At last the scaffolding is to be erected at the Almedina Tower in Rua Dr. Francisco Vieira, Silves, next the square below the council building.
A contract was awarded in March 2014 to a local company and it will cost over €70,000 to repair, modify and consolidate the tower.
A Public Petition has been launched in an attempt to keep the Fábrica do Inglês and its Cork Museum in Silves.
The petition aims to preserve the the Fábrica do Inglês and museum and demands that the President of the Assembly and the Portuguese Association of Industrial Archaeology does something about it.
Nearly 40% of all the total income in Europe goes to people who are in the highest income bracket, while those at the lowest level get only 8%.
Inequality looks at the living conditions of all the people in society, so is a broader concept than poverty which relates to the people just in the lowest income bracket.
Maritime police divers have begun the procedures to recover the wreckage of the Cessna 152 light aircraft that crashed into the sea last Friday, two miles south of Sagres.
The divers have attached inflatable balloons which will be used to lift the fuselage and the one attached wing from the ocean floor.
The families of the six youngsters who died at Meco beach on December 15 last year have delivered a request to the Court of Almada to undertake another investigation into the case.
"Hopefully there will be a judgment and that João Gouveia (Dux), the sole survivor of the tragedy that occurred on the Meco beach in Sesimbra, will clarify all our doubts in court," said the mother of one of the students from the Lusophone University who died.
So much for the 1386 Treaty of Windsor and any semblance of respect for one’s hosts, the culture of alcoholic excess and sexual promiscuity in England’s ‘rotten society’ has been exposed in the latest bestseller to sweep Portugal’s literate classes.
‘Bifes Mal Passados’ is a personal account written by a Portuguese professor based in London who portrays the English as ‘violent animals’ and accuses them of being drunk, dirty and sexually promiscuous.
Portugal’s exports of canned fish last year hit the previous record, way back in 1923.
The 2013 figures show that 53,000 tonnes of canned fish and fish paste were exported from just 23 factories, a fraction of the 400 factories estimated to have been operating 90 years ago.
Eduardo Stock da Cunha has been chosen by the Government and the Bank of Portugal to replace Vítor Bento at the helm of Novo Banco.
The formal announcement was made on Sunday afternoon and it will be up to the new man to choose replacements for the departed financial manager, and vice-president, should he want one.
