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A autarquia lacobrigense renovou, pelo quinto ano consecutivo, o apoio ao Centro de Formação Desportiva de Vela (CFD) do Agrupamento de Escolas Júlio Dantas que funciona no âmbito do Desporto Escolar...

A promoção de atividades ao ar livre, o contacto com a natureza e o património, o combate à sazonalidade e à desertificação dos territórios de baixa densidade, são denominadores comuns a duas ativida...

Dando continuidade a uma prática já instituída, a Câmara Municipal de Lagos aprovou, na sua última reunião ordinária, a abertura de concurso anual para a atribuição de bolsas de estudo aos alunos lac...

A Câmara Municipal de Lagos, esta quarta-feira reunida, deliberou não assumir no ano de 2021 as novas competências no domínio da ação social. A decisão prende-se com o facto de não estarem reunidas a...

Foi recentemente concluída a empreitada municipal que permitiu dotar o Cemitério para Animais de Lagos de mais 36 unidades de inumação. Destas novas unidades, quatro nichos destinam-se a animais de g...

A Câmara Municipal aprovou, na sua reunião de 16 de setembro, a revisão do Acordo de Cooperação com a Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lagos, visando ampliar de 250 para mais de 1200 o número mensal de ...

Portugal’s public debt has skyrocketed in the last six months of the Covid19 pandemic, from 114% of GDP to 133.8%.

A new memorandum of understanding has been signed between Portugal and the Netherlands, to explore the transportation of green hydrogen between the two countries.

Many of the big British banks have written to expats to say that unless they can prove they are resident in UK they will stop serving them when the withdrawal agreement ends on December 31st this year, leading to issues for many.

It never actually went away, but with just over 3 months to go before the transition period expires on 31st December, it seems a good time to catch up on what’s been happening over the summer and why it might be important. Covid19 has totally eclipsed Brexit in the media, but the end of the […]

A new calculation published today has seen the European Commission reduce grants coming Portugal’s way in post coronavirus recovery funding by €2 billion.

In writing this series of articles during lockdown, I have come to understand the pure companionship of poetry. Poems one has loved and known through a lifetime are trusted friends in the face of such uncertainty and adversity. I have set them out, season by season. In so doing, I have sought to contrast the […]

Something’s distinctly off in Praia de Ancão (Loulé borough). Since the ‘environmental attack on centenarian pines’ in the natural park of Ria Formosa authorities that vowed they would ‘see heads roll’ have gone strangely quiet – to the point that residents who raised the alarm in the first place fear something even worse could be […]

Reassuringly, even if there is a no-deal Brexit, citizens’ rights for UK nationals legally settled in Portugal by December 31, 2020 are protected under the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement. There are no such guarantees, however, in the area of financial services, which could affect whether you can continue to receive UK-based advice and services as an […]

Prime minister António Costa has set out five fundamental steps which he believes will help stem the exponential increase in new coronavirus infections. His intervention came after an urgent meeting of the crisis cabinet to discuss the situation – a microcosm of what is happening throughout Europe. Countries east to west are dealing with ‘spikes’ […]

GNR police have dismantled a major drug trafficking network in the Algarve, which led to the arrest of 19 people and the confiscation of over 24,000 individual doses of drugs – including heroin, cocaine and hashish. Speaking to national tabloid Correio da Manhã, the head of the GNR operation Carlos Bengala said: “It is one […]