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By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@the-resident.com PAPERWORK COULD delay an application for EU funding of a new radiotherapy unit in Faro, says a leading Algarve cancer charity. The Oncological Association of the

SIXTEEN PEOPLE have died in Portugal during this summer’s official bathing season, six more than last year. The figures for the June 1 to September 1 period were released by

CANADA’S HIGH Arctic has lost a huge area of ice shelves since the beginning of the year, according to reports from scientists at Trent University, in Ontario, Canada. A recent

THE UK ECONOMY will grow by just 1.2 per cent for the whole of 2008 according to an interim assessment of the G7 countries released on Tuesday by the Organisation

POLICE INVESTIGATING the arson and murder at Osbaston House in Shropshire, UK, on August 26 believe the crimes were perpetrated by Christopher Foster, the owner of the mansion. Christopher Foster

HURRICANE GUSTAV, which it was feared would cause major damage as it hit the city of New Orleans on the eastern coast of the US, was downgraded to a category

PORTUGAL’S PRESIDENT Cavaco Silva said last week that the crime wave engulfing the country in recent months  is “very serious”. Returning from holidays in the Alentejo, the President indirectly warned the

PORTUGAL’S TOURISM board, Turismo de Portugal, has been nominated among the eight leading European tourism boards at this year’s World Travel Awards. The event will be held on October 10

A TECHNICAL problem forced a Thomas Cook plane to make an emergency landing at Faro airport on Wednesday afternoon. Flight TCX037K was flying from Gatwick to Fuerteventura in the Canary

EXCLUSIVE BY ELOISE WALTON and DAISY SAMPSON THE MAN who rescued an eight-year-old British girl from her drunken mother has condemned the lack of response from the authorities in Portugal.