Vila do Bispo council has won the regional prize for Municipality of the Year Award 2017, due its Sagres U-boat project.
The municipality sent in its project, hoping to get some sort of recognition but mayor Adelino Soares was delighted to receive first prize from the panel at the University of Minho.
Alcoutim council is continuing with its financial juggling trick of keeping local taxes at the lowest possible level while recognising its need for income to run essential local services.
The council knows that it must make living in the Alcoutim municipality as reasonably priced as possible and, with this in mind, continues to forego the collection of a 5% income tax supplement from residents and is keeping municipal taxes at the lowest level - just 0.3%.
The arrest and pending extradition reported yesterday of a Briton living in Almancil (here) was of the Welsh 1980s golfing champion, Duncan Evans, who was nabbed by police on the fairway of a Quinta do Lago course.
Evans is wanted in the UK for a €22 million carousel VAT fraud after losing an appeal in June 2016.
The A4E - Airlines for Europe - association warned today of "huge delays" for incoming passengers who face queues of up to four hours at Lisbon airport and others in Spain, France, Italy and Belgium.
In today’s statement, the association noted that thousands of flights recently have had to be been postponed at European airports because of the new processing control procedures that leave many unable to get through border control in time.
A fire in a warehouse unit near the Algarve Shopping centre in Guia took hold last night but the fire service was hampered by a seriously congested EN125 road, standpipes with no water and the confusion that the firefighters had been called to a forest fire, not to a burning building.
Despite this, the Albufeira firefighters arrived in less than ten minutes but found the Neoparts warehouse fully ablaze with around 20 vehicles inside, along with tyres and car components.
After more than a month, the list of names of those who died in the Pedrógão Grande fire has been released by the Attorney General.
Despite swirling rumours and deepening suspicion that there were more deaths than originally reported, the final figure remains at 64, with the proviso by the Attorney General’s office this this figure is to "the best of its knowledge."
Anglo Portuguese police cooperation has resulted in the arrest of a man in Almancil said to be involved in a multi-million money laundering case.
The Judicial Police identified and arrested the man, thought to be a Briton, while liaising with their British counterparts.
Irish low-cost airline, Ryanair is to review its baggage policy but one of its top men is irritated that customers have become adept at thwarting the airline’s money-grabbing policies.
The airline's chief money man explained that customers are abusing the system by making their toddlers drag suitcases onboard to escape baggage fees.
