The perennial problems eating away at the Algarve’s State-run hospitals have seen health minister Marta Temido come up with a drastic solution.

The Food Co. store opened in Almancil on Tuesday (February 25), bringing around 7,500 British and Tesco-branded products to the Algarve.

Loulé Council has announced that the town’s Carnival festivities, held between Sunday and Tuesday (February 23-25), attracted around 75,000 people.

Algarve mineral water company Água de Monchique has invested €8.5 million in a major rebranding move which also saw it double its water bottling capacity in hopes of reaching a 10.8% market share in 2020.

Traveling on the Via do Infante motorway will be cheaper starting in July. This is one of the seven new motorway measures where discounts of up to 40% will be available for the most frequent users of these roads.

The former beer factory of Unicer, now the Super Bock Group, in the Industrial Zone of Loulé, will be transformed into film and audio-visual studios, in an investment of 60 million euros made by two British entities.

Outdated facilities and shortages of medical professionals. It is the portrait of the SNS (National Health Service) in the most southern region of the country. José, 72, was admitted to the Emergency Department of Faro Hospital in mid-January. A cancer patient for a number of years, he had suffered a seizure and required urgent hospitalization last month.

Algarve oranges are now starting to be exported regularly to Germany, under a contract recently “signed between Lidl, one of the largest German retail companies, and Cacial, which has involved two other large Algarvian citrus production and marketing companies, Frusoal and Frutalgoz.