Insurance companies have totted up the bill for the Monchique fire and say that €2.1 million of damages has been caused to insured properties and equipment.
The damage was caused by the fire that broke out to the north of Monchique and swept northwards into the Odemira municipality and south, past the county town and onwards to areas in the the Silves and Portimão municipalities.
The missing British man, feared dead after a boating accident at Santa Clara reservoir, is a friend of the son of Foxton’s founder, Jon Hunt.(pictured)
Richard Chapelow, 29, fell from an inflatable 'banana boat' that was being towed at high speed by others in a party of ten people staying at the billionaire Jon Hunt's Alentejo villa. Three others were on the banana boat when it flipped over, but they survived. Chapelow failed to surface.
The council of Castro Marim finally has made a decision to construct a river beach at the Odeleite reservoir.
The decision was rejected at a Chamber meeting in December last year but a consensus now has been reached within an EC funding deadline after a new version of the project was presented by Councilor José Estevens from Primeiro (CM1).
The Italian engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that has collapsed, killing 43 people, warned of structural risks from corrosion, four decades ago.
Riccardo Morandi wrote a report in 1979 which referred to a, “well-known loss of superficial chemical resistance of the concrete” because of sea air and pollution from a nearby steel plant.
A beautifully timed vote.winning plan offers hope to Portugal’s 1,168 eradicated Parish Councils that they may be reformed under new rules.
The Parish purge, led by Miguel Relvas under the Passos Coelho coalition government, saw the forced merger of Parish Councils as part of a localised plan to share the pain of austerity while stripping out many local services run by Parishes.
The Spearfishing World Championship is coming to Sagres as 150 contestants aim to “practice the sport in an integrated manner, making the use of the territory in a way that’s compatible with the conservation of resources."
The 31st CMAS Spearfishing World Championship will take place from 6 to 10 September in the sea off Sagres, with 150 participants from 30 countries based on 95 boats.
Former Brexit minister and sports enthusiast, Steve Baker, said his main parachute failed to open during a skydive above the Alvor aerodrome near Portimão.
The Conservative MP for Wycombe, who resigned from the Department for Exiting the European Union in July, ended up in a dangerous spiral as he descended.
Environmental association, ZERO, has filed a complaint at the European Commission against the Portuguese State regarding the planned conversion of Air Base No. 6 in Montijo, into a commercial airport.
The basis of the objection is the government’s non-compliance with its own Strategic Environmental Assessment legislation during the decision-making process for the construction of a new commercial airport at Montijo, to take the pressure off Lisbon International Airport.
