Lagoa council says it is committed to bringing back the soul to Fatacil* at the 36th edition of the exhibition and music festival which in recent years has been allowed to slide into deficit and indifference.
The fair this year (21 to 30 August) is hosting about 700 exhibitors, of which half are new to the venue and all aim to represent the best the Algarve offers in the categories of handicraft, tourism, agriculture, trade and industry.
José Sócrates' rather fine Lisbon apartment, valued at around €300,000, has been seized by Finanças over an unpaid tax bill.
The former PM, still in jail in Évora pending charges of money laundering, tax fraud and corruption, managed in January to secure a €250,000 mortgage on the property, courtesy of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, but the apartment soon will be auctioned off if the debt around €5,800 is not settled.
Police, councils and other public bodies in the UK made a total of 517,208 applications to study peoples’ email, internet and phone records last year.
The applications let authorities see “who, when and where” someone contacted someone else although not the content of the communication.
French ferry workers have taken over two ships and partied away to protest the loss of their jobs.
With MyFerryLink due to transfer the ferries to Danish operator DFDS, the majority of the 600 French workers were due join the dole queue.
Greek protesters threw stones and petrol bombs at police in front of parliament on Wednesday before the key vote on the bailout deal.
Police responded with tear gas, sending hundreds of people fleeing in central Athens.
Quercus, the 'Gold Quality' awarding body for Portugal’s beaches now is questioning the Gold status for three beaches about which complaints have been made - in the Algarve the beach in question is Dona Ana in the Lagos council area.
The president of Quercus says that work done by the government at one of the Algarve most internationally recognisable beaches means that the prestigious award will be removed.
The Bank of Portugal has rejected a carefully thought out offer from Portugal’s stock market regulator to solve the €500 million problem held by over 2,000 ripped-off BES depositors
Carlos Costa, the governor of the Bank of Portugal seems happy to continue to reject any offers designed to resolve the depositors' issue until Novo Banco is sold off at which point he can retreat into the obscurity from which he emerged.
Anyone remember the Tamworth Two? They were little piggies who escaped on their journey to a British abattoir and were on the run for about a week before they were apprehended.
A farmer in Poland has topped that adventure with his cow Matylda who managed to evade capture for a full two years.
