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Thorough clean
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com A SPATE of thefts in a retirement home prompted a 95-year-old German woman to set a trap to catch the elusive lawbreaker. She left money out
London weekends, Algarve skies
By: Paul McKay Contact: mckay@portugalresident.com THIS WEEK, London basked in an Algarvean spring. The sun emerged early in the morning, shone brightly for most of the day, offering blue skies
Snake search
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com ONE OF the leading search engines, Google, had their fair share of trouble when they could not find a three-foot python called Kaiser, after it escaped
Record breaker
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com ELSIE MCLEAN has become the oldest golfer to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course. The 102-year-old thought that she had lost her ball on a
Caribbean cricket bargains
Sponsored by PDM Travel pdm@portugalresident.com THE PRICES of Caribbean holidays are being cut dramatically because hoteliers are struggling to fill their properties during the Cricket World Cup, due to the
Plane curse
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com NORTHWEST AIRLINES, in the US, cancelled a flight after the pilot cursed at a passenger. The pilot was confronted after he had been swearing loudly in
Dirt Slingling
By: Natasha Smith natasha@portugalresident.com AN ELEMENTARY school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing excrement on a child in Toronto, Canada. Maria Pantalone was charged with assaulting two children but only
South Africa’s finest export
By: Maurice Lee invinoveritas@portugalresident.com If you look at the history of wine, you will see that almost every wine producing country in the world has experienced some sort of disaster.
Life’s special (and not so special) situations
By: Dennis Swing Greene