Portugal’s rail service company, Comboios de Portugal, is following the ‘retro’ trend sweeping through the transport industry by converting some old carriages into a 1940s-style travel experience.
The carriages were in use between 1949 and 1977 and have been restored by the rail company to start a 'time travel' service from Oporto’s São Bento station to Tua in Bragança along the picturesque Douro valley.
The company responsible for the emergency communication system that failed to function during significant periods of the devastating Pedrógão Grande fire claimed that the SIRESP system, "lived up to the complexity of the theatre of operations."
SIRESP, a private company that manages the state's emergency communications network, says that "there was no interruption in the operation of the network" nor "was there any station that was left without service as a result of the fire" that killed 64 people.
One person died and six were injured in a crash involving three vehicles on the EN125’s Arade Bridge near Portimão in the early hours of Tuesday morning, June 27.
The collision between three cars at the Ponte Nova do Arade, at about 02.40 resulted in the road being cut off as the emergency services dealt with the dead man, the injured and the extensive wreckage.
Sunday night out in Albufeira easily could have turned into a riot as 50 anti-riot police dealt with 600 - 1,000 revellers who had spilled out into the street after a bar room fight was tacked by officers with batons.
A low number of PSP police were injured as they intervened in the general disorder along the infamous ‘strip’ and used batons to clear people from the area.
The young victims of unspeakable cruelty were uncovered by anthropologists at the universities of Coimbra and Évora who discovered three medieval skeletons, with their hands and feet buried nearby.
The victims of this violent punishment were aged between 18 and 35 and were found by the anthropologist, Teresa Fernandes, of the University of Évora during "excavations carried out in 2001 in the medieval necropolis of Rossio do Marquês de Pombal, in Estremoz which dates from the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries."
A group of people who set fire to the horns of a bull last Saturday morning are now subject to a criminal investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
The Festa da Amizade in Benavente was anything but friendly for the unfortunate animal which was tied to a pole while a group of men set light to inflammable material on its horns.
Olhão locals recently have put up with 'the Berlin Wall', 'Pina's Erection,' the scheduled removal of the waterfront parks and a constant flow of raw sewage into the fishing harbour but all focus now is on a city water tower which gives the appearance of being on the point of rupture and collapse.
Olhão council has stated that there is no risk associated with the cracked and discoloured tower that locals reckon is dangerous after years of zero investment.
Portugal’s authorities are investigating the alleged theft of funds that belonged to Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA.
The missing money was channelled through Banco Espírito Santo between 2009 and 2014 - the year in which the bank went bust.
