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Tiago Botelho, president of the Unidade Local de Saude do Algarve, says reserves across the region's hospitals are down even on the usual summer dip, and appeals for donors while rejecting the word crisis. Collection sessions are running at Fatacil in Lagoa.
Judge Gabriela Lacerda Assuncao extended the Esquadra do Rato investigation after prosecutor Felismina Carvalho Franco told the court the number of people involved is much greater than first expected. The file holds 23 PSP defendants, seven in pre-trial detention and four under house arrest.
A car parked on Rua da Oura began to move at about 03:00 on Tuesday. Ordered to stop by a GNR patrol, the driver reversed and accelerated into pedestrians and the police line. Ten civilians aged 18 to 22 and two GNR officers were hurt. The 35-year-old driver blew 1.29 grams per litre.
The IRS Code exempts a meal card up to the state's daily allowance plus 70 percent, which is €10.46 in 2026. FESAP, STE and the Frente Comum open October's negotiation asking for €10 a day against the €6.30 already scheduled, which would lift the card ceiling to €17.
The refusal notices are draft decisions, and applicants have 30 days to answer in writing. Behind them sits a law in force since May whose regulation has missed its legal deadline, leaving the means-of-subsistence test with no published threshold and no list of acceptable documents.
Lei n.º 59/2026 was published on Tuesday and takes force on 1 November. It caps the platform's commission at 25 percent of the fare before VAT, bars platforms from owning cars or operators, puts a QR code on the windscreen sticker, and makes in-car video opt-in for both sides.
