The Left Block in Albufeira wants the Council to start doing its job and issue a fine to the organisers of bullfighting events in the city as an advertising car was driving around promoting a forthcoming event last August 17th, well after the after 8:00pm advertising cut-off time.

According to the Bloquistas, "on August 16 and 2018, at 9:19 pm, a publicity car at Albufeira's bullring was stopped at the traffic lights at the intersection between Rua dos Bombeiros Voluntários and Avenida dos Descobrimentos, broadcasting advertising through a loudspeaker."

A Portuguese man living in the US has been arrested and is facing a life-long jail sentence after fatally shooting a man who allegedly was dating his ex-girlfriend and was sitting next to her in a pizzeria in New Jersey on Wednesday.

Miguel Leal da Câmara, originally from the Azores, is accused of murdering Marco Moreira, a 45-year-old Brazilian man, and trying to shoot his ex-girlfriend afterwards.

It’s the kind of news holidaymakers in Portugal wanted to hear – the last weekend of August will be hot and sunny and sea water temperatures in the Algarve will be particularly inviting, according to the latest weather forecasts.

The Portuguese government will invest €500,000 to rebuild parts of the lynx reproduction centre in Silves which was damaged by the raging wildfire that ripped through parts of Monchique, Silves and Portimão at the start of the month.

The centre’s 29 lynx had to be evacuated on August 8 to another centre in Spain where they will remain until the Silves centre is rebuilt and once again able to home the big cats.

Anti-oil drilling association, ASMAA, has launched deft legal moves to keep the pressure on the government which currently is challenging Loulé Court’s ruling that drilling activity off Aljezur must be suspended.

On August 14th, the same day that the Ministry of Sea contested the Loulé court decision, that agreed with a legal claim by three anti-oil associations that the TUPEM licence should be declared invalid, ASMAA lodged a further challenge in the same court.

Peter Hart, joint administrator at PKF Geoffrey Martin & Co, has confirmed that the situation at Premier FX is at the bottom end of dire, with the clients’ account at Barclays, pretty much drained.

There are no signs of any funds with which to repay hundreds of loyal Premier FX customers. The joint administrator says he is looking to see if funds are held by third parties but many customers, now at the end of their financial tethers, are not  longer holding their breath.

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.