A crash between two cars this afternoon, on the EN124 Lagoa to Silves road, left an elderly couple seriously injured.

The accident, near the underpass on the hill to the south of Silves, left a 21-year-old woman with slight injuries.

With a characteristic lack of urgency, two further Lisbon politicians have been lined up to show that the government really cares and will sign a protocol to help those devastated by the August fire in Monchique.

The Secretary of State for Housing, Ana Pinho, and the Secretary of State for Spatial Planning and Nature Conservation, Célia Ramos, will attend the signing ceremony of the 'Protocol of Institutional Cooperation between the Municipality of Monchique and the Institute Housing and Urban Rehabilitation.'

The project to build a luxury resort near the cliff tops at Bengil, Lagoa has suffered a body blow with the Environmental Impact Commission issuing a red light for the €180 million tourist development.
 
A project was submitted to use 22 hectares of unspoiled countryside for a hotel, a tourist village and a hotel-apartment building, a total of 1,279 tourist beds. The development land is 300 metres from the cliffs between Benagil and Marinha beaches.

Theresa May certainly is front page news today after yesterday's, possibly fatal, postponement of a vote in the House of Commons on her government's Brexit deal proposal.

The UK press titles all cover the Prime Minister's decision to defer the Brexit vote rather her facing certain defeat with many formerly loyal supporters deserting her.

A CTT workers' group has launched a petition demanding the State's buys back shares in CTT, currently a private company.

The objective is to defend the Universal Public Service arrangements which the current management seem adept at working their way around, to the detriment of users.

A lorry carrying gas bottles, overturned on the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway this morning.

The driver was injured and was taken to Portimão hospital.

The Prosecutor's Office is not to charge the three former secretaries of state who went to France to watch football matches in August 2016, at the invitation of energy giant, Galp.

Three resignations were accepted after the public servants attend Euro 2016 football matches in France, at Galp's expense.

A report into the appalling management of the State-owned bank, Caixa Geral de Depósitos, is finished and has been sent to the Public Prosecution service which will decide who of the former directors will face charges.

The government-sponsored audit was undertaken by EY, formerly Ernst & Young and the result of this work, which looked at the years 2000 to 2015, is with the Public Prosecution Service and the European Central Bank.