UK prime minister, Theresa May said on Friday morning she would step down due to her failure to deliver on the people’s vote to leave the European Union.

The game is on to select a new PM with Boris Johnson in the running to deliver on Brexit.

The Portuguese fishing fleet has significantly increased its catches in the first three months of the year, especially in March.

The monthly statistical report from the Government states that landings increased by 35% in the months from January to March, 2019.

Development projects in the Algarve, that are under construction or being started and which have been subject to an environmental impact assessment, are being audited.

This process is designed to verify that developers have been following the environmental rules.

In 2013, in the midst of the financial crisis, alarm bells sounded when it was discovered that some public companies - such as Carris, Metro de Lisboa, Refer and Metro do Porto - had contracted ‘swaps’ with Santander Totta.

This complex financial instrument, a form of bizarre gamble to cater for possible interest rate rises, backfired badly when interest rates fell to historic lows, costing the companies millions in additional interest payments at upto 200%.

More than half of Portuguese electricity bills are for taxes and fees.

The country leads the EU ranking of prices when adjusted for purchasing power.
 

“Portugal is living on water that it does not have," according to the Association for Nature Portugal (ANP).

"Citizens, companies, farmers and the State must commit to the sustainable use of water in a country that is affected by water shortages and where this is expected to worsen in the near future," said the association.

A suspected paedophile, wanted by the authorities in Germany, has been stopped at Lisbon airport and detained.

The man arrived in Portugal on a flight from Dakar, Senegal, but SEF border control staff picked up the fact that there was an International Arrest Warrant in his name and detained him, pending deportation.

Silves council has suspended its municipal Municipal Master Plan (PDM) specifically to allow building work on an area of land adjacent to Zoomarine to enable the expansion of the theme park.

This decision was taken by the Council on Monday, May 20, and those interested now have a period of public participation that runs until June 3.