Since the beginning of the 2024 bathing season, which runs from May 1st to October 31st, there have been only five deaths on Portuguese beaches. Still five too many, but a big improvement on last year.

The Senior Census Operation began yesterday, to identify elderly people living alone or in isolation an in turn help the GNR to reduce the risk of the elderly becoming victims of crimes.

Yesterday, Portimão Firefighters were called to assist two people who were injured in motorcycle collisions, within an hour.

Lisbon firefighters will begin a a month-long strike from 1st to 31st October, for better conditions, demanding a review of the Staff Statute for Professional Firefighters in Local Administration, namely a review of the pay scale.

Cutting-edge magnetic resonance The brande new equipment based in the city of Loulé "will be a very important facility for improving health services throughout the region", said the Municipality of Loulé at the inauguration on Friday, September 27th.

A 44 year old man, with an outstanding arrest warrant for child molestation in the Azores, has at last been arrested, by police in Castro Marim in the Algarve.

A source from the General Inspectorate of Health Activities (IGAS) has announced that the authorities have detected signs of disciplinary responsibility in some of the cases reported for alleged malpractice in the Surgery department at Faro hospital.

A 12 year old boy stabbed six of his classmates at a school just outside Lisbon last week after he had reportedly been viewing Nazi websites.