Who­ever vis­its Al­bu­feira these days, will notice posters scattered all around the town de­clar­ing in Eng­lish and Ger­man, “Bull­fight” and «Sti­erkampf». This means that the 2013 bull­fight­ing season is now open and will take place every Wed­nes­day even­ing. […] »

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It is a story we are hear­ing far too often these days with the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate in Por­tugal. All it takes is a few in­ter­rup­tions in the cash flow for a small or me­dium size busi­ness to go under. The epi­logue is al­ways the same: seiz­ing of as­sets. […] »

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Her name is Ân­gela Rita, and she is a 29 year old from Olhão who suf­fers from dia­betes. Her ill­ness has worsened con­sid­er­ably and has got to the point where her sight is now at risk. The solu­tion is an op­er­a­tion cost­ing around 9000€, a vit­rec­tomy, […] »

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On Fri­day, the Agên­cia Por­tuguesa do Am­bi­ente (APA) (Por­tuguese En­vir­on­ment Agency) hal­ted the work on an il­legal swim­ming pool con­struc­tion on the cliffs, at the Praia Salema, Vila do Bispo. The situ­ation had already been re­por­ted by loc­als to our […] »

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His name is Robert Hizee, “the hyp­not­ist”, he comes from Sid­cup (Bex­ley) in the UK and next Monday, 17th of July, he will be in the Al­garve for a show at The Fat Cat’s Bar, from 10pm in Al­bu­feira. “I’m over to make a name for my­self as a stage hyp­not­ist […] »

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The news paper «Der Standart», in their life­style sec­tion, re­cently pub­lished a pho­to-re­port en­titled «Eine-schoene-Dos­is-Fisch», (A good por­tion of fish), dis­play­ing a num­ber of pho­to­graphs about the latest Por­tuguese canned fish fad, restor­ing […] »

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Last Fri­day, 7th June, the right-wing parties denied a meas­ure presen­ted to the Assembleia da República, (Por­tuguese Par­lia­ment)by the left wing to save what is left of the Museu da Cortiça, ( Musuem ded­ic­ated to cork) which at present is in the […] »

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After trav­el­ling through Por­tugal, Lygia Clark’s, it­in­er­ant ex­hib­i­tion « Camin­hando, em busca do próprio caminho» (walk­ing, in search of our own path) will be in Lagos on the 29th and 30th of June, in the Praça do In­fante and in the Jardim da Con­stitu­ição. […] »

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A total of 21 new mo­tor­ized en­vir­on­mental friendly buses and ve­hicles with bet­ter ac­cess­ib­il­ity for those with re­duced mobil­ity are the latest in­nov­a­tion re­cently presen­ted by Faro Coun­cil and the com­pany, EVA Trans­portes. A new minibus cir­cuit has […] »

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