The President of the Republic of Portugal rounded off his visit to London with a visit to the Queen last Thursday.
Rebelo de Sousa was ready with a gift to offer Her Majesty, a bottle of port dated 1953, the year of her coronation when she was 28-years-old.
The weather is expected to remain wet and stormy across mainland Portugal until Tuesday with heavy downpours, strong winds, snowfall on high ground in the north and rough seas.
In Friday's warning, the National Civil Protection Authority warned of high seas until the end of Saturday morning on the north and central coast and in the Lisbon region, with four metre waves.
The Berlin Wall farce continues with Olhão’s famous railway crossing once again in the news with attempts to put a positive spin on the continuing story that so far has defied common sense but has provided amusement to thousands.
The solution as to 'how to cross the railway track' was announced in July 2015 when €150,000 of totally unnecessary work was announced by Infraestruturas de Portugal to widen the road underpass so that (unwilling) pedestrians could cross from one side of the city to the other without using the old pedestrian crossing over the tracks.
Portugal’s courts convicted 379 sex offenders last year with 311 of them successfully prosecuted for the sexual abuse of children and dependent minors, 60 convicted of child pornography charges, five for child prostitution and three for the pimping and trafficking of minors
According to data from the Ministry of Justice 82% of those accused were convicted, as in 2015 there were 462 defendants.
Nine months after the murder of a schoolboy, whose body was dumped on wasteland just 80 metres from his Portimão home, the Judicial Police has confirmed that officers are to travel to Brazil to question the prime suspect, Joaquim Lara Pinto.
The 15-year-old victim, Rodrigo Lapa, disappeared on February 22nd this year, but his uncovered body was discovered only on March 2nd near his home in Malheiro - he had been beaten and strangled.
The Secretary of State for Tourism, Ana Mendes Godinho, has confirmed a sharply increased demand from Italians for property in Portugal.
Confirming that overall tourist revenue for September this year has increased by 10.8% over September 2015, Godinho added that Italians are buying up property in increasing numbers, a trend that already has been noted in the Algarve.
Experts agree that resistance among Europeans to antibiotics has continued to rise despite warnings about the danger of overuse.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reports that resistance continued to increase between 2012 and 2015 across EU countries for most of the bacteria and drugs that they monitored.
The deplorable state of many of the Algarve’s railway stations at last is being addressed with a cleaning, repair and painting programme.
Olhão’s tawdry offering is getting a lick of paint with Faro, Conceição de Tavira, Mexilhoeira Grande, Silves, Estômbar-Lagoa, Algoz, Poço Barreto and Fuzeta already tarted up.
