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Three more arrests in Social Security corruption scandal

Three more people have now been arrested in the latest “Social Security declarations” scandal.

As many as 80 police attached to the country’s anti-corruption unit swooped on offices up and down the country yesterday, initially taking two

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Loulé ‘hell’ kennel exposed

A group of animal lovers has joined forces to “expose the truth” behind Loulé’s municipal kennels – which they describe as a place where animals suffer “a fate far worse than death”.

The Resident was alerted to the situation through a

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Passos Coelho’s morals “at the bottom of the barrel”, says jailed Sócrates

In another scathing diatribe delivered from Évora jail, former Socialist leader José Sócrates has accused the nation’s prime minister - currently in major hot water over his tax and social security payments - of being “close to moral depravity

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Meco tragedy: determined parents appeal to European courts

The determined families of six university students swept to their deaths into the sea at Meco beach 15 months ago are refusing to accept yesterday’s second judicial decision not to allow the case against the only survivor to go to trial. Their

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Forensic audit shows Salgado “disobeyed Bank of Portugal 21 times”

Details of the long-awaited forensic audit into the catalogue of errors that led to the €3.6 billion collapse of BES bank last year have at last emerged and been sent on to the parliamentary inquiry currently interviewing key players in the

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UPDATE: Ex-PJ accused of being “spy” for armed gang may end up sharing cell block with Sócrates

As the nation’s press focuses on the shock of yet another corruption scandal, bets now are on whether disgraced former cop Paulo Pereira Cristóvão will end up sharing a cell-block in Évora with disgraced former prime minister José Sócrates.

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Algarve hoteliers demand removal of anti-German hoardings

The latest publicity campaign by Portugal’s Left Bloc political party has left Algarve hoteliers fuming.

They say the hoardings, in German and translated into Portuguese, are “perplexing” German tourists who have come to the Algarve to

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Sócrates’ prison cell “invaded by fleas”

As news stories regurgitate more on the ins and outs of corruption investigation Operation Marquês, the principal suspect, former prime minister, José Sócrates is understood to have been further inconvenienced by flea bites.

According to

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Isabel dos Santos returns to shake-up Portugal’s business world

After her abortive attempt to purchase Portugal Telecom, Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the president of Angola is reported to be preparing a counter bid for BPI - in response to the public acquisition offer (OPA) presented by Spain’s Caixabank.

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Life-saving training being introduced to students
Life-saving training being introduced to students

INEM and the national education board (DGE) have signed an agreement that will see the introduction of “live-saving” basic life support training for students from seventh to ninth grade, as well as school workers and...

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