Petrofer workers in the Algarve have voted to 'suspend their contracts' so they at least can apply for unemployment benefits after months of impasse.
The employees of Petrofer’s filling stations got together today to discuss their options, one of which is formally to suspend their own contracts due to wage arrears and the other was the continuing problem that they have no fuel or goods to sell.
Eurostar has launched a new state-of-the-art train capable of travelling at 320 kilometres an hour.
The Channel Tunnel train, Siemens e320, will enter service next year, allowing passengers to make the 306-mile trip from Paris to London in just two hours.
The Council of Ministers today has agreed to sell off state owned airline TAP, well... part of it.
Portugal's Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro said this afternoon that the plan is to offload 66% of the airline, 61% to an investor or investors, with 5% set aside for TAP employees.
America’s most wanted cyber criminal was undone by his password.
Jeremy Hammond, 29, made it his mission to hack into US government websites to “expose and confront injustice”.
The Algarve has its first case of Legionella but the patient is out of intensive care and is receiving further specialist treatment, according a spokesman at Hospitals of the Algarve (CHA).
The patient is directly linked to the outbreak in Vila Franca de Xira, greater Lisbon and was in Intensive Care in Faro hospital.
In a new twist in the Algarve railway crossing controversy a Faro farmer has been annexed by state railway company Refer which has dug ditches either side of the railway line and piled up earth to prevent him using an established crossing.
The farm and nearby dwellings used the road that existed before the railway was built but Refer says that farmer Pedro Ferreira must pay for the privilege of crossing its line.
Alcoutim council is delighted about plans for a huge solar farm plant in its municipality but dod nto know anything about it.
The Mayor of Alcoutim, Osvaldo Gonçalves, said today that he received the news with surprise and delight as he heard of the intention of a private consortium to build a photovoltaic plant on his territory.
The Júpiter Hotel, one of Praia da Rocha’s main tourist offerings, closed its doors to tourists on November 11th 2014.
The rather more encouraging news is that the hotel on the Avenida da Republica is undergoing a €2 million refit. The management plans that the refurbished hotel will be open for business by the end of March, 2015.
