Faro Council has received approval for its 2015 budget with a slim majority in the City Council.
The executive was delighted to report that this was the first year that income would equal expenditure, thus breaking the unwritten code adopted for years by many Algarve councils that expenditure should wildly exceed income.
New EU rules came into effect on 1 January requiring many electrical gadgets and appliances to switch off automatically in order to save energy.
Now devices such as routers, modems, smart televisions and printers should be able to switch into a low power standby mode if the equipment has not been used for some time. For example, espresso machines must now power down after 30 minutes and functions keeping cups warm will end after 60 minutes.
Despite the GRN’s warnings that its officers would be pulling over drivers at random this New Year’s Eve and breathalising anyone with a pulse, a foolish number of people thought they could get away with drink driving.
The amount of drugs found in vehicles continues to astound readers, with heroin, hashish and cannabis remaining popular chemical accessories on a good night out.
Madrid’s airport serves as home to at least 30 people, although the number rises in winter.
Similar to other airports such as Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle, homeless people are drawn to the warmth, and free bathrooms, as well as the chance to beg or earn tips from pushing luggage trolleys.
The killer fertilser factory, Fábrica Adubos de Portugal, fired up again last week after a month long stoppage due to the legionella outbreak traced to its plant.
The factory owners received a notification on 26th December from the General Inspectorate of the ministry of Agriculture that it could resume full prodcution.
A total of 17 companies registered their interest in buying Novo Banco before the deadline of 17.00 on New Year’s Eve.
The president of Banco BIC Portugal, Mira Amaral, warned today that now is not the right time to be opening the champagne, despite the government’s delight in the number of applicants and its fervent desire that the sale will be at the high end of expectations.
The District Command for Relief Operations in Beja reported this afternoon that the Beja fire department received an alert from the airfield that a microlite type of aircraft had crashed at 17.19 today.
The accident caused two serious injuries and the victims were swiftly transported to Beja Hospital where later they both were described as being in a stable condition.
"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early. My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall." (Robert Clark)
"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to." (P. J. O'Rourke)
