The Latest Breaking News from Algarve

It’s noon on a cliff beside the Praia do Beliche, the sky is spotless and 100 of us are stood in a ragtag oval, an air of anticipation growing heavier than the early October heat.

If you’ve ever been to Lisbon or the Algarve on holiday, you’ll no doubt be familiar with pasteis de nata. Well, for anyone who isn’t, the good news is that these luscious Portuguese pop-in-the-mouth custard tarts, much like dryrobes amongst the SoCoDu swimming set, have become hip and hot in…

The FIA World Endurance Championship will expand to seven rounds next year with an additional race at Portimao in April.

The inquiry was launched after Portuguese police failed to find out what happened to Madeleine, three, when she went missing on holiday in the Algarve in May 2007.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene

The 45-year-old victim was assisted on the beach by the Istituto Nacional de Emergência Médica de Portugal, but her death was sadly declared on the beach

Bristling with castles and old port towns, the river that forms much of the Iberian border is peaceful and characterful – and you don’t have to start off on a zipwire

Records aren't expected to be broken but forecasters are warning this will "still be a hot spell of weather.”

Alex Evans, 33, has pointed out the similarities between his attack in May and that of another Welsh man, who was stabbed in a suspected mugging at the same resort in the Algarve earlier this month

Joel Collins, from Troedyrhiw in Wales, is the second Welsh victim of a stabbing in the coastal city of Albufeira in the southern Algarve region in 2022

Joel Collins, 35, was attacked after getting separated from pals on night-out in Albufeira in southern Algarve.