Heathcare in the Algarve is just fine, according to those charged with managing the region’s hospitals and health centres but the Parliamentary Group of the Communist party has presented a draft resolution to Parliament outlining the dire reality.

This resolution will be debated and voted on later this week and includes a "dramatic portrayal of the degradation of primary health care in the Algarve” and presents a set of recommendations to the Government to ensure the provision of quality health care to the region’s population.

The Ministry of Justice released a bold statement today announcing that the computerised court case management system Citius now is working for new cases and that existing cases will be migrated "gradually."

Last week the Secretary of State for Justice promised a disaster progress report. Today the Institute for Financial Management and Equipment of Justice stated that "it is assured that starting today there will be full access to all features of the Citius platform that supports the activity of courts and new cases."

The Gibraltar Football Association (GFA) has been using the Algarve’s white elephant stadium near Faro for its 'home' matches, but no longer as the degrading treatment of fans last week as Gibraltar lined up to play Poland has led to a boycott of the Algarve venue.

Louis Wink, the GFA’s Head of Integrity and Security, in an exclusive interview with Panorama - Gibraltar’s first newspaper on the web - has said that the Gibraltar Football Association were utterly appalled with the treatment last week by the Portuguese contracted security company on local supporters as they entered the stadium in Faro before Gibraltar played their Euro qualifying match with Poland.

The achingly beautiful Belmarço Palace in Faro was left empty by the Portuguese government having abandoned its development plans years ago after wasting €250,000 of taxpayers’ money.

To add insult to injury the government now has sold the building to a drinks wholesaler for a further irretrievable loss.

By the end of its current term of office, the council of Alcoutim wants to create two river beaches at Odeleite dam.

The plan had been festering in an in-tray at the Ministry of Environment for a decade, according to former mayor Francisco Amaral.

At last the scaffolding is to be erected at the Almedina Tower in Rua Dr. Francisco Vieira, Silves, next the square below the council building.

A contract was awarded in March 2014 to a local company and it will cost over €70,000 to repair, modify and consolidate the tower.

A Public Petition has been launched in an attempt to keep the Fábrica do Inglês and its Cork Museum in Silves.

The petition aims to preserve the the Fábrica do Inglês and museum and demands that the President of the Assembly and the Portuguese Association of Industrial Archaeology does something about it.

Nearly 40% of all the total income in Europe goes to people who are in the highest income bracket, while those at the lowest level get only 8%.

Inequality looks at the living conditions of all the people in society, so is a broader concept than poverty which relates to the people just in the lowest income bracket.