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Red fruits and red wine can protect against mental illness

Red fruits and red wine can protect against mental illnessA Portuguese study has confirmed the importance of ‘good intestinal flora’ in staying healthy and happy - stressing that substances present in red fruits and red wine improve intestinal flora, reduce inflammation and contribute to the prevention of depression and neurodegenerative diseases.

Abstract sculptures raise eyebrows in Porto

Abstract sculptures raise eyebrows in PortoThe work of recently-deceased Portuguese sculptor Alberto Carneiro is raising eyebrows in Porto even before it has been completed.

Presented as “three metaphors for trees”, the simplistic erections look, say locals, very much like penises, or "rather unpleasant suppositories".

Serial polluter contests closure decision

TagusPollutionOliveCentroliva has decided to contest the decision to shut down its operations, taken by the Portuguese Environment Agency which also fined the serial polluter a total of €300,000 for a list of proven pollution events stretching back years.
 
Centroliva Indústria e Energia, SA, located in Vila Velha de Ródão, said on Monday, “The company will appeal the decision in the Administrative Court of Castelo Branco."

Galp - oil giant unable to run a simple billing system

galpLogoDeco has advised hundreds of Galp’s electricity and gas customers, not to pay their bills.
 
Delays by Galp in failing to send out their invoices on time, a contractual essential, has placed many consumers in the enviable position of being entitled to refuse payment.

Drunk British mother assaults her child in Albufeira hotel

hospitalA British mother has been arrested for assaulting her seven-year-old daughter in an Albufeira hotel.
 
The woman was arrested after shocked staff at the Monica Isabel Beach Club apartment complex called the GNR who made an immediate arrest last Saturday night, April14th.

Insolvent Faro Football Club has 60 days to submit a payment plan

footballA Faro Football Club creditors' meeting ended with the decision to give the club 60 days within which to present an insolvency plan to pay off the €5 million it owes creditors.
 
"The Club will have to present a payment plan that satisfies creditors," the insolvency administrator told reporters at the end of the meeting in Olhão today.

Portugal wins the 2018 European Fossil Fuel Subsidies Awards.

oilrig2Thanks for your vote in the 2018 European Fossil Fuel Subsidies Awards. (HERE

The awards, organised by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, expose financial support for dirty energy in countries across Europe.  It's time to announce the winners of the public vote!
 

Jihadis' wives and children arriving in Portugal

isisIn the coming months, around 20 women and children of jihadists, currently living in territory controlled by the extremist Islamic State group, will start to arrive in Portugal.
 
"The return of women and minors is expected to increase in 2018," including "more than two dozen descendants of national citizens," according to Adélio Neiva da Cruz, director of the Security Information Service (SIS), at a seminar on terrorist victims.