The development of a Quarteira to Vilamoura beachfront link will forcibly unite the two currently distinct tourist resorts and already has been commissioned by the two local councils with a completion date of less than a year.
The budget for the work is €3.67 million including VAT for work covering 17.7 hectares of beachfront, dune, parks, areas for pedestrians and cyclists, leisure facilities and an area for parking.
British Airways is to resumes operations to and from Madeira next year from its base at Gatwick.
The airline today announced three new sunshine routes to Seville, Funchal in Madeira and Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, all from Gatwick.
While about 675,000 people took to the streets in cities around the world prior to the United Nations climate change summit meeting, relatively few ventured forth in Portugal, suggesting that climate change is not something the Portuguese much worry about.
Well over 300,000 protesters turned out in New York, 40,000 in London, 30,000 in Melbourne and 15,000 in Berlin. Even Bogota in Colombia drummed up a throng of some 5,000. Organisers said marches took place in more that 2,000 other cities to demand action.
Fosun, China's biggest privately-owned company, has joined the bidding war for Espírito Santo Saude which owns and operates hospitals, clinics and old peoples’ homes across Portugal.
Fosun has put €451 million on the table to buy the business that is 51% owned by the Espírito Santo family - and goodness knows they need the money.
Winter fuel allowance payments to British expats have shot up, with UK official figures showing that a total of 139,000 Brits abroad received the benefit last year.
Just two years before, the figure stood at just under 75,000.
Expats in Spain’s Anadalusia have been given a hint of hope over the illegal house scandal there.
The regional government, Anadalusia’s Junta, has announced that it will try to change the law so that houses built on non-urban land can be recognised officially.
The Spanish government has decided not to pursue punitive new abortion laws which would have the procedure used only in cases of rape or where the mother’s health was at serious risk.
Currently, the law allows abortion up to 14 weeks, or 22 in cases of foetal deformities.
The GNR decided today to return to the house and garage where the suspected Jihadist, Tiago Marques, kept his arsenal of weapons.
Marques now has claimed to be a follower of Bin Laden and Jihad. He was arrested last week after a firearms incident in Paderne, Albufeira where he fired a weapon into the air from his car.
