Portugal

A 23-YEAR old Portuguese man has been arrested and ordered by a judge at Portimão court to present himself regularly to the authorities following an alleged attempted rape of a

By ELOISE WALTON eloise@the-resident.com FUEL SHORTAGES across Portugal have caused people to panic buy today (Wednesday), which has led to many petrol stations running out of fuel and closing. Rui

AN AMERICAN Community Independence Day picnic is due to be held at the Parque Municipal de Oeiras, near Lisbon, on June 28. This event, which starts at 12.30pm, will include

FOLLOWING THE disappearance of Madeleine McCann over a year ago, calls for a Europe wide child alert system, similar to the Amber Alert System in the US, have been growing.

A TOTAL of 126 children took part in The Resident’s first ever Mini Stars photographic competition at the Continente shopping centre in Portimão on Sunday, May 18. Children from five

A SIGNIFICANT amount of people (29 per cent), who took part in a survey, said that the food and economic standards agency ASAE should not be too rigorous in the

By: DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@the-resident.com ALGARVE CÂMARAS are refuelling public vehicles in Spain as petrol prices in Portugal reach all time highs. Fuel costs are now on average 47.5 per cent

TWO CENTRES for the recycling and correct disposal of dangerous industrial waste were inaugurated on Wednesday (June 4) by the Ministry of the Environment in the Freguesia de Carregueira, Chamusca,

CONVENTIONAL AIRLINE tickets were scrapped on Sunday last week saving the airline industry an estimated two billion Euros a year. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) member companies will now

NEITHER ENGLAND, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland nor Ireland qualified for the Euro 2008 finals this year. This has left bar owners across Europe predicting reduced earnings. Usually, the World Cup