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A five-goal blitz by SC Olhanense took them to the top of the Campeonato de Portugal Division D as the two teams above them – Louletano and Alverca – dropped points. The unfortunate visitors to [...]

Asbestos angst continues up and down the country, despite a government pledge to remove the potentially harmful building component from schools and public buildings. Say reports, asbestos is [...]

A second BA plane in a matter of days has been forced to make an emergency landing, this time in Porto. The official line is that the incident was a due to a technical issue. Say UK tabloids, the [...]

The British-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce is holding its next Business Breakfast on Wednesday, October 23 at the Hilton Vilamoura As Cascatas Golf Resort & Spa, at 8.15am, under the theme [...]

On Wednesday, October 9, a small crowd of supporters gathered at Portimão airfield to watch a stalwart member of the Legion, Shirley Blackman, make a tandem parachute jump from 15,000ft raising [...]

Castro Marim is launching a tender for the works to build a network of bicycle paths which will link the town to Praia Verde. Representing an €850,000 investment, the project involves creating [...]

Plans to lure 1500 emigrés back to Portugal – by offering them cash incentives – have hit the brick wall that critics always anticipated. The government decided earlier this week that [...]

The annual commemoration of the Implantation of the Republic of Portugal takes place on the public holiday of October 5. The Commemoration reminds us of the events of October 4 and 5, 1910. At [...]

Hopefully most of us will never encounter a situation whereby we will need the assistance of the emergency services. However, in case this becomes necessary, it is important to know how it [...]

In my previous column, I mentioned my concern that Portugal was being promoted in a somewhat overenthusiastic way and mentioned in way-too-many “best this” or “best that” lists all over the [...]