The Cat who had 60 Whiskers
Sponsored by GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com A very different crime series is the one by Lilian Jackson Braun, whose titles invariably begin with “The Cat who …”. The latest (the 29th
The Water’s Lovely
Sponsored by GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com The Water’s Lovely is classic Ruth Rendell and is available at 11 euros. Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then
Enquiry letters delayed
By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com BRITISH POLICE have still not received the enquiry letters prepared by the Portuguese Polícia Judiciária for Gerry and Kate McCann and their friends as part of
King Tut, not King Tat
By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@portugalresident.com Chris Graeme argues that the treasures of Tutankhamun don’t need Disneyland razzmatazz IT’S ALWAYS dangerous when commercial organisations plan and put on an exhibition of antiquities
Crossing Portugal’s path
By: PAULO SILVESTRE music@portugalresident.com ONE OF the most important British pop-rock bands of the last two decades, The Charlatans, is coming to Portugal for the first time to perform music
Poll results – December 14, 2007 – UK Passaport Services
The question that was asked: In light of the recent amalgamation of UK passport services in Portugal and Spain into one issuing centre based in Madrid, do you believe this
Quiet period before new enquiries
By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@portugalresident.com PORTUGUESE POLICE contacted their UK counterparts this week to arrange new interviews with Gerry and Kate McCann and the friends who were with them at Praia
Not so fat Santa
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com A SANTA in Edinburgh, Scotland, has refused to stuff his suit with a pillow because it may promote childhood obesity. The thin Santa said that children
Tree blunder
By: NATASHA SMITH natasha@portugalresident.com RESIDENTS IN Latvia were given permission to cut their own Christmas trees down for free but forest rangers soon chased them away to protect the protected
Peace and tolerance
By: MARGARET BROWN margaret@portugalresident.com WITH THE release of Gillian Gibbons from a Sudanese jail having served eight days of a short sentence for allowing a school teddy bear to be