The destruction of long sections of clifftop in Praia da Luz and Porto de Mos, Lagos, 'aims to avoid future landslides,' according to the Portuguese Environmental Agency which is carrying out various ‘controlled collapses’ at the top of the landmark cliffs.
A 'controlled collapse' is agency-speak for using a JCB at the cliff top to scrape away loose areas of rock.
A computer error is stopping thousands of taxpayers paying fines for overdue car tax (IUC). More worryingly, the government has admitted that some have unwittingly ended up paying fines for other car owners.
The complaint was made not by a consumer group, but by the president of the Trabalhadores dos Impostos (Union of Tax Office Workers.)
British expats must be made to feel more valued by the UK government to encourage more expats to vote, according to a cross-party group of parliamentarians, but only those who have been away for not more than 15 years.
The group came about after “it became apparent that there was a serious problem of non-registration by British citizens living abroad.”
The Danish branch of Thomas Cook has launched an advertising campaign to get couples to visit romantic cities in the hope of boosting the declining birth rate.
“Do it for Denmark!” claims that Danes have 46% more sex while on holiday and that 10% of the population was actually conceived by parents who were holidaying out of the country.
Many orchards in the West Country were swamped for weeks during the wettest winter on record.
The floods left the UK’s 17,300 acres under threat and there are fears that many of the millions of trees planted in the last ten years may not survive.
Olive oil produced in Portugal has won the most awards at the 4th International Olive Oil Competition for Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Portugal’s 11 wins beat the Spanish offerings which won 9 awards. The Italian oils received three awards, and one olive oil from Chile was selected for an award in a competition that saw olive oil competing from as far afield as Greece, Slovenia, Uruguay and Germany.
Faro Council today denied that Ribeira das Lavadeeiras, near the N125 at city exit to Olhão, was an 'open sewer,' saying that the river discharges "clear water."
The municipality was responding to yesterday’s alert from the opposition party which said the area was nothing but an "open sewer" and demanded the intervention of the Ministry of Environment to resolve the situation with the council.
Thus spake the parliamentary group of the PCP through its elected Algarve MP Paulo Sá.
Petition no.º 335/XII/3.ª, soon tio be discussed in parliament, is for "Defending the hospital in the western Algarve and maintaining all services specialties, human and material resources in Portimão Hospital," and has been organised by the Committee of Users of the Health Services of Portimão.
