The announcement comes after EDP Comercial said it will increase the price of gas to families by an average of 30 euros per month, plus fees and taxes, starting in October.

Airport handling service Portway have warned of the possibility of constraints at national airports, due to the strike called by the National Civil Aviation Workers Union (SINTAC), for the 26th, 27th and 28th of August.

The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that if carbon emissions continue at the current rate and which is faster than feared, Algarve cities such as Faro, Olhão and Tavira could be threatened within the next thirty years.

A multidisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Coimbra (UC) and the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (CHUC), coordinated by Miguel Castelo-Branco (UC) and Isabel Santana (CHUC), have discovered a triple hotspot of brain pathology in the disease of Alzheimer's.

David Lea, 64 years old, has not been seen since he took his boat out of Portimão Marina on Wednesday 11th August. On 12th of August the police found the boat, without David.

A vehicle suddenly burst in to flames on the A22 this morning, heading from Faro to Portimão, just before 9.00am.

The 42 and 40 year old couple suspected of violent robberies at at service stations throughout the Algarve and Spain, and some homicides, were arrested while eating their hamburger at a McDonald's in Zamora, northern Spain.

Sadly, the police have confirmed that the remains found in a suitcase in Almancil belong to Sandra Andrade, the 49-year-old woman from Quarteira, who had been missing since the end of June.