The Metropolitan Police operation, that so far has cost UK taxpayers £11.75 million, is to receive £150,000 in further funding to keep Operation Grange active.
The Home Office confirmed on Tuesday that it has allocated the money to Scotland Yard to continue its investigation until March, 2019.
The University of Algarve has signed up to the National Fund for Building Rehabilitation and now will study the feasibility of converting the former School of Health Sciences, near the prison, into student accommodation and housing for lower-income families.
This National Fund is managed by Fundestamo which provides student accommodation and homes for families who, while not in urgent need, have difficulty finding suitable housing at prices they can afford.
The Albufeira Shopping mall was evacuated by the GNR this afternoon. Shoppers were cleared from the zone after an alert had been issued by the centre manager just after 1pm.
The GNR Command in Faro stated, "We received news of a bomb threat and proceeded to evacuate the mall."
A classic car rally will take place next Sunday, November 18th, starting in Armação de Pêra and ending up in Messines.
1st Tour of Classic Vehicles in the Silves municipality has been organised by the Classical Vehicles Club for the Barlavento which expects around the owners of around 100 old cars to take part.
The eucalyptus lobby has attempted a hearts and minds operation in a new manifesto that notes the percentage of the species burnt in last year and this year’s forest fires.
Several personalities and companies allied to the trade in this fast growing wood, state that the fires that broke out in Portugal were not due to the presence of eucalyptus, but due to the "very low level of management of the forest and of overgrown and unattended forests."
A record number of those using Portugal’s airports have suffered disruption this year, nearly twice the number logged over the same period in 2017.
An average of 890 people per day have been subject to delays, according to AirHelp which gives the most common cause as ‘a lack of pilots.’
Theresa May summoned her cabinet to an emergency meeting on Wednesday afternoon to sign off her long awaited final Brexit deal, prompting hard-Brexit Tories to call for senior ministers to stand up and block it, writes Dan Sabbagh, Daniel Boffey and Jessica Elgot in The Guardian on Tuesday evening.
The critical meeting is the culmination of months of negotiations and will see May’s senior ministers consider whether they can personally endorse the agreement that the prime minister has been able to reach.
Portugal’s formerly State owned energy supplier, EDP, continues to ride low in the popularity polls after the company admitted to charging customers twice for the same bill.
Tens of thousands of consumers who had chosen to pay by Direct Debit had two equal amounts taken from their accounts, due to a, "communication error with the bank," according to EDP, which has just announced that it will make a first time loss on its domestic Portuguese business this year.
