarveresident.com Alex Rae is Operations Director of British based company Tonic Underwriting, which offers specialist home insurance for anybody owning or occupying property in countries such as

A British pensioner aims to break her own record for world’s oldest abseiler by throwing herself from the top of a public building on her 96th birthday. Doris Long, 95,

By BARRIE MAHONEY features@algarveresident.com Barrie Mahoney was a teacher, headteacher and school inspector in the UK, as well as a reporter in Spain, before moving to the Canary Islands as

By JUNE LOVER features@algarveresident.com After 35 years in the TV and film industry, June Lover retired to the Algarve in 2006.  Having owned a holiday property here for 12 years she

An elderly British couple have been told that their umbrella stand is, in fact, a lost Chinese vase, worth more than their house. The vase, which has been valued at

A team of international scientists have discovered that one of the world’s best preserved dinosaurs was ginger. The team, led by Professor Mike Benton, a Palaeontologist from Bristol University revealed

A cake maker in Britain has launched a range of edible chocolate shoes, which are flying off shop shelves in the UK, after she discovered a vintage chocolate shoe mould

Hotel operator Holiday Inn was due to offer clients a free five minute bed warming service at its London Kensington hotel this week. If requested, a willing member of hotel

A survey carried out by market research companies OnePoll and YoungPoll has revealed that some teenagers believe that oats grow on trees and bacon comes from sheep. Many youngsters who