A three car pile-up outside the Giga Garden Centre near Algarve Shopping in Guia on Tuesday afternoon closed the road while police and emergency services rushed to the scene.
All drivers and passengers were wearing seatbelts, and airbags helped to cushion the impact that left the vehicles severely damaged or write-offs.
Drug use among the Portuguese population has been in decline, but there are some worrying trends especially among women and young people, according to a new report.
‘The Situation in the Country for Drugs and Dependency 2012’ reveals that between 2007 and 2012 overall drug use is down, but over the same period consumption has increased in some female age groups, contrary to the general pattern, which gives rise to ‘new challenges for the future.’
The Energy Services Regulatory Authority will continue "to defend the rights of consumers" in court proceedings brought by EDP which is contesting an instruction to pay €7 million in compensation to customers on bi and tri-hourly tariffs.
EDP has resorted to court in an attempt to avoid paying the compensation to customers who were disadvantaged by the widespread inaccuracy of the meters which had their clocks set incorrectly.
A fire that broke out on Monday night in the Horta da Areia area of Faro has left nine homeless, according to the mayor, Rogério Bacalhau.
Those affected by the fire are from three families who lived in the pre-fab wood and corrugated iron houses that were gutted by the flames.
Bacalhau said that the council works department will start to clear away the houses which he considers are "unrecoverable."
People in Britain are turning to coffee as their brew of choice.
Sales of tea dropped by 6% this year, after having fallen by 3% last year.
Inflation in the eurozone was up by 0.9% in November. In October it had been 0.7%.
In November of last year, inflation was running at 2.2% on average in the region.
The Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, said today that the government is "creating the conditions" for the privatisation of TAP and will proceed "as soon as possible, perhaps in the first quarter of 2014.”
Monteiro said the government will only go ahead “when the conditions are right from the point of view of competitiveness in the market.”
The President of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy, today expressed his optimism about recent Portuguese economic data, hailing the successes achieved by the coalition Government.
"I have followed closely the recent economic data from your country and the trend is positive," said Rajoy in an informal chat with press at his official residence Moncloa Palace, during a Christmas get together.
