GNR patrols this week have made arrests in the Lagos and Albufeira districts for drug trafficking and possession of prohibited weapons.
Officers from Portimão GNR yesterday arrested two Portuguese citizens, aged 20 and 34, and have charged them with drug dealing and gun possession.
A judge has ruled that airlines cannot continue to keep passengers waiting for compensation owed after delayed flights.
Tens of thousands of people demanding compensation are likely to be affected, according to solicitors representing Kim Allen, the passenger in the test case.
The council in Vila Real de Santo António has approved a motion for the government and council jointly to intervene in a potential business failure in the city.
Under the heading of ‘safeguarding jobs at the local printers, Litográfica do Sul, the CDU coalition members say that there are more than 40 jobs at risk if the situation is not resolved.
Passos Coelho continues in his attempts to distance himself and his government from the BES investment scandal.
In the opinion of the Prime Minister, it is up to regulators to solve the problems caused to 2,500 individual buyers of BES investments that were marketed as safe by BES branch staff but which in fact were invested by BES in a vain attempt to prop up parts of the crumbling Grupo Banco Espírito Santo empire which later failed.
Lego is on a roll, having sold 62 billion brick sets last year which boosted its sales to 26.6bn DKK (£2.6bn).
The toy company is getting closer to its goal of reaching “every child in every country in the world”. It also wants to become the world’s most popular children’s toy and to this end it will be focusing more on emerging markets.
The death of a five-year-old British boy who fell into a swimming pool while on an Algarve family holiday was accidental, according to an Eastbourne coroner.
"Asphyxia as a result of drowning" was recorded by a Portuguese pathologist after Rupert Marshall, from Uckfield, East Sussex was found in the shallow end of the pool while on holiday with his two older sisters, their father and Joanna Gardner, his partner.
Seven hackers have been arrested in raids by judicial police officers, one is the journalist Rui Cruz who runs the Tugaleaks site, the other are from 'Anonymous' whose activities have been causing deep embarrassment to the government.
According to a statement from the Attorney General's Office, those arrested are suspected of the crime of unlawful access (hacking), computer damage and possible criminal association and face 5-10 years in prison if successfully prosecuted.
The United States has become one of the biggest new producers of energy in the world, but it will not start large-scale exports.
The traditional energy exporters in the Gulf will continue their dominant role in global production, said the head of the International Energy Agency.
