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By: CECÍLIA PIRES cecilia@the-resident.com BARS AND nightclubs across the Algarve are coming under increased scrutiny from the police to ensure all regulations are being adhered to as the busy summer

‘MODERNIST ARCHITECTURAL dictatorship’ is just one unflattering description given by Lisbon council members to a building project for Lisbon’s historic Largo do Rato. The controversial residential and office project developed

HUNDREDS OF Lisbon city centre buildings are standing empty because owners don’t have the money to do them up. Despite being granted planning permission for improvements and change of use,

THE POPULAR Festa de Santa Maria is being celebrated in Ourique, in the Alentejo, with a weekend of music and events from August 14 to 16. Performances by popular Portuguese

PORTUGAL’S PRESIDENT made the unprecedented step of addressing the nation last week to convey his opposition to proposed changes in regional government laws in the Azores which could dilute the

A FOUR year-old British girl was taken to hospital after she fell from a first floor balcony at the family’s holiday apartment near Lagos. The incident happened on the evening

A MOTORIST in Ourique in the Alentejo suffered a nasty fright last Friday morning when her Fiat car went out of control. Having mounted a barrier beside the main road,

PROFITS AT Portugal’s main four banks have fallen 43 per cent in the first quarter of this year. Convulsions in the international credit market, the sub-prime mortgage lending crisis, the

THE PORTUGUESE Justice Minister, Alberto Costa, wants a 24-hour surveillance system operating in all courts in Portugal. The formal procedures to implement the measure are already under way. The announcement

SWIMMERS RAN for safety when a Monk shark made an appearance off the coast of Grândola in the Alentejo on Sunday. The worried swimmers were in the sea at the