Pioneering Botton-Champalimaud Centre for Pancreatic Cancer officially opens in Lisbon
The promise of an advance, finally, in the treatment and combat of one of the world’s most lethal forms of cancer solidified yesterday with the inauguration of the riverside Botton-Champalimaud
Intense night of vote-counting sees PS ‘win’ overall but suffer humiliating defeat in Lisbon
2021’s municipal elections in Portugal will go down as the moment PS Socialists ‘won’ without being able to ‘shout from the rooftops’. As leader writers have all explained, pre-election polls
Despair as thousands of rowdy young people destroy another weekend’s sleep in downtown Lisbon
Residents and businesses in downtown Lisbon are in despair, due to the continued crowds of late night revellers that descend on the area every weekend, making normal life impossible. The
Chega MP set to appeal court order for an apology
President of Chega, André Ventura, is set to appeal the latest court ruling that says he must indeed apologise to a family he branded publicly as ‘bandits’. This is a
Gunshots and knife attacks leave two dead after yet another problematic weekend in Lisbon
“Deconfinements have brought crowds back into Lisbon at night, and with them the violence has returned”. This is the opening sentence of a report today explaining that in less than
Lying in State: funeral service for Jorge Sampaio to go ahead in Mostério dos Jerónimos tomorrow
The body of Jorge Sampaio is lying in State in Lisbon’s former Royal Picadeiro, now the Coach Museum. This slow process towards his funeral tomorrow allows for members of the
Over 1,000 turn-out in Lisbon to protest against bullfighter who left 18 greyhounds to starve
Over 1,000 people turned out in force yesterday outside Lisbon’s Campo Pequeno bullring to protest against a ‘homage’ to ‘picador’ João Moura – the man who ‘hit the headlines’ last
“Re-open discos!” Exhausted residents and businesses in Lisbon’s Bairro Alto send out appeal
“Re-open discos!” It is no longer just the disco owners and managers themselves pleading with authorities to reopen this seemingly forgotten sector of Portuguese society. Exhausted residents and businesses in
TAP accused of “blocking Portugal’s recovery from pandemic”…
In another characteristic salvo of criticism, Ryanair president Michael O’Leary has returned to ‘TAP bashing’ in Lisbon today – claiming the company’s policy of blocking ‘slots’ at the capital’s airport
Mother who dumped newborn in recycling bin in mid-winter to be ‘pardoned’ from nine year jail sentence
Sara Furtado, the young homeless woman who gave birth to a little boy after hiding her pregnancy – and then dumped the child stark naked in a recycling bin full