The 'holm oak of Monte do Barbeiro' has won ‘tree of the year’ in Portugal
The 150 year-old tree goes forward as Portugal’s entry in the European Tree of the Year competition that will be held in February 2019.
The University of Algarve campus was evacuated late on Wednesday morning after the police received a phone call saying that a bomb had been planted.
The threat was taken with the utmost seriousness by the Public Security Police who ensured that several of the university’s buildings on the Penha campus were cleared.
The Algarve’s waste collection and treatment company, Algar, is increasing the availability of ecopoints.
Algar stated today that it is investing in a plan to improve the quality of the service it provides to locals and visitors.
Sludge and dredged gunge from the port of Tavira are being pumped onto the sea-bed off the bathing area of Cabanas.
Fishermen and concerned locals fear that Cabanas beach will end up being polluted by the sludge as it later shifts with the tides.
Loulé Council is doing welcome things with its cash pile, including the purchase of the old casino in Quarteira and a 3,000 square metre lot near the Municipal Centre which is to be turned into a car park.
The old casino in Quarteira is a one of those emblematic, much loved buildings which was built in the early 1900s.
A man was stabbed in the Forum Algarve shopping centre on Wednesday afternoon. The assailant, well known to the police, ran off and is in hiding.
An unexpected meeting between two men who held old grievances ended in an argument and a stabbing.
The Pestana Pousadas Group’s investment in Vila Real de Santo António, where it is creating a hotel from three historic C18th buildings in the city centre, should be completed by the end of 2019.
The €3 million development, overlooking Marquês de Pombal square, is using three adjacent buildings that are owned by the Council and its trading subsidiary, Sociedade de Gestão Urbana EM, SA.
The collapse of a 100 metre section of the Borba to Vila Viçosa road, as it passes along a narrow section between two marble quarries, saw a mechanical digger, two cars and a box van, all with their occupants, crash into the water 50 metres below.
Two men have been confirmed dead and three men, possibly more, are still missing.
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