The third child of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank was born in a Lisbon hospital in early August. The baby is the couple’s first child to be born in Portugal, where the family has divided their time between here and the UK since 2022. Yesterday, the couple revealed her name: Adelaide.
A 48-year-old man has been arrested by Portugal’s Polícia Judiciária (PJ) for his involvement in an attempted murder targeting a 19-year-old man and his 37-year-old father in Beja on 26 March. The suspect, who had been on the run since the incident, has now voluntarily handed himself in to the authorities.
Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service (MP) has charged Albufeira mayor Rui Cristina, of the populist Chega party, with discrimination and incitement to hatred and violence over remarks he made at a Municipal Assembly meeting last year, the Regional Prosecutor’s Office revealed on Monday, 17th August. The mayor has since responded, saying he was merely making “political” statements and claiming he is being “persecuted”.
The president of the Algarve’s regional health board, the Local Health Unit (ULS), has disputed emergency department waiting times published on the SNS Portal for Faro and Portimão hospitals, blaming the figures on errors in the computer system.
Finlay Tarling, a 19-year-old Welsh cyclist, died on Friday afternoon, 14 August during the eighth stage of the Volta a Portugal in Ponte de Lima, in Northern Portugal, after colliding with a goods van travelling in the opposite direction to the race. The race was subsequently suspended.
Former President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has praised healthcare professionals and paramedics from the National Institute for Medical Emergency (INEM) after being discharged from Faro Hospital, where he was treated on Wednesday, 12th August, after feeling unwell and subsequently fainting while eating at a restaurant in Monte Gordo.
More than 300 people gathered yesterday at Arraial beach in Tavira to watch the solar eclipse, in an event that attracted a larger-than-expected crowd, according to Filipa Vargas, of the Tavira Ciência Viva Science Centre, who organised the event.
A new €3.2 million package of funding for the rehabilitation of the coastline and waterways will benefit eight Algarve municipalities affected by severe weather at the beginning of this year, the Government announced today, 12 August.
