Despite lingering court actions designed to halt the Swedish giant retailer, the Ikea Group in Portugal finally has started work on its vast commercial project between Loulé and Faro.
The diggers started today, August 3rd, with an unspecific completion date for the Ikea store sometime in 2016 with the surrounding shopping centre due to be completed a year later.
Staff from the Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA) are set to release thousands of fish grown in captivity in an effort to boost the populations of those species that are popular with small-scale fishermen off the Algarve coastline.
The restocking operation will take place on Thursday 6 August when about 25,000 juvenile sea bream and sea bass will be set free from aquaculture facilities into the sea, south of the island of Armona in the Ria Formosa.
Hungary is racing to finish building a fence to block migrants.
The plan is for a barrier stretching 108 miles along the border with Serbia. The country’s prime minister says the barrier is necessary to halt migrants wishing to reach Europe by entering a nation in the visa-free Schengen area.
Lagos council has entered the fray over Dona Ana beach with the council president considering the removal of the beach's Gold Quality status as “illegitimate”.
The president of Lagos council, Joaquina Matos, said that as the award should be based solely on water quality, so the beach should keep its Gold award status despite recent safety works by the Ministry of the Environment being widely criticised for changing the character and appeal of the beach, once considered one of Portugal’s finest.
A Moroccan man has suffocated to death inside a suitcase in an attempt to enter Spain without proper papers.
The unnamed man, who was 27, stowed away inside a suitcase which was in the boot of a car belonging to his 34-year-old brother.
The original €1.2 million investment in stringing together and managing the pan-Algarvean route much loved by walkers in off-season temperatures is in danger of being wasted by the councils through whose domain the trail runs.
Council leaders were ‘very interested’ at the recent presentation and last-ditch appeal for funding by the route’s managers Almargem whose staff have done so much to turn the idea of a walkers’ route from the Guadiana to the west coast into a highy successful reality.
British consumers are spurning the British gooseberry, opting instead for other soft fruits.
It is one of the oldest British fruits, but it could soon share the fate of the British loganberry which disappeared from sale at least ten years ago.
The old bridge in Lagos, closed for 40 months for ‘urgent’ repairs may soon reopen.
The council now promises a date ‘in early August’ as the extensive repairs near completion.
