Algarve Social Democrats have written to the Minister of Internal Affairs in an attempt to get the police to back off during this year's Faro Bike Festival.
"Does it make sense, as has happened, that bikers coming to the festival, whether from within Portugal or from abroad, are pulled over several times in the police STOP operation?" read the letter.
Portugal's Visão magazine has gained access to a Tax Authority audit report which has confirmed the creation of a warning system to prevent unauthorised access to the tax data of a limited number of special taxpayers including politicians, businessmen and sports personalities - the 'VIP List.'
The magazine revealed today that the report confirmed the creation of the VIP List whose members have been protected by a warning system if their tax data is accessed by tax office staff.
The gradual decline in unemployment from 2013 has been achieved by ignoring the increasing number of unemployed that are not recognised by the statistics.
For the first time, the unofficial unemployment level has exceeded the official version, according to the Crisis Barometer report entitled "Crisis and the labour market: less unemployment without more jobs" released today.
Each person in the EU was responsible for 481 kilos of municipal waste in 2013.
While this seems excessive, it is lower than the peak of 527 kilos in 2002.
The Algarve is the cheapest destination for last minute holidaymakers with the fall in the euro against the pound adding to the appeal for the British.
Tenerife, Cyprus and the Algarve are considered the top three European hot spots this Easter with the Algarve ranking as the cheapest beach destination for a family holiday.
Shop prices in the UK dropped in February at their sharpest rate since the Office for National Statistics began its records in 1997.
Average prices were down 3.6% when compared to February 2014. The drop was ascribed to the steep decline in petrol prices.
Amazon has turned to the UK to trial its hoped-for delivery by drone.
Amazon aims to use small unmanned aircraft to get items to customers in as little as 30 minutes.
The president of TAP, Fernando Pinto, said today at the presentation of the 2014 results that there had been no loss of interest in the privatisation of the state owned airline.
Some of the potential buyers of TAP already have pulled out of the process as they have ‘lost interest’ but Pinto said that "each company will speak for itself and have its own strategy" and he already has made presentations to several.
