July 18 marks the 80th anniversary of the start of Spain’s deadly civil war.

Still within living memory for a great many, the wound it inflicted on the country has yet to close.

It is little wonder that the Algarve's Ria Formosa island communities continue to live in fear of having their properties knocked down as every move they have made has been thwarted by a government deaf to their appeals.

Six months ago an official public petition gained the requisite number of signatures for the discussion over island property rights to be continued in parliament where MPs could ask questions of a government intent on destroying properties and the island way of life.

A British registered yacht was rescued early on Saturday morning off Cape St Vincent.

The Lagos maritime authorities said the yacht had four Britons on board but was adrift and unable to make headway.  

In an early ministerial vow, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Saturday has upheld the goevrnment's commitment to the people of Gibraltar.

He reassured Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo that the British Overseas Territory would be fully involved in discussions with the European Union over the terms of Brexit.

Britons are among 110,000 holidaymakers whose forthcoming trips have been plunged into turmoil as travel website lowcostholidays.com has been taken offline and the Low Cost Travel Group has gone into administration leaving thousands of holidaymakers facing losses.

Over 110,000 customers have paid in advance for their summer and autumn holidays.

José Araújo and Pedro Delille, the lawyers acting for former Prime Minister José Sócrates (pictured), have used the news of raids on former PT directors’ homes as further proof that the State has run out of steam in the original Operation Marquês inquiry.

As the old suspicions ‘go bankrupt’ new ones are needed in order to prolong the investigation, thus successfully violating the deadlines set by law. This is the claim by Sócrates' defence after the Public Ministry initiated raids on Wednesday morning at PT group companies, former directors’ homes and at a law office.  

Two rescued turtles have finished their recuperation at the Algarve’s Zoomarine and hitched a lift with the Navy to be released far from the coast.

The sea turtles have been recovering and putting on weight at Zoomarine’s special recovery unit run by the biologist Élio Vicente.

More than two million people migrated to Germany in 2015, according to government statistics agency Destatis.

The number is the highest on record in German history. It represents an increase of 46% over 2014.