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Odeleite to have river beach by summer 2019

By next summer, Odeleite should be boasting its own river beach. The project is finally moving forward after a first draft put forward by the PSD-led Castro Marim council was rejected by the opposition in December.

A new version of the

British man missing after boat overturns at Ourique dam

A 29-year-old British man is missing since Monday afternoon after the boat he was travelling in overturned at Santa Clara dam in Ourique, Beja.

According to reports, the man was one of four Brits in a “banana-type boat” that overturned at

CR7 vies for fourth UEFA Player of the Year award

Cristiano Ronaldo is once again among the three finalists for UEFA’s Player of the Year award, which he has won three times in 2014, 2016 and 2017.

Also in the running is his former Real Madrid teammate Luka Modric and Liverpool star

Scrapped parishes could return by 2021

Parish councils that were either scrapped or merged with others in 2013, as part of an administrative reorganisation of the territory, may return if they meet new criteria that the government will try to pass in parliament soon.

The goal

Mário Centeno lambasted for “North Korea level of propaganda” over Greece’s exit from eight-year bailout

It was supposed to be a celebratory video commending Greece for finally exiting its bailout programme, but it is being lambasted by politicians from all sides in Portugal and has even been described as employing “North Korean levels of propaganda

Oeiras beach first in Portugal to have “life-saving drone”

Praia de Santo Amaro in Oeiras is the first beach in Portugal to boast a life-saving drone capable of rescuing up to four swimmers at a time.

The drone is equipped with a rescue buoy which can be transported and deployed near victims in “

Tires plane crash blamed on “pilot error”

The crash of a two-engined aircraft in Tires, Cascais, in April last year, which killed five people, was caused by “fault of the pilot who was not able to control the aircraft after a loss of power in the left engine”, an official report has

PM António Costa enjoys holiday in Carvoeiro

Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa is on holiday in the Algarve and has been spotted enjoying the sunshine alongside his wife Fernanda Tadeu at beaches in and around Carvoeiro.

The socialist PM is on a two-week holiday and has been

Algarve’s road safety plan still on backburner

There is still no word on when the Algarve’s intermunicipal road safety plan will be unveiled.

Announced in June 2016 in a bid to reduce the growing number of accidents and fatalities on local roads, the project followed the signing of a

Fireworks ban causes uproar as fireworks companies face huge losses

Portugal’s pyrotechnics association (ANEPE) has lashed out against a fireworks ban that has been imposed by the government, saying the decision lacks any “practical sense”.

The ban is in place until Wednesday (...