A railway workers strike scheduled for Monday, June 4th, is causing problems with some services being cancelled on Sunday.
José Manuel Oliveira, coordinator of the Federation of Transport and Communications Workers, one of the six unions involved in the strike, said he did not know how many trains had been cancelled, as things were rather unpredictable.
A rare phenomenon for Portugal was spotted and photographed from Praia do Cabeço, in Castro Marim.
A Solar Halo occurs when fine ice particles are suspended in the atmosphere, which reflect sunlight at a certain angle to the earth.
A head-on collision between a passenger car and a light goods vehicle has killed a 38-year-old man and seriously injured three others.
Among the wounded is an eight-year-old.
Litio, the Iberian Lynx whose tracking device malfunctioned just two days after his release into the wild, has been spotted in south-eastern Spain.
The lynx has been unaccounted for after his release in southern Portugal two years ago.
A 25-year-old Portuguese man got involved in an argument over a girl whom he used to date.
A Spaniard was stabbed in the ensuing fight with the local, who, when he came across the Spaniard in the company of his ex-girlfriend at Reno's bar, Avenida Sá Carneiro, an argument got out of control and the Spaniard was stabbed in one of his hands.
An earthquake registering 2.9 on the Richter Scale was registered at 6:14 this morning, Sunday June 3rd.
The epicentre was about 20 kilometres south-southwest of Lagos with the Rede Símica do Continente recording the tremor on the mainland from various of its monitoring stations at Vaqueiros, Marmelete, Barranco do Velho, Aljezur, Budens, Tavira, Portimão, Lagos, Albufeira, Faro and Sagres.
Spain's parliament has removed the right wing Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, (pictured) after a vote of no confidence on Friday, following further revelations about corruption in the conservative Popular Party.
Socialist Party’s leader Pedro Sanchez (pictured below) took over after an absolute majority of 180 MPs voted to oust Rajoy who admitted defeat before the vote in the knowledge that Catalan separatists and Basque nationalists had turned against him.
Portugal’s Prime Minister, António Costa, today spent time hugging trees in Loulé, visiting Monchique firefighters who had not been paid for a year, and ended the day answering tricky oil related questions posed by journalists.
Today was Children’s Day, noted in the Algarve by a visit from the smiley PM who started his tour by hugging trees with a thousands of green T-shirted kids, ‘in defence of the forest’ at the 'Um Abraço Verde' event in Duarte Pacheco park in Loulé.
