Yesterday, the new section of road between Rotunda das Pereiras and the EM522, in Escanxinas, Loule was officially opened to traffic. 

The weekly average price of fuel, calculated by the Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos (ERSE), rises this week by 3% for petrol and 2.6% for diesel.

After taxes, the price is €1,68 per litre for Unleaded 95.

According to ERSE, the average weekly price increased by 3% compared to the previous week in the case of petrol and 2.6% for diesel, taking into account the weekly variation in international prices for simple gasoline 95 at +4.8% and simple diesel by +2.7%.

Four people were injured, one of them seriously, following a collision that took place yesterday afternoon between two goods vehicles on the EN125 near Belmonte, in Portimão.

The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) have announced that, as of Monday this week, reservoirs throughout Portugal were at an average storage level of 82%, with the total volume stored increasing by 0.3% compared to last week.

On the day that thousands of students were supposed to return to classes after the Christmas school break, teachers are again on strike, called by three unions.

The Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE) have shut down two illegal animal slaughter sites, one in Silves in the Algarve and the other in Batalha in central Portugal.

In the traditional New Year message, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, warned that Portugal enters 2023 forced “to avoid it being worse than 2022”, which “was not the year of the expected turning point”. 

The body of a man in an advanced state of decomposition was discovered yesterday in the municipality of Odemira, Beja, close to where the Sudoeste Festival took place in the Summer.