Olhãopesca – the Organization of Fisheries Producers of the Algarve requested, on Tuesday, November 12th, “urgent” support from the Ministry of the Sea.

"If there is no sustainable marine environment for biodiversity, we are ruining tourism." These are the words of Ricardo Serrão Santos, the new minister of the sea, who made his first trip to the Algarve yesterday, to participate in the opening of the public congress “The Stress in the Oceans”, which took place at the University of the Algarve.

A group of lawyers filed a request with the Supreme Court for the immediate release of the young mother who left her son in a dumpster, as they consider her pre-trial detention to be "absolutely illegal".

Surgeon Jose Fragata has warned earlier today that the National Health Service may be "very close to the point of no return", arguing that health "really has to be a priority" in the current legislature.

The two individuals wanted to travel to London, and had counterfeit Italian passports in their possession.

It seems as if the set of renovations planned for the Praia de Faro campsite will go ahead. The Loulé Administrative Court rejected the Protective Order presented by campers who have presided over the campsite in recent years, who belong to the Association of Praia de Faro Camping Users and Friends (AUAPCPF). This was announced today, the 11^th of November, by Faro Council. The work was supposed to have started on October 1st, but the injunction forced a delay to its start.

The event saw Loulé Council promise more human and technical resources from the Government, and much pomp, as the occasion demanded. The centenary of the Maritime Police (PM) was officially celebrated yesterday, Sunday, in Quarteira, in a ceremony attended by the Minister of Defense, alongside a large military presence.

The Ministry of Environment has guaranteed that there will be "no mining prospecting or crude researching in the Alto Douro Wine Region", an area of ​​over 26,000 hectares classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.