An accident by the pool last Summer at her holiday accommodation near Faro, has left British tourist Debbie Aspinall paralysed from the waist down.

The GNR caught and subsequently arrested a 40 year old man for lighting a forest fire close to the Guadiana River, in Alcoutim.

As is becoming a regular occurence, two more tons of hashish and a speedboat were seized off the coast of the Algarve at dawn this morning, in a joint (excuse the pun!) operation by the Maritime and Navy Police.

Passport Office workers across the UK are set to strike for five weeks from early April, which is likely to have a ‘significant impact’ on delivery times of passport applications and renewals.

Originally announced as a 'surface metro' between Loulé, Faro and Olhão, the proposal is actually for a Metrobus, in other words an electric bus, with its own lanes.

The National Health Service (SNS) have announced that the deadline for using prescriptions and prescriptions for exams will be extended to 12 months, explaining that this is intended to reduce the 'bureaucratic tasks' of doctors.

Police in Albufeira have seized 1.2 tonnes of cocaine inside a truck, about to leave for the road, and arrested six men from different countries - Brazil, Croatia, Italy and Portugal - thought to be part of a “powerful” drugs network.

According to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA ), a 3.7 Richter earthquake occured in Albufeira and Loulé, 03:35am this morning.