American coffee retailer, Starbucks, controls more than 15,000 stores worldwide but even this is not enough with the company determined to expand in Portugal.
The Algarve is to host two Starbucks outlets, one in the new Mar Shopping zone at the IKEA site near Loulé and the other at Forum Algarve in Faro.
A magnitude-3 earthquake struck the Algarve this evening, just after 7pm, with an epicenter about eight kilometres northwest of Portimão, according to the Portuguese weather service.
According to the institute responsible for monitoring seismic activity in Portugal, the shock was felt in a wide area and reported by several people on social media.
The government does not know whether or not there was a theft of arms and explosives from military stores near Santarém.
Catarina Martins, (pictured), the Left Bloc leader, said today that "We can not have the Government saying that it does not know if there was or not a theft from Tancos."
More than 614,000 vehicles failed their inspections last year, a 10.5% failure rate for the 5.8 million vehicles inspected in Portugal.
The National Association of Automobile Inspection Centers said that the main causes of vehicle inspection failures in 2016 were faulty lights and electrical equipment, dodgy steering, clapped out suspension and illegally bald tyres.
Two drivers died in a road accident that resulted in the busy IC1 being cut in both directions at Santana da Serra, just over the Algarve border in the Alentejo region.
The head-on collision between two passenger cars instantly killed the two drivers, a man and a woman.
Over the past two years or more, 194 tons of waste electrical and electronic equipment has been collected from the Algarve's residents. This has resulted in a cheque for €14,500 - made out to the Algarve’s firefighters.
Since May 2015, the Algarve’s Bombeiros stations have been part of the collection network for the Portuguese Association for Waste Management (Amb3E) as part of an Algar-managed campaign.
The Algarve’s hot summer has not damaged what will be a record harvest with predictions from the region’s Wine Commission of of an increase of 20% over the 2016 figure.
After winter and spring characterised by low rainfall and some relative humidity, all of which led to good vine development, high temperatures in July accelerated the maturation of the grapes, making an early harvest necessary.
Olhão’s embattled mayor, António Pina, continues to pull vote-winning rabbits out of the hat with today’s announcement that telecoms giant, Altice, is to set up a facility in the Algarve city.
As part of the company's decentralisation programme, put into effect under new owner Patrick Drahi, Altice Labs is setting up in one of the Algarve’s poorest areas.
