An afternoon picnic enjoyed by 25 tourists ended with them stranded on Centianes beach, Lagoa when the tide rose.
The group of English, French and German holidaymakers, along with four children, were picnicking at the western side of the beach and simply got cut off.
Temperatures are set to drop sharply this coming weekend, by 4 to 8 °C according to Portugal’s weather service.
Due to a depression off the west coast west of the Iberian Peninsula, which slowly is shifting south, there will be intermittent rain from today, November 1st, until the weekend, most likely in coastal regions. This is deliberately designed to annoy those wishing to hang out their washing.
An evangelical minister has been elected mayor of the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro.
Elsewhere in the country, the municipal election results saw the rise of other rightwing candidates.
The Secretary of State for the Environment wants IKEA to use the waste water from the new Olhão – Faro sewage treatment works for heating and cooling systems and for irrigation of the store’s surrounding green spaces.
None of this is in the plan but Carlos Manuel Martins has used such a system at the treatment plant at Freilas where he was the manager and said the system is useable in the Algarve.
The number of immigrants to Portugal obtaining residence permits in 2015 has risen with 37,851 permits issued, 2,586 more than in 2014.
The National Statistics Institute (INE) released figures obtained from the Foreigners and Borders Service which showed that Brazilians led the field with 5,716 permits issued, followed by the Chinese with 2,575, Romanians with 2,569, French with 2,495 and Cape Verdeans with 2,025.
The former president of the European Commission, Portugal’s José Manuel Barroso, has been cleared by an internal ethics committee of charges of breaking ‘duties of integrity and discression’ when he joined Goldman Sachs in a move that provoked outrage and petition.
Despite concluding that Barroso technically was in the clear, the committee members agreed that the former president "had not demonstrated the insight that can be expected from someone who held the position that he held for so many years."
Sérgio Monteiro has been given three month contract extension to lead the Novo Banco sale process.
The Bank of Portugal already has paid Monteiro €304,000 to front the sale negotiations but the consultant is to stay on until January 2017 even though final offers have to be submitted by November 4th and a decison expected soon thereafter.
Zoomarine is funding volunteers to plant 5,800 trees to make up some of the losses resulting from the fires this summer.
Teams are to join "Operation Green Mountain" on November 5th and plant the trees at Herdade do São Bom Homem, Silves.
