Paul Rees
The nation’s bikers have protested. Thousands of motorcyclists gathered outside parliament to witness the delivery of a manifesto in which it is claimed that dodgy road accidents statistics can not be used to create “unjustified measures.”The measures in question include the mandatory motorbike roadworthiness inspections which the bikers consider a farce. Anyway, the motorbike accident figures have been fiddled, claim the nation’s ‘motards’
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The forest maintenance row continues between the country’s mayors and the government. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Eduardo Cabrita, has assured municipalities that they will be reimbursed for ‘almost everything’ they spend cleaning forests on private land.
The ceremony took place in Odemira, at the Intermunicipal Assembly of the association which promotes local health policies in line with the World Health Organisation guidelines.
Michał Kwiatwkowski (Team Sky) took victory on the final stage of the Volta ao Algarve, sealing the general clas-sification at the same time. Portugal's Ruben Guerreiro (Trek-Segafredo) and the Belgian, Serge Pauwels (Team Dimension Data), completed the podium on the tough hilltop finish at Malhão, reports Cycling News.
The homeless man who died yards from the entrance to Parliament, as temperatures plunged in central London, had worked as a model, was Portuguese and has been deported twice from Britain to Portugal. 
Novo Banco’s losses could reach €1 billion in 2017 with the Resolution Fund on alert to inject more capital which it is unlikely to have.
An appeal has been sent in by afpop, the organiser of Operation SHOCK, which already has supplied defibrillators to many of the Algarve's Bombeiros commands.
A new regulation published by Portimão council states that anyone leaving animals grazing on unfenced open ground can be fined between €100 and €2,500.
