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Ex-pats: Former Newsome couple Bradley Cobb and Diana Rippingham's great life in the sun

Former Huddersfield man Brian Hayhurst introduces us to a couple who quit Huddersfield for an exciting new life in the sun.Read

Ex-pats: Spain’s going up in smoke over ban

The UK introduced a smoking ban during 2007. Spain joined the club on January 2 this year, with rules more draconian than the UK dared. The uproar, in a country where smoking has always been popular, was predictable. Former Huddersfield landlord BRIAN HAYHURST, now resident in Fuengirola, Costa del Sol, watches the smoke rise.Read

Ex-pats: Former Waterloo boy Darrell Hunneybell on a packed life after Huddersfield

FROM dairy worker, to punk keyboard player to psychotherapist, Darrel Hunneybell has had a varied career.Read

Ex-pats: Ben Nolan's life in France

TEENAGER Ben Nolan vowed he would never set foot in France again.Read

Graham Denby: Flying the flag for England one last time

PATRIOTISM, it seems, is not an asset if you are a binman.Read

Graham Denby recycles in Portugal

WE are all conscious of the need for recycling our waste for the good of the environment as well as for keeping the cost and demand down for new, raw materials.Read

Graham Denby column: Repairing things on Portugal

A WET winter in Portugal means we’re in for a warm – OK, read that as hot – summer.Read

Graham Denby column: It’s in the papers ...

ONE of the great British traditions that we take for granted is the one you are indulging in now, namely reading your daily newspaper, national or local, early in the day.Read

Graham Denby in Portugal: Almodovar Church

WELL, here we are back on the tourist trail again this week with a religious slant though you might consider we’re just talking about architecture. I’ll leave it to you to decide.Read

Graham Denby in Portugal: Not really a fair crop

A PIECE of news from back home round about Mother’s Day reminded me that Britain and Portugal have one thing in common in these times of uncertain weather.Read

Graham Denby column: I’m no iron man!

ONE fine morning in March I flung – OK, carefully opened – the Portuguese French windows leading on to the lounge balcony and uttered the immortal words, ‘Rustio, Rustio, wherefore art thou, Rustio!’Read

Graham Denby column: The art of possibility

OK, we’re back in Almodovar exploring the Art Gallery part of the town’s Museum of Painting and Photography.Read

Graham Denby column: Photography museum, Almodovar, Portugal

MY new friend and Camara (town hall) contact Patricia has been rather busy of late but I managed to pin her down the other week so we could put in some time visiting more places of interest in Almodovar.Read

Graham Denby’s latest from Portugal

FOLLOWING on from my visit with Patricia to the Museum of Photography and Art in Almodovar we trotted on up the road to visit the Almodovar museum of Archaeology. They could be the forerunners of digging up dirt before the Sunday papers got in on the act and cornered the market! Just a five minute walk.Read

Graham Denby column: Licensed premises

THE rules keep changing, the goalposts keep shifting. If you have paying guests in Portugal you need accreditation.Read

Graham Denby: How to make Portugal more foreigner-friendly

AFTER the quiz night last Thursday at the Café Central I picked up a copy of one of the Brit papers, The Portugal News, only to find it was a month out of date ... not bad though for Maxine!Read

Graham Denby in Portugal: power cuts

KEEPING a watchful eye on the weather so we can talk knowledgeably about it whenever the occasion arises is a very British thing to do.Read

Graham Denby: carnival time in Portugal

THE big event over here in Portugal at this time of year is the annual street carnival.Read

Graham Denby column: Graham Denby queueing in Portugal

PORTUGAL and England have many cultural ties and similarities, but one that most observers have overlooked is our joint propensity for queuing.Read

Graham Denby: facts about Almodovar

ALMODOVAR isn’t the best-known part of Portugal. But it’s beautiful, it’s friendly, and it has some terrific attractions.Read