The police are perturbed at events and public reaction surrounding two recent cases where dogs appear to have been thrown off the cliffs near Ferragudo, Lagoa. As for finding the culprits, the authorities are 'looking into it.'
Last Saturday morning, firefighters and officers of the Marine Police were called as a dog was spotted lying injured half way down a cliff.
Paulo Portas swept through this weekend’s Mundo Abreu travel fair in an extended media opportunity and declared that "Portugal clearly is trendy.”
With his open neck shirt allowing a deeply untrendy display of silvery tufts of chest hair the deputy prime minister suggested to the trailing media that Portugal is a country that currently is in 'fashion', but also that its tourism offering is beyond mere fashion and is sustainable, and that there are very good reasons to visit.'
Another computer hacking scam has been exposed.
Criminals are sending emails with an ‘invoice’ attached which really is malware designed to access personal information such as banking and financial details.
Spain’s autonomous region of Catalonia is to challenge the country’s social norms by becoming the first region in Spain to change its working hours.
The reform would see working times more closely resemble the rest of Europe with hours streamlined into something similar to nine to five.
The UK smoothie company Innocent Drinks is on a roll in conquering Europe.
The firm, which was founded by three Cambridge graduates but subsequently sold into the embrace of Coca-Cola, has reported European revenues of more than £100 million.
Portugal’s Ministry of Health, in a last ditch effort to fill the increasing vacancy list for family Doctors to work in Portugal, took advertising space in publications covering Andalusia, Extremadura and Castile & Leon in Spain, extolling the benefits for Spanish Doctors moving over the border to work in Portugal's national haelth system.
Spanish doctors understandably have rejected the opportunity to halve their salaries, leaving Minister Paulo Macedo’s astoundingly foolish and wasteful idea as a tribute to his strategic skills.
April 16th sees the start of a new regime for Portugal’s filling stations as the January law, specifying that cheap fuel must be supplied, comes into play.
Low cost diesel and petrol must be offered at all but the smallest filling stations, the low cost being attained by supplying fuel without additives.
As the build up to the swimming season starts with beaches being prepared and concession soon to open, a reminder that 'we are not alone' when bathing was evident in the waters near Tavira.
A shark at least two metres long was spotted by fishermen on the jetty close to the beaches at the entrance of the river Gilão.
