The Algarve’s mayors group AMAL is to initiate a road safety plan concentrating on the EN125 ‘road of death’ to reduce accidents and fatalities.
 
As the Via do Infante motorway seems set to remain a tolled road, pushing thousands of cars an hour onto the over-burdened EN125 ‘alternative route,’ the Algarve’s 16 council mayors are to develop an Intermunicipal Plan for Road Safety, which aims to reduce road accidents.

A new bill has been approved in parliament that could see the end to Portugal’s municipal kennel system putting down thousands of cats and dogs each year.

The proposal still requires final approval to be passed into law but MPs say that in this case the new law almost certainly will pass through the necessary legislative process and animals can look forward to the chance of freedom and happiness, rather than lethal injection.

Filipe Silva, the Algarve businessman on trial for abducting and hiding his daughter Ellie for seven months, was meant to be sentenced today, but the conclusion of the legal proceedings was postponed.

Faro Court now has set aside June 24th for what hopefully is the final hearing in the trial for the kidnapping of Ellie Silva in September 2012 after a period of parental access.

Portugal’s Minister of Finance Mário Centeno is in negotiations with the European Commission to fiddle the figures.

Centeno is looking for a ‘more favorable accounting treatment’ for Portugal’s national accounts as he wants to send Caixa Geral de Depósitos a taxpayers’ cheque for €4 billion but does not want this to appear in the figures.

The Passos Coelho government commissioned a report into the effects of reducing the price of tolls on formerly free SCUT roads, such as the Algarve’s Via do Infante.

Infraestruturas de Portugal now has released the findings which conclude that a drop in toll prices on certain roads will create an overall increase in toll revenue.

An offshore wind energy project, with Portugal's EDP the lead partner, has been completed in a successful five year ‘live conditions’ test at sea.

The WindFloat structure, sited offshore near Povoa do Varzim, now will be towed back to port and a second wind energy structure will be substituted for further testing.

An easyJet flight destined for Faro has to divert to Manchester not long after take-off.

The captain reported "technical problems with the hydraulic system" soon after leaving Liverpool at 09:35 this morning.

Sociedade Funefaro Gestão de Crematórios Lda won a tender in 2011 to build a crematorium in Faro but has failed even to start work on the planned facility.

The agreement therefore has lapsed and the Council is entitled to receive compensation of €309,000 while it goes back to square one to see if there is a company that really does want to build a crematorium to serve the expatriate market.