Lee Mackenzie, author of a book published this week called The Charming Predator, is hoping to flush out the notorious, international conman Kenner Elias Jones, her former husband. He was last reported to the police while seeking political asylum in Sweden, writes Len Port

Originally from Caernarfon in Wales, Jones absconded from a trial in Lewes Crown Court in Sussex, England, in 2003. He has been at large ever since, continuing a career of theft, deception and fraud.

The Spanish leader, Mariano Rajoy, will be called as a witness in the Gurtel corruption case that is investigating a vast network involving several leaders of the Popular Party, which Rajoy leads.

The decision was approved by a majority of the three judges - two for and one against - who make up the National Court, a court specialising in political/financial and terrorism cases.

Portugal’s Communist Party wants the Government to provide parliament with all the documentation on the judicial process between the State and Santander Totta in the swaps contracts fiasco.

The parliamentary group of the PCP already has submitted an application to the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee to request the documents from the Ministry of Finance. This request was unanimously approved today in parliament.

A network of 100 distribution groups for the sexual exploitation of children through various digital platforms has been dismantled with one of the 38 arrests made in Portugal

More than 100 groups used Whatsapp and Darkweb to share child pornography. The criminals were detected in a transnational police operation to combat the distribution of child porn using digital platforms.

A Thomson Airways' Boeing 757 that took off from Las Palmas on a flight to Luton had to make an emergency landing at Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport in Oporto as the aeroplane's windscreen had shattered but not imploded.

220 passengers were on board the end-of-holiday flight as it descended from 30,000 feet to 10,000 feet and headed to Oporto where airport operator ANA cleared a runway and put emergency services on full alert.

Aethel Partners, the company that on February 24th sent in a knock-out bid for Novo Banco that could have seen €4 billion returned to long-suffering taxpayers, was led up the garden path by the Bank of Portugal, according to the company which now has launched a legal process to halt the Novo Banco sale.

At the time, the Bank of Portugal was negotiating ‘exclusively’ with US vulture fund, Lone Star, but Aethel Partners sent a letter of intent and a proposal to acquire Novo Banco for significantly more than the Lone Star bid of just €750 million up front for 75% of the company.

A slow-moving line of honking vehicles made its way along the EN125 on Monday afternoon, blocking traffic while highlight the demands of the Via do Infante users’ group, CUVI, that the Algarve motorway tolls should be lifted.

The protest began at 3.30 pm at Quatro Estradas in Loulé and finished two and a half hours later in Lagoa, some 40 kilometres distance.

The British electorate has an opportunity to vote in a general election called today by Theresa May for June 8th.

The British premiere called the snap election in a move to give her support in driving through the Brexit process as the UK leaves the European Union.