The Algarve Wine Commission in Lagoa now operates the only winemaking laboratory in the region, helping winemakers improve their product before it is bottled.
Tests are available not only to the region’s blooming wine sector producers, but also to any public or private body that wants to have wine analysed. Simply complete an analysis request form, send in the sample and the results will be emailed.
Of a total of 1,725 reports received last year by the Corruption Prevention Council (CPC), in 405 there was sufficient evidence of a crime committed by a government official, to lead to prosecution and conviction.
The rain is coming. From tomorrow afternoon, Monday 26th, the Algarve should get some rain which will spread north over the next few days.
A 34-year-old man, living in Tavira, was detained by the PSP on suspicion of some mid-range drug trafficking.
More and more inhabitants of Portugal’s Terceira Island are suffering from deadly diseases, especially cancer, at rates far out of sync with the rest of the Azores archipelago. Terceira is no different from the other islands, except in one thing. Russia-based video agency RUPTLY has carried out an exclusive investigation into this matter, writes the EU Times.
The Lajes Airbase on Terceira Island has hosted the United States’ 65th Air Base Group for decades now. Ever since World War II it has been considered one of the most convenient bases: an airstrip in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, strategically situated between the US and Europe.
“He was a Portuguese national who had been in our emergency centre for some time and was being helped to find a job,” said a spokesperson from the Connection charity in central London.
Architects across the country are appalled that a law enabling around 4,000 civil engineers to submit and sign-off architectural projects, has been passed by the review committee. 
The Teflon Angolan, Álvaro Sobrinho, has had his office in Portugal searched on the orders of the Attorney General's Office as part of Operation Lex, involving Judge Rui Rangel and other defendants.
