Not content with pissing off just about everyone he comes in contact with in the Algarve, Environment Minister, João Matos Fernandes, has performed true to form after announcing just €250,000 in central government aid to repair what, at minimum, is €7 million of front line damage wreaked by recent storms and tornados - and that is just in Faro.The Social Democratic Party in Faro, having seen the lame performance of Faro's mayor, Rogério Bacalhau, as he followed the minister while on a visit to damaged areas on Culatra and Faro Island, said the miserly sum was "ridiculous and insulting."
Environmental organisation, Zero, has blasted the Minister of the Environment for an illegal, misguided and bizarre plan to dump 30,000 m3 of pulp mill waste from the Tagus river bed onto to highly protected land.
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Many leading brands of water supplied in plastic bottles are contaminated with tiny particles that are seeping in during bottling, according to a major study involving samples from nine countries.
The concession holder for Lisbon’s deteriorating Ponte 25 de Abril, Lusoponte, "has already paid for the maintenance of the bridge," says Ferreira Amaral, the company’s president.
Members of the Tavira GNR have arrested a 45-year-old man wanted in connection with the theft of €230,000 in cash, the property of a local pensioner.
Despite general advice for everyone to stay away from Portugal’s cliffs and beaches, a Brazilian man has died under a rock fall that also left a German teenager badly injured.
The PM has extended the deadline after which property owners can be fined for not clearing scrub and trees around their properties.
