The population of the parish of Santa Luzia, in Tavira, have been outraged at the existence of several telecommunications antennas installed in the residential area, since 2003.

The stunning Marina Machete, a 28-year-old flight attendant, was awarded the Miss Portugal title on Thursday last week, at the contest in Borba, in the Évora region.

“The focus on smart and digital villages” is one of the ambitions for the future of the Algarve region and was one of the central themes addressed this week in the session “Development and valorization of endogenous resources in low-density territories”, at the Museum do Traje, in São Brás de Alportel.

João Chalupa, a record breaking hockey player, has become the first person to travel from one end of Portugal to the other, on inline skates.

This week so far, the GNR have arrested three women and seven men between 23 and 50 years old, for drug trafficking in the Algarve region.

According to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), the danger of rural fires will gradually worsen from now until Saturday, following the rise in maximum temperatures.

Residents in Vale da Lama, Silves, have again demanded an end to the emission of fumes emitted by the Amorim Group's cork factory, expressing outrage at the delay in resolving the problem.

Fuel prices have been constantly changing for several months now. At the beginning of a this week, which of course was also the beginning of a new month, prices registered a very slight decrease, about 0.7 cents per litre for diesel and 0.5 cents per litre for petrol.