The last piece of the retail jigsaw at the IKEA-owned retail centre near Loulé has been slotted into place with the opening of a Leroy Merlin store.
The new business covers one hectare and claims to be the largest household goods store in the region.
Small ads website, OLX, is 'helping police with their inquiries' after a customer posted a classified ad to try and sell an Iberian Lynx.
The surprising offer of a wild animal, supposedly captured in Alcoutim, was posted on Monday, December 11th and prompted the authorities to try and identify the person who posted the ad in order to see if the sale was genuine, or a hoax.
As part of the One Planet summit and in a landmark decision to encourage a shift to renewable energy sources, the World Bank has announced that it will “no longer finance upstream oil and gas after 2019."
The bank provides financial and technical support to developing countries but has drawn a new line in the sand over oil and gas development projects as its president addressed the One Planet climate change summi, pulled together by France’s president Macron, the president of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, and United Nations Secretary-General, Portugal’s former PM, António Guterres.
The Ministry of Agriculture has estimated that at least 500,000 animals died in Portugal’s devastating fires this summer.
In response to questions posed by the People Animals Nature party’s MP, André Silva, the Ministry estimates that by the end of October, more than half a million birds, cattle, sheep and pigs had died.
Well aware that CTT - Correios de Portugal - is struggling to hit targets, set in place as part of its privatisation, the government has decided to set up a working group in the expectation that a new set of measures will solve the Post Office's structural problems.
The Government will create a "work programme" by the end of March 2018 to analyse CTT’s service, to suggest improvements and, more concerningly for CTT's management, to look at the contractual responsibilities in the concession agreement.
The Roman temple in Évora today started to have its scaffolding removed after a €50,000 conservation project.
The Regional Directorate of Culture for the Alentejo announced the completion of the work which has taken four months and will leave the Temple of Diana* in a secure state.
Eleven driving license fraudsters have received prison sentences in a judgment that has taken two and a half years since the trial started.
The corruption trial heard by judges in Bragança, has resulted in the conviction of the ringleaders who defrauded the State of around €5 million.
Teams from the ‘Regimento de Engenharia Militar nº 1’ based at the Tancos military base is to travel to the Castro Marim council area to clear agricultural roads and tracks.
The deal was struck last year in which the council pays the Engineering Regiment for fuel, lodging and materials while the soldiers get experience in teamwork and use of heavy machinery in often tricky locations.
