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PORTIMONENSE’S LATEST league outing against Oliveirense saw the visitors pepper the Algarveans’ woodwork before substitute Gonzalo’s 62nd-minute strike at the other end allowed the home fans to celebrate. The narrow

RUI MACHADO had the satisfaction of watching his opening round Puebla conqueror, Michael Lammer, sweep to victory in the 35,000 dollar ATP Challenger at the cost of dropping only one

By CATHY MORRIS editorial@the-resident.com Prostitution appears to be thriving in the Algarve, with girls becoming more obvious on main roads. The region has a number of hotspots for girls who

A SURVEY by British newspaper the Financial Times has placed Portuguese finance minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos at the bottom of a league table of European finance ministers. Now in

SPAIN MADE light of injured world No1 Rafael Nadal’s absence to claim its third Davis Cup victory in Argentina. Fernando Verdasco turned out to be the hero for the 2000

People believe that climate change is more important than the current financial crisis, according to the organisers of an international opinion poll. However, the poll revealed that fewer people in

RICKY HATTON all but buried the memory of his only professional defeat against Floyd Mayweather Jnr. by comprehensively pummelling Paulie Malignaggi to defeat in America. The Mancunian light-welterweight world champion’s

PORTUGUESE MINISTER of national defence, Nuno Severiano Teixeira, officially received the first C-295M transport aircraft on behalf of the Portuguese air force last week. The new aircraft was delivered to

THE START of the Portimao Global Ocean Race Cape Town-Wellington second leg has been postponed in order to give competitors more time to recover from their arduous opening Atlantic traverse.

PORTUGAL’S PRESIDENT, Cavaco Silva, inaugurated the new headquarters of the national charity União das Misericórdias in Lisbon on Tuesday. This ceremony, which was also attended by health minister Ana Jorge