The government is planning to drop the upgrade work planned for the Algarve’s railway line in its new version of the Strategic Plan for Transport and Investment (PETI), a document revised and submitted by Infraestruturas de Portugal to the detriment of the Algarve.
The company quotes cost savings from the scrapping of the electrification of the line between Vila Real de Santo António and Lagos and the abandonment of the Faro airport rail link.
The General Inspectorate of Health Activities (IGAS) is monitoring the investigation set up by the Central Hospital of the Algarve’s management to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of Faro patient Sr Sebastião Pereira.
The patient had suffered a stroke at Faro Hospital and was transferred to Hospital São José in Lisbon which refused to admit him.
Spanish firefighters welcomed the heavy rainfall on Tuesday which helped extinguish wildfires which had been raging for more than a week in the north of the country.
Unseasonal warm weather and high winds set the conditions for more than 200 fires in sparsely populated Cantabria and Asturias characterised by mountain valleys.
Albufeira council is becoming immune to the affects of local flooding as last night’s downpour, leaving 20cms of water in some parts of the downtown area, was referred to as 'quite normal for the time of year.'
The heavy rain, which caused minor flooding in Albufeira on Monday evening, has not affected the council’s preparations for the massive New Year's Eve party at which tens of thousands of tourists are expected.
Drones will be put to use to track the Iberian lynx, the world’s most endangered cat, as part of the efforts to re-establish the species in the wild.
Conservationists hope the use of drone technology will eventually replace the need for the lynx to wear radio devices on collars.
Paulo Portas is standing down from the Presidency of the much diminished CDS-PP party.
The politician, whose style has often be called slippery, arrogant and self-important, leaves power with the Ferrostaal submarine affair staining his good character and the suspicion that he conveniently ignored the corruption surrounding his Golden Visa programme that saw 11 people arrested in Operation Labyrinth.
The Britsh government's Foreign Secretary has been advised to take urgent action and reunite political refugee with his family in Britain and prevent extradition from Portugal to India, according to the Sikh Federation of the UK.
More than 120 MPs have been contacted by constituents across the UK in the last 5 days to pressure Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary to demand the Portuguese authorities reunite a 42-year old man with his family in the West Midlands.
Environmental organisation Quercus has reviewed the best and the worst environmental aspects of 2015 and presents the prospects for the year 2016, while mysteriously avoiding the subject of oil and gas exploration in the Algarve.
The worst environmental aspects for Portugal in 2015 include pollution discharges in the Tagus river, unfeasible municipal waste recycling targets in PERSU2020, the adverse impacts of the new afforestation scheme which increases new eucalyptus plantations at the expense of native forest, laws that enable potential polluters to avoid environmental impact assessments and the general slack standards employed by government to control polluters.
