Not for the first time, the new visitors centre at Stonehenge has been given the thumbs down.
Visitors to the new £27 million centre have dished out criticism over “chaotic scenes” caused by the centre not coping well with the number of people.
The new facilities, created by English Heritage, were opened three weeks ago. The new layout was planned for people to be able to visit the site without the interruption of nearby car parking and road traffic.
Sainsbury’s is opening more local convenience shops in the UK than larger supermarkets.
This week, its 594th convenience store is due to open in Coventry and with it comes the overtaking of the number of supermarkets the company runs.
Sainsbury’s is opening two convenience stores every week.
For those that think the crisis is over, think again as the staggering level of dependency on food aid charity in the Algarve is laid bare by a report from Food Bank Against Hunger.
Between 22,000 and 25,000 people are in need of food aid in the Algarve, according to the latest estimate by Nuno Alves, the head of the Food Bank in the Algarve region, which already supports 16,000 poor people through 70 institutions.
Medics working in the Algarve’s creaking healthcare sector have sent a letter to the regional health board outlining the 'degradation in health care’ just seven months after the creation of the new ‘Algarve Central Hospitals’ regional structure.
The explosive letter has been signed by 183 of the 220 specialists from the hospitals in Faro, Portimão and Lagos, some 80%.
In Paulo Portas’s keynote speech at the 25th Congress of the CDS he highlighted the ‘new frontier’ of May 17th 2014, the day he expects the Troika to leave town, leaving Portugal to fend for itself in international waters.
At the conference Portas was re-elected leader of the CDS with 85.93 % of the votes.
Scientists believe that more than half the nations in Europe do not have enough honeybees to pollinate crops.
Instead, pollination is being done by so called ‘wild pollinators’ such as bumblebees, solitary bees and hoverflies.
Honey bees are said by researchers to be responsible for pollinating around one-third of the world's crop production.
Thankfully, the number of deaths reduced by half last year but there were more accidents on the Algarve’s choked road system.
This is the second year running that the number of deaths on the Algarve roads fell, according to data from the National Road Safety Authority which reported 20 fatalities, 23 less than the previous year.
The accident rate was marginally up in 2013 with 8,365 accidents reported, 48 more than in 2012.
The multinational Repsol-Partex oil and gas consortium says it will commence “clean and safe” exploratory drilling off the south coast of Portugal late this year or early next, but it may be another four or five years before it can accurately gauge if hydrocarbon deposits are sufficient to make it worthwhile to proceed to commercial extraction.
The consortium has already carried out seismic surveys and other preparatory studies since acquiring the offshore concession for blocks 13 and 14 in Algarve waters in October 2011. As the exploration is still in the preliminary stages, no firm date can yet be set for the start of drilling.
