Police, Civil Protection personnel and firemen today found the body of a woman who had been missing since Sunday night after her car left the road and plunged into a steep ravine near São Teotónio, Alentejo.
The accident appears to have been reported by the driver of the vehicle who suffered only slight injuries. The victim was his mother. The car left the clifftop between Barca and Cabo Sardão and plunged onto the rocks below.
Ripped-off overseas customers of Banco Espirito Santo demonstrated in central Paris on Saturday as there has been no resolution to claims that they were sold dodgy investments in the terminally sick bank when it was desperate for cash.
The group last came out in force in February in front of the Novo Banco’s Paris branch and in March they took their complaints en masse to the Portuguese embassy in the French capital.
On 27th April a young woman threw herself from an overpass over a railway line and was injured. PSP, who was aware of two other cases, has given advice to parents, writes Safe Communities Portugal.
Participating in a game called the 'Blue Whale' is believed to be the origin of this incident that which took place at Algarve railway line in the Ferreiras area of Albufeira.
The Secretary of State for Energy has confirmed that a payment scheme for the small amount of liquid left in returned gas bottles will start this year, but not on a bottle-by-bottle basis.
The government is insisting on moving forward with this lunatic measure that originally made it law that consumers were to be reimbursed for the precise weight of residual gas lying in the bottom of their returned bottles.
The Algarve continues to lead the country in the number of Blue Flag beaches, according to the 2017 list.
With one beach in, and one beach out in this year’s line up, both in Lagoa, the region sports 86 beaches that are up to internationally recognised standards.
Moncarapacho's Monterosa extra virgin olive oil has won two gold medals at the New York International Olive Oil Competition on April 27th, the most prestigious category: one with the monovarietal Monterosa Picual and the other with Monterosa Selection.
At the start of the week, the Algarve brand won a gold medal with the Monterosa Picual monovarietal in the Japan Olive Oil Competition and two silver medals with the Monterosa Maçanilha monovarietal and the Monterosa Selection.
Guarda’s abandoned Hotel Turismo for years has stood empty, a reminder of the State’s ill-conceived idea to turn this once-proud hotel into a training centre for hospitality workers.
Finally, a decision: to include the building in the Revive list of unused State assets offered to the market on advantageous terms.
According to the Labour Minister, Vieira da Silva, the end of March unemployment statistics represent "a moment of great significance" as the headline rate drops below the 10% mark for the first time since 2009.
The minister said today that the unemployment rate had fallen to 9.9%, due to “a job creation dynamic that many considered impossible".
