The ‘Spring Boogie 2016’ festival starts this coming weekend at the Alvor aerodrome in Portimão.

Around 250 skydivers are expected to turn up on Saturday, April 2nd to the event organised by Skydive Algarve and participants are booked in from Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Ireand Norway, the UK, Spain and Portugal.

On May 12 the port of Olhão is to host an exercise to demonstrate how the Algarve will react to oil pollution hitting the Algarve's pristine shoreline.

‘Olhão 2016’ is being jointly organised by the Southern Region of the National Maritime Department, The National Protection Autority, Olhão council and Docapesca.

Tourists visiting Falésia beach in Albufeira, this Easter weekend were faced with a collapsed wooden stairway, destroyed in the November 1st storm last year

Many clambered down with some difficulty but none were impressed that six months later, this essential access still lay in ruins.

The Troika left Portugal in June 2014, but despite high hopes that this would herald an end to wage capping, a year later Portuguese workers were earning the same as they did two years before.

in the year to April last year, workers' base salary was €950, virtually the same as recorded in April 2012, despite the end of civil service salary reductions.

A British holidaymaker has been rescued from the sea off Madeira after attempting to swim to her cruise liner after it had left port.

Susan Brown, a 65-year-old, had an argument with her husband over whether to cut short their luxury cruise holiday and later told hospital staff that she had jumped into the water to swim to her cruise ship as she thought her husband had changed his mind over their plan to abort their holiday and that he was on board the Marco Polo.

The Mercedes Sprinter van which crashed head-on into an Italian meat lorry, causing the death of 12 Portuguese travelling from Romont in Switzerland to Portugal, was registered for only six occupants.
 
Reports suggest that the Mercedes had been adapted to seat passengers on folding chairs placed in the loading space, which is in breach of the insurance conditions.

Twelve Portuguese are reported to have died on impact as the Mercedes Sprinter van in which they were travelling through France hit an oncoming lorry head-on.

The location of the crash is Moulins, Allier in central France and the bodies have been taken to Montbeugny in the Auvergne as families are contacted in Portugal.

German auto manufacturer VW said it is to recall some 800,000 vehicles worldwide due to a potential foot pedal problem.

More than half of the vehicles are the Porsche Cayenne built from 2011 to 2016 and the remainder are the Toureg model.