The Captain of Lagos port and the local Maritime Police Commander coordinated an early afternoon rescue on Saturday, February 13, as two stand up paddle boarders were unable to get back to shore without help.
The paddlers were about two miles from Batata beach near Lagos, were picked up by the Ferragudo lifeboat and taken back to Lagos.
Oil exploration and extraction, and the negative impact these processed have on commercial fishing, are under the spotlight in the first edition of Scianema, a film festival on oceans and pollution starting on Thursday.
The event is a partnership between the University of the Algarve, the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth, the Film Society of Faro, the Portuguese Environment Agency, PALP and the Social Network.
The middle of the three bridges over the Arade between Lagoa and Portimão will turn into a single lane road controlled by traffic lights as from Monday 15th February.
According to the contractor, the Arade River Bridge’s expansion joints need replacing and this will take at least a month.
The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said on Friday that Portugal "has to do everything in its power to counteract the uncertainties in the financial markets," referring to the rise in interest rates on Portugal’s bonds and the lack of international glee at its 2016 State Budget.
Schäuble said that European ministers are concerned at the increases in interest rates on Portuguese debt in the financial markets.
A Spanish civil servant managed to take a six year break from work on full pay without anyone noticing.
His absence was finally spotted when he became eligible for an award for 20 years of service.
The southern eurozone countries closed out last year in poor economic shape despite low oil prices and central bank cash injections to stimulate growth.
Spain was the only star in the group with a growth rate of 0.8% in the final quarter of 2015.
The businessman from Leiria, convicted in 2010 of shooting dead a thief in front of a policeman and fleeing overseas, has been caught in Guinea-Bissau.
António Bastos, 62, was tracked down by Portuguese police with the help of colleagues in Brazil and locally in Guinea-Bissau and was arrested. He had been on the run for five years and was taken to court to face a deportation hearing.
Paramjeet Singh is to be released from jail in Beja on the say-so of the Portuguese authorities and soon will return to the UK.
India’s flimsy extradition request was rejected by Evora High Court on the advice of Portugal’s Minister of Justice, Francisca van Dunem, and Singh, arrested last December as he enjoyed a family holiday in Albufeira, will soon be on his way home to the delight of his family and the thousands of Sikhs who have batted for justice and his release.
