Piglets for sale!
Thursday, September 8 Many of you will not need reminding of our lamentable history with rabbit breeding. Despite three years of diligent indulgence, no kittens produced have survived long enough
The ABC of A-Day (part 2)
By BILL BLEVINS SIPP – the pension for the sophisticated investor LAST WEEK’S article covered many of the far reaching reforms in UK pension legislation due to come into effect
Enjoy a traditional family reunion this Christmas
Thomsonfly.com, the low fares airline operating from Faro, makes it easy for you to fly back to the UK this festive season, to spend Christmas and New Year with your
Lightening batters the Balearics
FREAK WEATHER in the Mediterranean recently produced one of the most violent thunderstorms ever seen in the Balearics. Experts recorded 2,225 lightening strikes across Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza, a situation
Repellents get recognition
FOR YEARS, the only scientifically proven way to ward off mosquitoes was to use an insect repellent containing the chemical compound DEET (diethyl toluamide). But, the pesticide has long been
Female incontinence problems
By DR THOMAS KAISER IT’S NOT only the elderly who suffer, younger women also experience urine incontinence (an involuntarily loss of urine) and often find it a very difficult subject
Offshore accounts’ 30-day tax warning
By JOHN WESTWOOD UK Inland Revenue is now taking action THE UK government has sent 500 letters to holders of offshore bank accounts, reminding them that income from interest needs
Doing business in Portugal
SOME SAY that she eats, sleeps and breathes taxes and, after speaking to Dra Filomena Ramilo, a very well known chartered accountant and tax adviser based in Sintra, with an
BA food is back on track
FOLLOWING SUMMER’S industrial action over sacked food preparation workers, British Airway’s catering problems continue to improve. According to reports, all long haul flights have now returned to normal, with the
A policeman’s lot
ACCORDING TO a song in light opera written by Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one. This is still probably true in the 21st century.