Lufthansa cancels 12 flights to and from Portugal this Friday
German airline Lufthansa will be cancelling 12 flights it has scheduled to and from Portugal this Friday (March 20) due to a three-day strike that started on Wednesday, an official
Faro says ‘no’ to Cardinali circus
In a groundbreaking move, Faro council has refused to grant municipal licensing to Portugal’s famous Victor Hugo Cardinali circus. Speaking to the Resident, Henrique Ascenso Gomes from the mayor’s office
Silves woman’s murderer admits to two further killings
As he sits it out in jail, the self-confessed killer of a Silves woman has revealed that he killed two women before brutally murdering financial director Ana Rita Fernandes in
Portugal’s Football League orders “forensic audit” over commissions ‘scandal’
It’s the football world equivalent of the BES banking collapse. Portugal’s Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional is suddenly up to its neck in debt and cannot understand how it got
Lisbon included in Monopoly’s 80th anniversary edition
Lisbon is one of the 22 cities to be included in the 80th anniversary edition of popular board game Monopoly. National media reports that the Portuguese capital was the fourth
Piodão is “utterly breathtaking”, says Huffington Post
It’s just a small place with little over 150 inhabitants, but it has been singled out by The Huffington Post as being an “adorable” Portuguese town “straight out of The
Hospital boss announces €5 million investment in Faro Hospital
Algarve hospital boss Pedro Nunes has announced plans to invest €5 million in the renovation of operating rooms at Faro Hospital and the expansion of its cardiac intensive care unit.
More resignations over VIP taxpayer list furore
Portuguese media is aflame this morning as yet another tax official resigns over the VIP taxpayers’ list furore. What remains so ludicrous in this latest political ‘scandal’ is that everyone
HSBC Swiss bank scandal: Portuguese tax inspector investigated for personal fortune “hidden away”
A Portuguese tax inspector, with an extraordinary record of previous employment in public companies, is under investigation after being found with a personal fortune of €2.3 million hidden away in
INEM investigates “less than professional” online photos
INEM has opened a “rigorous investigation to apportion blame” over “less than professional” photos posted on social media of two staff smiling and posing for cameras as they prepare life-saving