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.
A police operation has been carried out in Tavira and Olhão as part of the investigation into the theft after 13 search warrants were issued for homes, a commercial establishment and eight vehicles as well as an arrest warrant.
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 wounded woman was airlifted from a remote beach in the Sintra area and flown to hospital but the 23-year-old man, Marcos Augusto Oliveira Santos, having suffered head injuries from the falling rocks, died when he lay, despite attempts by an emergency medical team to resuscitate him.
The PM has extended the deadline after which property owners can be fined for not clearing scrub and trees around their properties.António Costa announced today the postponement of fines on the day the first deadline was reached, March 15th.
One of the benefits of the current run of lousy weather is that Portugal has been self sufficient in renewable energy for three consecutive days.The Portuguese Association of Renewable Energies (APREN) said that from 16:00 on Friday, 9 March and 13.00 on Monday, 12 March, electricity consumption in Portugal was entirely from renewable resources.
Faro court has sentenced the man who strangled his girlfriend with a flex and then hid her body for more than 24 hours, to 19 years and four months in prison.After reading the ruling, the presiding judge turned to 38-year-old Miguel Silva and called his actions, "hideous" and "incomprehensible," even though the court did not give him the maximum sentence of 25 years.
The mayor of Castro Marim is prepared to “take to the streets” along with a civic group, to complain about the state of the eastern section of the EN125.
Francisco Amaral was being interviewed about the degraded state of the EN125, which, “should shame any Portuguese citizen.”
An ambulance boat serving the island communities of the Ria Formosa has another year's funding with Faro and Olhão councils joining the Emergency Ambulance Service and the Maritime Authority to ensure continuity.
The vessel, built and paid for by Faro council in 2007, has cost between €150,000 and €300,000 to date but, due to a dispute over operational funding, sat doing nothing for its first six years.
“We cannot expect more from Europe without giving more to Europe”, said Portugal's Prime Minister, António Costa, “Portugal is ready to increase its contribution” to the budget, he told MEPs at a debate on the future of Europe.Costa reiterated his support for cohesion and agriculture policies, saying that through them “Europe has reached every village, every part of the territory, from the great metropolis to the outermost regions”, bringing the EU into the daily lives of its citizens.
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