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Newsletter 9th October No.21

Hello and Welcome to your weekly Newsletter from heyportugal.com 

I had an interesting visit to "A Place in the Sun Exhibition" in Birmingham, UK last weekend, and the surprising part was that it was in the sun, with clear sky's on Saturday.  There was a buzz around the Exhibition about Portugal, the talk was of Portugal coming out of a 2 year slump in both visitors and property sales. The Portugal Office of Statistics backed this up this week with improved results about Hotel room bookings. (see below)

As reported last week the price of Hey Portugal is now only €1,95. It is available at a few places now but it will go out to a wider distribution throughout this week. We will update the list of Stockist as they get the magazines, so check the list for your local one.

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What's New on Hey Portugal.com

We have 2 new articles this week, one in gardening about the Autumn Rains and an Update of the IC3 Roadworks from Alvaiázere Town Hall.

There is also an update of the French Transport Strikes, and we will keep the website updated with any developments on this strike.

What's News - a Round-up of this weeks Local news and a bit of World News too.

Fraud Hotline. The Department of Work and Pensions have launched a hotline to crack down on benefit fraud in Portugal amongst the expat community. More information here.

Interbank Rates GBP/Euro. The GBP/Euro rate continues to fall with a close of 1.146 on Friday compared to last weeks 1.150

Chilean Miners. One of the escape shafts that are being drilled 1/2mile into the ground to release the 33 miners, should break through today. The miners were trapped by a collapse 2 months ago, and hope the final stage of their rescue will start within the next few days.

Low Cost Hub for Lisbon. Ryanair announced its intention to establish a third base in Lisbon during a press conference last week. The airline believes that by next summer its goal could be a reality. It also proposed operating from the airport’s ‘Terminal 3’, which is currently used for domestic flights. Easyjet are also still in talks with Lisbon ariport to establish a base there. (Maybe Hey Portugal's campaign for Winter flights is being noticed!)

Portugal National Statistics office said this week: In August, hotel activity registered 5.7 million overnight stays,  year-on-year increase of 5.9%, compared with August 2009. Non residents contributed mostly with 8.0% growth while   residents rose 3.1%.
Total income from hotel activity reached 291.8 million Euros and income from hotel occupancy 213.7 million Euros, accounting for increases of 9.8% and 9.5%, respectively.

What's On In Central Portugal

Check out your local Events, Car Boot Sale, Portugal Friends Coffee Morning and more. Look on The Calendar for more details of all these events plus many more.

1-10        25th Annual Dried Fruit & Nut Fair at Torres Novas
10            Katie Melua live in Lisbon
13 -17     Michael Flatley's "Lord of The Dance" in Lisbon
13  & 17  Cirque du Soleil, Lisbon
16 - 17    BLIP Exhibition in Portimao.
20            Portugal Friends Coffee Morning, Leiria
21 - 24    Michael Flatley's "Lord of The Dance" in Porto
23           Charity event in Cascais hosted by South Africans in Portugal

Shopping Offers:

For online shopping with UK clothes shops and more have a look in the Business Directory Online Shopping.

Don't forget to check out our Reader Offers Page for more information

Hey Portugal Business Directory has listed Windmill Property and Glamour Beauty  Insitute this week. 

Advertise with Hey Portugal from only €32 a year you can put your business in front of more people in central Portugal than any other website, for the price. You can't afford not to! We have our Media Pack online, you can see exactly why you should be advertising with us.

We welcome contributions from our readers, we really need to know what is going on nearer the Silver Coast and Fatima, anyone want to update us please contact us

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