The driver and passenger of the vehicle that ploughed into a woman who was walking at the side of the EN125 near Algarve Shopping just after 05.30 last Saturday morning have been traced and arrested.
Drivers who witnessed who saw the 41-year-old pedestrian being hit, stopped to help her and called emergency services. Paramedics tried for an hour to save her life but she died at the roadside.
In April this year, the government said that toll rates on the Algarve’s A22 ‘Via do Infante’ motorway would drop "this summer" to ease the burden on the alternative EN125 which is undergoing major roadworks.
Other formerly free SCUT roads also would benefit from toll reductions and that negotiations would ensure all the affected roads would have tolls reduced at the same time.
Britain’s oldest ally has been trying to make sense of the hullabaloo over the referendum, but it hasn’t been easy.
For example, last weekend Tony Blair said Britain might want to change its mind. And he was talking about Brexit, not the Chilcot report.
Paris is sprucing itself up to attract investors in the wake of the Brexit result.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls revealed a series of measures to bolster the capital’s business appeal.
The president of the Algarve Tourist Board has met key partners from the regional tourism industry to “jointly analyse the challenges facing the Algarve with exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union."
The British are Portugal’s biggest tourist group accounting for 70% of the 8.3 million annual overnight stays in registered accommodation - and an equivalent percentage of the nights spent in unlicensed accommodation.
Plastic products dumped in British seas are carried to the Arctic region in two years’ time.
The scientists behind the study say that marine plastic pollution does “extreme harm” to the fragile polar environment.
The D&B new business barometer has swung the wrong way with fewer new businesses opening and an increase in company closures.
Between January and June this year, for every company that closed, three were opened. This might look like good news but the number of new business openings has dropped 4% compared to the same six month period in 2015 with company closures increasing 1.2%.
Lourenço, the 'miracle baby' born in Lisbon to his brain-dead mother, Sandra Pedro, has left the neonatal unit at the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital in Lisbon and gone home with his father.
The baby has been under the care of hospital staff for a month while a custody battle threatened to spoil the heart-warming story of Lourenço whose mother has suffered a brain haemorrhage when six months pregnant.
