"The country has 202 beds for palliative care; of these, only ten are located in the Algarve. These are at the Palliative Care Unit of the Hospital de Portimão" claimed the Left Bloc today, which in April questioned the Government about plans to close even this one small unit.
In a response released only this week, the government said that the Palliative Care Unit will remain in Portimão, but also admitted that there is a lack of palliative care beds in the Algarve.
People who shop online have been granted new rights by EU law.
The major new set of consumer rights, the Consumer Rights Directive, applies across all of the European Union’s 28 member countries.
GM maize could be planted in England as early as 2015.
After a long spell of applying the brakes, the EU decided that each member country should be given the power to decide on planting two strains of genetically modified maize which is resistant to the industrial weedkiller Roundup.
British prisons have been told to brace themselves for the arrival of more criminals.
The UK’s Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, said “that’s what the public want”.
Despite having a new communications director in a bid to cease the often ill-timed utterances of Ryanair’s chief executive Michael O’Leary, he is at it again.
His Holiness today announced that Ryanair will not resume the route between Lisbon and Faro which was suspended at the end of April.
Two iconic statues stolen from Estói Palace in 2006 have been returned to the Algarve having been tracked down and recovered in Spain by police.
The life-size female figures were stolen during a period when the Baroque palace was closed to the public, and well before the venue became a fully-fledged Pousada.
Industrial production in Portugal shot up by 6.7% in April, showing a good recovery for the 4% drop it experienced in March.
This was the highest jump in any eurozone country.
The Algarve’s flagship has been the venue on which to impress our Spanish neighbours in a session of ‘showcooking’ with the regional tourist board hosting the first of a series of on-board events.
More than 100 people joined Algarve tourism representatives on board the replica caravel in Seville for a showcooking session organised by the Algarve tourism board. The show drew journalists, Seville’s great and good, and leaders of Spanish travel businesses.
