With no sign of the promised €300,000 emergency roadwork package ever starting on the EN125 eastern section and with a vague “sometime in 2019” date for the comprehensive overall upgrade that the western section already has seen completed, there will be a protest on June 10th on foot or bicycle so highlight the appalling state of much of the road between Olhão and Vila Real de Santo António.

The demonstrators will demand the full and urgent upgrade of the eastern section of the EN125. The demonstration will start at 10:00am at the Vila Nova de Cacela roundabout and end, five kilometres distant, at the Retur junction.

The former mayor of Aljezur, José Amarelinho, has secured the newly-created position as secretary general of the Terras do Infante Association of Municipalities.

This association is a partnership of western Algarve councils, Lagos, Vila do Bispo and Aljezur, with Amarelinho’s appointment marking the first time the organisation has had a dedicated leader.

Doctors from outside the EU are waiting years to get their qualifications recognised by Portugal's University Medical Schools, an essential step before they can join the Ordem de Médicos and practice in Portugal.

The Ordem dos Médicos is keen to have new members who, it says, can start to fill the yawning gaps in the National Health Service, particularly in the Algarve, the islands and inland regions.

On Friday, June 1st, the GNR are empowered to impose fines on property owners who have not cleared their land of scrub – if the owners can be identified.

The president of the National Federation of Forest Owners' Associations agrees the work needs to be done to reduce the fire risk but, "much, much remains to be done," mostly on land where the owners live far away or where nobody knows who the owners are.”

Three doctors are being tried for defrauding the State by signing false clinical reports to enable patients to receive invalidity pensions.

The scheme had cost taxpayers at least €39,000 before it was uncovered.

The parliamentary committee, established to look into the hundreds of millions of taxpayer euros that have been handed over to EDP as part of the dodgy CMEC deal, has published the list of people from whom it wants to hear evidence.

The Left Bloc has submitted a request that the committee calls all the prime ministers since and including Durão Barroso but excluding the current PM, António Costa.

The British trainee pilot who died in October 2017 after his ultralite aircraft crashed near Quelfes, Olhão, was not authorised to fly in Portugal, nor was the aircraft that took off from an unlicensed runway.

The stark conclusions are contained in accident report now published by Portugal’s air accident inspectorate, GPIAAF.

A 16-year-old teenager, thought to be Portuguese, plunged to his death from the Rocha Negra cliff to the east of Praia da Luz, in Lagos.

The only witness was a girl who was with him on the clifftop who raised the alarm at around 7.00 pm on Tuesday evening after the 100 metre fall.