Home of woman found buried in garden raided by thieves
The Algarve home of 72-year-old Brenda Davidson – the woman whose partner remains behind bars charged with her brutal murder – was raided shortly after her belated funeral last week.
Mystery over missing millions as notorious German kidnapper identified as falling to his death from Algarve cliff
German tabloid Bild-Zeitung has revealed that police have been keeping the body of a notorious German kidnapper known as “Fat Faruk” in the fridge of a Portuguese morgue as they
ARS Algarve announces home-based palliative care service for Western Algarve
The Algarve’s health authority (ARS Algarve) has announced a new service to provide home-based palliative care for people affected by life-limiting illnesses in the Western Algarve. It consists of a
Turismo de Portugal spends €35000 on a selfie machine…
Quizzed as to the reasoning behind Turismo de Portugal’s decision to spend €35,000 on a machine that takes selfies, the firm who closed the deal explained this is not just
Football fan after fall from the stands during last weekend’s Sporting-Benfica match
Félix Martens, the 20-year-old football fan who fell from the stands during last weekend’s Sporting-Benfica match, is being treated at Faro Hospital. Martens was taken to Santa Maria Hospital in
Portugal “origin and destination for human trafficking”
The grim reality that Portugal is a country of “transition, origin and destination for human trafficking” was affirmed this week in a radio interview with the president of the commission
School workers announce strike for February 20
Just as the country’s schools are due to return from the weekend’s Carnaval break, school staff have declared a one-day strike for next Friday (February 20). At issue is the
Novo Banco contradicts Bank of Portugal, sending €527 million down the swanny
Contrary to what Bank of Portugal boss Carlos Costa promised investors, there is “no legal obligation” for any of the money invested in bonds in Grupo Espírito Santo to be
Portugal ready to jump the gun over bailout pay-back
As she announced last month, Finance Minister Maria Luís Albuquerque is preparing to pay back some of Portugal’s bailout money ahead of time. The plan to pay the IMF €14
OECD predicts deceleration in Portugal’s economic recovery
New data has prompted the OECD to ‘anticipate a deceleration in the improvement of economic activity in Portugal’ reports Expresso. This “inflexion”, as it has been described, will continue for