• hardly surprising now is it???

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 7:59 pm**

this from portugal breaking news service

PORTUGAL : Poorest Fire Prevention Record in Southern Europe
Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - When fires break out in southern Europe in the hot summer months, the highest price is paid by Portugal, where the total forest area that has gone up in flames is 24 times greater than that of France, four times that of Spain and three times that of Greece and Italy.

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 8:01 pm**

and oh this as well from another report.......

More forest fires in Portugal

More forest fires have been reported in Portugal. Hundreds of firefighters worked through the night to contain seven new blazes in northern and central parts of country.

Forest fires are an annual problem in Portugal during the hot dry summer months, but the authorities say the situation is worse than at any time in the past 60 years.

It is estimated that 120,000 hectares of woodland have been destroyed by fires so far this summer

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:08 pm**

The camara has no money..Yawn Yawn......

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:13 pm**

yes quite right ..only money for football stadiums like the one in faro which was used 3 times in 2004.

Posted: **Sat Aug 13, 2005 10:33 pm**

I thought that was EUFA’s stadium
anyway there’s a good concert coming up soon

Posted: **Sun Aug 14, 2005 10:27 pm**

Any details of the concert please?
G

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:07 am**

the concert will be in lisbon, U2 are finishing they european tour in Sporting stadium, but i'm afraid is sold out...

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:14 am**

Remember the " DOME " millions and milions of pounds wasted plus " Wembley way over budget ( only football and popconcerts )>
Next we will have the " olympics " , what will happen to all the developments " After " the crowds have gone home.

Pot calling kettle black etc.

Very hot weather, lack of water equal fires every country in the world sometimes have these problems " Not Just Portugal "

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:41 am**

yes but at least someone might take responsibilty ..in uk a government minster would resign...here all we get is a shrug of the shoulders

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:49 am**

This lot resign over anything ( last politician with any credibility sadly passed away last week ).

All we would get would be alist of excused and aload of verbal *****.

A shrug of the shoulders just wastes less time

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:09 pm**

Graham L wrote:Any details of the concert please?
G

sorry Graham, I can’t find any details on ‘that’ concert. I thought I’d heard something about a funky-reggae-worldmusic-rave coming up soon. I guess it’s a hush hush underground gig (or did I imagine it)

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:32 pm**

tbbr wrote:This lot resign over anything ( last politician with any credibility sadly passed away last week ).

All we would get would be alist of excused and aload of verbal *****.

A shrug of the shoulders just wastes less time

Think you speak of Robin Cook tbbr?..
Yes very sad that...and a shock too...
clever man who will be missed in the house....
incidently..and sorry for going off topic somewhat..what think you of John McCririck's outburst at Robin's funeral?
I thought it totally uncalled for and embarrassing to Robin's family..
McCririck's an out and out Tory and with giant ego,using the funeral service as a platform to gain self-publicity..
I agree with Tony Parson's report in Daily Mirror today in that he's a prize prat!
shame on him

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:49 pm**

Ellie, I agree, but it's difficult to take someone who looks like him seriously !

Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:51 pm**

Speaking of U2 in Portugal.......

U2 Receive Humanitarian Honor in Portugal

The Associated Press
Monday, August 15, 2005; 9:46 AM

LISBON, Portugal -- Members of U2 received Portugal's Order of Liberty, one of the country's highest honors, on Sunday in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes over the past 25 years.

President Jorge Sampaio presented the medals to vocalist Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. in a formal ceremony at the presidential palace before the band's concert in the Portugese capital.

U2's activism during their career include work with Amnesty International and efforts to get global powers to forgive Third World debt. The band played at the Live Aid concert for Ethiopian famine relief in 1985, and was one of the key performers last month at the Live 8 concerts, aimed at pressuring the world's wealthiest nations to increase aid for Africa.

More than 50,000 people were expected to attend the concert at a soccer stadium Sunday night, the final European date on the band's "Vertigo" tour, which is in support of its most recent album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."

The band returns to North America next month, beginning with four shows in Toronto on Sept. 14. The tour wraps up Dec. 19 in Portland, Ore.

Posted: **Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:16 am**

digger wrote:sorry Graham, I can’t find any details on ‘that’ concert. I thought I’d heard something about a funky-reggae-worldmusic-rave coming up soon. I guess it’s a hush hush underground gig (or did I imagine it)

Maybe it was the Lenny Kravitz gig? Nothing lined up in the Algarve stadium for August or September that has been mentioned.

Did anyone pop down to Albufeira to see Jamiroquai on the 12th/13th August?