Two lynx from the Silves breeding centre, brothers Kahn and Kentaro, both were released in the centre of Spain near Toledo.
One ended up 500 kilometres north east in the vineyards of Rioja while Khan headed home to Portugal swimming across the Tagus and Guadiana rivers en route.
Loulé council has set aside €165,000 for local cultural and arts associations but mayot Victor Aleixo insists that the money is accounted for correctly using new council guidelines.
"This is a novelty in the cultural policy of the Municipality of Loulé. When we hand over public money we now are setting criteria for its allocation so that we can be fair and objective when handing it out.
Dolores Aveiro, the mother of Portuguese footballing legend Cristiano Ronaldo, was stopped at Madrid’s Barajas airport and found to be carrying €55,000 in cash in her hand luggage.
Spain’s money laundering regulations state that the maximum travellers are allowed to take out of Spain without making a declaration is just €10,000.
The Blue Business Forum at Blue Week which ended yesterday in Lisbon saw the Algarve well represented by organisations involved in scientific research, technology transfer and business, all dedicated to the sea.
The Algarve University stand was visited by the Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, the Deputy Prime Minister, Paulo Portas, the Minister of Agriculture and Marine Affairs, Assunção Cristas and the Minister for Education and Science, Nuno Crato.
Silves council wants to borrow €4.4 million for a range of ‘essential works’ as its mayor, Rosa Palma, says that the council “lacks its own financial resources.”
The council wants the money to carry out 17 projects and the mayor believes that the use of a loan is the wisest way to fund the "indispensable" work in the Silves council area.
Another surge of migrants has brought around 5,000 desperate souls to Italy over just this weekend. This brings 2015’s figure so far to more than 50,000 arrivals registered by Italy.
The latest arrivals resulted from rescues on Saturday from 15 boats which had set out from the failed state of Libya. On Sunday, at least 14 more rescue operations were conducted.
The two possible buyers for state airline TAP both submitted enhanced bids before the deadline last Friday.
In the biggest hint yet that the bids may not be enough, the Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, said on Saturday that the intention of the government is “to decide as soon as possible whether to sell the airline or not.”
While the British rail against immigration, a key business group has warned of an on-going lack of basic IT and computer literacy skills in the country which is putting the economy at risk.
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said the dearth of IT acumen amongst many workers could undermine Britain’s growing digital economy.
