On the August 29th, the last Saturday of the season, the hugely popular White Night returns to Loulé billed as the official farewell party to a scorching summer.

The council-sponsored event has had a chequered history through recent years of austerity but with council finances in better shape, the mayor and councillors agreed that the event should go ahead as it boosts local trade and makes everyone happy.

The number of people from EU countries who are working in the UK has tipped over the 2 million mark for the first time.

The figures, from the Office for National Statistics show that nearly half are from Eastern Europe.

Portugal’s dry conditions have contributed to dozens of serious fires, the worst of which is still blazing across Serra da Estrela national park tonight, Tuesday.

Over 400 firemen are trying to tackle the blaze which started on Monday afternoon but have had no lasting success.

The majority of those Portuguese on Interpol’s hit list are wanted by the Brazilian judicial authorities to comply with prison sentences for drug trafficking and international people trafficking for sexual exploitation.

The former deputy PSD leader Duarte Lima is on the list and will be arrested should he leave Portuguese territory.

The British government is to concentrate on workers in construction, cleaning companies and care homes in order to discover if any immigrants working there do not have proper documentation.

Immigration minister James Brokenshire has promised fresh raids and employment checks in another crackdown, saying that firms with illegal workers will be “hit from all angles”.

The rolling three-day strike by Portugal’s nurses will cover the Algarve on Thursday.

Strike action began on Tuesday in Lisbon and the Tagus Valley and continues tomorrow with nursing staff employed in the Alentejo region withdrawing labour.

Since the beginning of the 2015, the Algarve has been referenced in 46,697 articles published in online news media around the world.

The study results from a global monitoring system run by Cision which reports that the Algarve, the holiday destination of choice for many thousands of foreigners every year, has reached a worldwide audience by the use of the worldwide web.

A Pakistani citizen applying under the Golden Visa scheme for residence in Portugal has purchased the central Lisbon luxury apartment owned by José Sócrates.

The Heron Castilho apartment was purchased by the former prime minister, currently in Évora jail, in 1998.