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“The time for this strike is over”. This is the message of the government following the decision by SIMM (the smallest syndicate involved in the nationwide truckers strike)late last night to go [...]

The much-reviled meeting in Lisbon yesterday (Saturday) of extreme right-wing groups from across Europe saw hundreds take to the streets in protest while only 70 so-called ‘neo-nazis’ actually [...]

A young British trainee firefighter is fighting for his life in Madeira after an unexplained fall from a hotel balcony. 26-year-old Oliver Hillier has had emergency surgery and is in an induced [...]

British holidaymakers are being warned of the dire consequences of Portugal’s looming truckers’ strike, days before it has even started. Just as local Portuguese started a ‘rush to the pumps’ to [...]

There is further mystery in the Algarve this weekend as a second anonymous ‘floater’ has been found, without any missing person report having been filed. The ‘new’ body was discovered early on [...]

The body of a man with an axe lodged in his head has been found in a private house in Pereira, a parish in the borough of Barcelos. Authorities “suspect aggression”, said early reports, [...]

The Revive Programme – designed to recover rundown monuments while keeping them in State ownership – has bagged over a million euros in rental income from just 17 sites. With another [...]

Portugal ‘most dangerous road’ is not the EN125 – despite what Algarvians may think. There are far more scary thoroughfares, most of them in the Lisbon area – the absolute worst of [...]

UPDATES ON THIS FIRE CAN BE FOUND HERE: A massive fire stretching 25 km has been raging through the night between the central Portuguese boroughs of Vila de Rei and Mação – and is still [...]

Seven planes are battling a wildfire that broke out at 3.30 this afternoon in an area close to the Vale da Telha development, outside Aljezur. With a change in the wind, locals fear the blaze [...]