Health alert over potentially-deadly “time bomb” of food additives in Portugal’s minced meat
Consumers’ association DECO has issued a stark warning over health dangers posed by minced meat on sale up and down the country. Concerns include seriously dangerous additives used to boost
Portimão hands €440,000 of its million-euro tax grab to firemen
Portimão council has announced it is channelling €440,000 of the money it has raised from its million-euro civil protection tax to fund the local fire department. The deal was made
Thumbs-down (yet again) for gay adoption
Three draft laws from opposition parties to legalise same-sex adoptions were turned down in the Portuguese parliament on Thursday (January 22), making it the fourth time this topic has been
New Faro-Morocco boat link on horizon
Travel || A boat link connecting Faro to Tangier, Morocco, could be launching soon. National media reports that the project is already under discussion with Portuguese and Moroccan authorities well
Police stoned
An angry mob is reported to have started throwing stones at police as agents moved in on two men in the process of raiding a Pingo Doce supermarket, in Chelas,
Hillingdon Hospital seeks 50 Portuguese nurses
Already featured by The Sunday Times as “more caring” than their UK counterparts, Portuguese nurses are once again being actively recruited by a British hospital. This time it is the
Portugal among ‘best European honeymoon destinations’
Portugal tops the list of Europe’s “best honeymoon destinations.” The accolade comes from online travel magazine VacationIdea. Pipping other locations like Spain, France and Italy to the post, Portugal comes
Cold-blooded Lagoa murderer goes down for 21 years
The family of a Lagoa man brutally attacked in his office before being shot mercilessly in the head at last saw justice done in a Portimão courtroom on Friday. José
(In)famous five
Five Portuguese émigrés to London are being tracked by British intelligence services after they travelled to Syria to join ISIS terrorists. A report in the Sunday Times suggests the five
Determined driver
A driver who saw a thief disappear off with his car, leapt into another car and gave chase in Esposende – pursuing the man over 22 kms before catching up