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.
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 PM has extended the deadline after which property owners can be fined for not clearing scrub and trees around their properties.
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.
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.
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.
