It is perhaps no coincidence that the importance of Portugal’s participation in the European Union has been emphasised in Lisbon this week by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. 

A woman died on Saturday following a home birth, after being transported to Portimão Hospital. Police later found the baby, lifeless, in a room of the house where the woman lived with her husband and two daughters.

On Friday, the GNR seized thousands of litres of fuel and arrested two men aged 24 and 35, and charged a third man, aged 44, with aiding drug trafficking in Santa Luzia, Tavira.

The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) have announced that the six dams that supply the Algarve are at 35% of their total water storage capacity, ensuring water supply for another year.

British tourism in Spain is under threat due to the implementation of new safety rules in accommodation, which came into force on December 2nd. These measures require stricter control of tourists' personal data, something that has already generated reactions of discontent in the United Kingdom, the main source market for tourists to Spain.

Rotas do Algarve have confirmed that as of this Saturday, December 7th, “normal road traffic conditions” at Ponte Nova, will be restored.

Christmas lights crashed in Lagos on Saturday night, after an exposed wire gave an electric shock to a 5 year old child, in the in Jardim da Constituição area.

After 2 months of investigations, the Tavira  GNR arrested a 59 year old man yesterday,  for growing cannabis and possession of a prohibited weapon.