The Algarve’s Socialist MPs say they are concerned about the violent disturbances on June 25th in the Oura area of Albufeira, know colloquially as ‘The Strip,’ caused by a large group of tourists from the UK.
 
According to the council, this particular group consisted of about 1,000 people between the ages of 19 and 22, who were on a low-cost, all-inclusive Invade Portugal package marketed as a booze-filled, hedonistic break.

An external, highly confidential audit of the SIRESP communication system was commissioned by the previous government under the then Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. The report recommended urgent improvements to the national emergency service communications system but nothing was done.

The confidential audit of SIRESP was requested in 2014 by the then Minister of Internal Administration, Miguel Macedo (pictured left) and in August that year the highly critical report was issued proposing short and medium-term measures that needed urgently to be implemented.

Inês Lains works at the Massachussetts Eye and Ear Hospital and has been awarded a prize from Harvard University for the best scientific article on age-related macular degeneration, the gradual loss of vision with increasing age for those over 50.

The article refers to a new way of diagnosing the condition by studying how quickly the eye adapts to the dark.

Algarve MP, Cristóvão Norte, has 'had it up to here' with the government which he says is directly responsible for the appalling traffic situation in the region, yet it refuses to do anything about it.

Norte questions the government’s intention and whether contractors will ever complete the road works on the EN125 between Vila do Bispo and Olhão. The MP says the Government, "has failed completely with the region."

Portugal has its “third hottest Spring since 1931,” according to the IPMA which also notes low rainfall, heatwaves and heavy snowfall.

Spring, March, April and May, was very hot and very dry in mainland Portugal this year, with an average temperature of 15.64 ° C making it the third hottest spring for 86 years, says the weather service.

The fire in Madeira last August in which three people died, several were injured and thousands were evacuated, also racked up material losses of €157 million as homes and hotels were consumed.

This was all due to one 24-year-old man’s culpable negligence that has been proved in court and results in a conviction for setting a forest fire and gross negligence that caused a homicide.

PT has been strike-free for ten years but that is coming to an end as irate staff and fully supportive unions are organising protests in the coming weeks in reaction to what they consider to be "the biggest attack ever seen" on workers’ rights.

Billionaire Patrick Drahi’s company, Altice, bought the Portugal Telecom Group in January 2015 for €7.4 billion and it now is run as a subsidiary of Altice NV in the Netherlands.

The national railway company, Comboios de Portugal, is running a new tourist train service on the narrow-gauge Vouga line.

Three wooden carriages from the early 1900s have been refurbished by a specialist maintenance company in the Comboios de Portugal Group, and they will travel every Saturday until September 30th, 2017.