Friday's railway workers’ strike is set to paralise the country’s network as no ‘minimum service’ is being provided and no alternative transport is being laid on.

Workers at Comboios de Portugal (CP), Empresa de Manutenção de Equipamento Ferroviário (EMEF) and Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) all demand the better working conditions that they say they have been promised, saying that, "they will be fighting for compliance with this year's agreements, which are not being respected by the government and management.”

A man was badly injured after he jumped off the 'Ponte Romana' in Tavira into the river Gilão early on Sunday morning.

The man was escaping a group of men who already had attacked him after an argument had developed.

A reef in the Bay of Armação de Pêra is a special area of biodiversity and a project, based on a study by the University of Algarve, aims to have this natural area classified and protected.

Backing up the proposal is Silves Council, the Blue Ocean Foundation, the University of the Algarve’s Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR), the Fishermen's Association of Armação de Pêra and the Armação de Pêra Parish Council, all of which want the sea area to be officially designated as a Protected Marine Area of ​​Community Interest.

Silves Council, at long last, is cracking down on its extensive collection of abandoned vehicles that litter the municipal capital’s streets and car parks.

A new municipal regulation will be put in force to remove these abandoned vehicles, or those that are badly parked, on December 10th.

Castro Marim council and local businesses have found it hard fully to benefit from the growth in tourism as there is no hotel in the historic city.

This situation is being resolved with the mayor, Francisco Amaral, praising the, "de-bureaucratisation of the licensing processes and the stimulation of private initiative which have promoted the appearance of new investments."

The man caught on video stabbing another at the Algarve Forum in Faro was arrested this Tuesday by the Portuguese Security Police.

António Damião is suspected of attempted manslaughter and of making threats. The attack occurred almost two weeks ago but the paperwork took a while to come through to the PSP, even though the attacker is well known to the local forces of law and order.

Three British and two Portuguese men have been arrested on suspicion of stealing around 40 rental cars and motor homes in the Faro area.

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, who ordered the Monday arrests in Tavira and Olhão, the gang is responsible for the additional theft of electric scooters, bicycles and other objects the cash value of which has yet to be confirmed but is estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands of euros bracket.

The day of reckoning is soon to arrive for Novo Banco, the US owned bank that has its losses covered by the Portuguese taxpayer in a deal thought by the Bank of Portugal’s president as perfectly acceptable.

Novo Banco owes the European Central Bank €6.5 billion and, unlike Caixa Geral de Depósitos, has not repaid any of the loan before its due date and certainly does not have the money to settle the bill.