The last of three developments at the retail site near Loulé is to open on November 23rd at 5pm.

The Designer Outlet is the first in Europe to be integrated with an IKEA store, a shopping centre and an outdoor leisure area.

The State prosecution service has filed charges against two Ukrainians, aged 40 and 46, for murdering and robbing a homeless man in Loulé this April.

The fatal attack during which a 54-year-old fellow Ukrainian was strangled to death, took place near the municipal stadium in Loulé.

Four people now have died as a result of contracting legionnaires’ disease at the San Francisco Xavier Hospital in Lisbon.

The Judicial Police and the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action are investigating possible negligence in the hospital’s cleaning regime.

easyJet has announced the appointment of Johan Lundgren as the airline’s new Chief Eecutive.

This follows the announcement on 17 July that Carolyn McCall had advised the Board of her intention to leave easyJet to become the head of ITV plc.

Portugal is to use a design ‘reminiscent of the ocean’ as the official logo for the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest, being hosted in Lisbon next year.

The blurb explains that ‘Portugal has always connected Europe with the rest of the world across the ocean, and for 500 years Lisbon has been the centre of many the most important sea routes in the world.’

Students working during their holidays will no longer lose other benefits such as family allowance and scholarships.

In a welcome move that will help stop the current necessity for student only to look for cash-in-hand jobs, the government appears to have identified the problem and has done something about it.

Caixa Geral de Depósitos finally has rid itself of one of the most catastrophic investments in the bank’s history with the sale of Artlant for an undisclosed sum.

The giant plant in Sines has been sold to the Thai company, Indorama Ventures, thus enabling the bank to draw a line under this shameful episode that has cost Portugal's taxpayers around half a billion euros.

“Tax revenue from local landlords in the Alojamento Local (AL) tourist rental scheme “has almost doubled in about two years,” according to the Secretary of State for Tourism, Ana Mendes Godinho.

The rise from €69 million in 2015, to €123 million in 2017*, (up 78%) has been the result of property owners registering on the AL scheme due to Godinho’s campaigns to integrate owners into formal economy.