Portugal’s much feared Food and Economic Security Authority, ASAE, has ended its indifference to the Alojamento Local short-term tourist rental sector with a swoop on 610 registered AL businesses.
Three tourist accommodation units have been closed down due to an appalling lack of food hygiene, fines have been issued to others.
The hunting season is back on for certain species of birds, with pigeon, collared dove and moorhen which have been fair game as from Sunday, August 19th, - despite the risk of fire caused by hunters' guns.
Hunters' associations say all hunting will be subject to conditions advised to their members, especially in districts that are on red alert due to fire risk, but shooting will not be prohibited.
An accident blocked the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway this morning, leaving three people injured, two of them seriously.
The crash at 11:45 on Monday morning left the Faro-bound lane blocked after a tourist transport vehicle was involved in a collision with a lorry at the Areeiro tunnel near Loulé.
Toys "R" Us is to continue operations in Portugal and Spain after Portuguese investors announced they are to buy the insolvent company's Iberian subsidiary.
Toys "R" Us Iberia is to be acquired by Green Swan, fronted by Paulo Andrez, who joins the current management team as majority shareholder.
There was a 22% year-on-year increase in the number abandoned pets that were taken in by official Council collection centres in 2017.
So far in 2018, managers at Portugal’s official collection centres have reported that around 14,000 animals have been taken in.
Portimão Council intends to move ahead before the year end with the first of two renovation projects for the old Lota de Portimão power station building on the dockside near the old bridge.
The first part of the overall project is to carry out urgent renovation work to stop the building decaying further. This work to replace the roof and fix the walls is budgeted at an eye-watering €350,000 with €80,000 coming from the ERDF community fund.
It will be no surprise to the anti-oil associations and their supporters that the government, in the form of the Ministry of the Sea, is to challenge Loulé court’s ruling that suspended activity relating to the drilling of a test well off Aljezur by the Galp-ENI consortium.
Why the Portuguese taxpayer is funding this appeal by the Ministry of the Sea and the General Directorate of Marine Resources is interesting as as this would seem to be the concession holder's fight, not a taxpayer funded struggle against something the taxpayer generaly doesn't want to see happen.
Ryanair cabin crew ordered the removal of a thirteen-year-old autistic girl from her return flight from Faro to East Midlands Airport, leaving her distressed and stranded at the airport.
Daisy Jarvis, 13, was forced off the flight after cabin crew refused to believe that she was flying with family members, despite there being several family members on board and had her removed by security.
