Portugal

By PAULO SILVESTRE paulo.silvestre@theresidentgroup.com Three support buildings for the new toll gantries on the A22 motorway were vandalised and set on fire on Monday. The structures, located inBoliqueime, Loulé and

Carvoeiro is hosting an exhibition inspired by elephants until May 8. Eighteen large elephant sculptures have been painted by 18 artists, using different methods and styles to create the Passion

Heavy rain over the past week has led to some of the sand sculptures at the FIESA International Sand Sculpture Festival, on the road between Algoz and Pêra, being damaged.

Financial wizards from the IMF, EU and ECB, working in Lisbon on Portugal’s budgetary woes, have come up with a controversial idea – scrap the Christmas and summer double salaries.

Howard Dean, former governor of Vermont, US, and once chairman of that country’s Democratic National Committee, will be the guest speaker at a lunch on May 4, from noon, at

REVIEW by SHEENA RAWCLIFFE The one thing that the Algarveans cannot be accused of is failing to challenge themselves and they certainly challenged themselves with Honk! The Musical. And did

By JOHN OLIVER AND JEANETTE ELLIOTT It has been a long time coming but at last the first commercial flight touched down at Beja airport, in the Alentejo on Sunday,

By NUNO GLASSBROOK & PAULO SILVESTRE news@algarveresident.com Customers trying to withdraw money using foreign bank cards at ATM points in some Algarve towns have had the amounts debited from their

By PAULO SILVESTRE paulo.silvestre@theresidentgroup.com An Iberian Lynx cub born on March 24 at the Iberian Lynx National Reproduction Centre in Silves is healthy and doing well. A spokesman from the

Steve Preston (pictured) will be giving a talk on The British Redcoat in the Peninsular War, about the men and where they came from rather than the strategy of the