Farm workers from south Asia, who have left their home countries to find work in Portugal’s £200m berry industry, lured by the dream of a “raspberry passport”, have described conditions such as working 16 hour days in 40°c heat and being paid less than minimum wage to do it.

European countries are already divided on many matters. There are fast-growing concerns that this could greatly worsen unless Russia and the United States can come up with some diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis. That looks increasingly unlikely.

The bomb threat that occurred this Friday afternoon at Algarve Shopping, which led to the evacuation of about 300 people, was made by an employee of the shopping center, according to the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manhã.

The Tax and Customs Authority have issued a new security alert about fraudulent emails and text messages (SMS) that are being sent to taxpayers, the third since the beginning of the year.

Currently, the SIC and RTP polls both point to a technical tie between PS and PSD, with a slight advantage for the Socialists. Third place is disputed between IL and Chega (6%).

Several European countries have lifted, or are soon lifting restrictions against Covid-1, spurred on by the “less harmful” Ómicron variant and the success of vaccination.

A 60-year-old man died after waiting 6 hours for an ambulance at the 24hr Emergency Centre of Vila Real de Santo António.

As of today, January 27th, it will be easier to contact the Municipality of Lagos to deal with your matters, with a new personalised telephone answering service.