At long last, Portugal’s French owned airports operator ANA is making an effort to breathe some life into Beja airport.
The site was converted to a civilian airport in 2011 but has been little used since despite its key position in the heart of the Alentejo where tourism and farming are the only two activities keeping the region ticking over.
A three car pile-up on the notorious EN125 in Odiáxere, Lagos injured five people and blocked the road for hours.
Two of the five were seriously hurt. According to the emergency services control in Faro the accident occurred shortly after 16:00 on Sunday and involved three cars in collision near the Arão turnoff.
A 45-year-old British man who was seriously injured in a parachuting incident on Sunday has died as a result of the accident.
Skydive Algarve which runs the centre at the Alvor aerodrome, Portimão is cooperating in an investigation while eye-witnesses to Sunday’s accident say the skydiver was caught by a strong gust of wind just as he approached the land and that he crashed into a wall.
Catarina Martins, of the recently empowered Left Bloc, declared today that the "Passos Coelho and Paulo Portas government is over."
The Left Bloc leader met António Costa, leader of the Socialist Party, this morning in what he described as a "very interesting” meeting.
A leading Irish banker is being held in the US facing extradition nine years after the bank he led was forced into government hands six years ago.
David Drumm, former chief exec at Anglo Irish bank, was in charge during the boom times of 2005 to 2008. But in 2009 the Irish government had to rescue it to the tune of more than €29 billion.
The pedestrian railway crossing which separates Olhão’s north and south was closed by the railway company Refer a year ago on the grounds of ‘health and safety,’ despite no known accidents since the railway line reached the town in 1904.
Contractors erected fences and dug up concrete access paths either side of the railway line to stop people from using the crossing, forcing them to use the road underpass instead.
The Captain of a Ryanair flight called for an emergency landing at Faro Airport on Sunday morning due to unspecified ‘technical issues’ on-board.
The flight, from the Spanish island of Lanzarote to Shannon airport in Ireland, touched down at Faro airport at around 9:30 and came to a halt without incident.
The government’s plan that every council should insist on a 40-hour working week from its workers has been found ‘unconstitutional.’
Most councils anyway had used a deliberate loophole in the legislation to avoid putting pressure on employees to work a full 40-hour week.
