For his 75th birthday, Cliff Richard is to give a concert tour in the UK beginning in September.
The singer has added an extra date at the Royal Albert Hall in October with concerts in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield already sold out.
The heiress of a flour manufacturer in Spain has left her entire fortune worth millions of euros to helping students in her village.
Virginia Pérez Buendía, 86 when she died, gave her legacy to a fund which will give grants to students from the village of Valverde de Júcar (pop 1,350), in the central region of Castile-La Mancha.
The number of foreign holidays taken by Brits is 16% lower than it was before the recession.
At the same time, holidays taken in England rose 12% between 2008 and 2013.
The man who shot his estranged wife between the Lake Resort Hotel and Falésia Beach in Vilamoura and then attempted suicide, has died of his self-inflicted injury.
The man was rushed to hospital last Thursday morning after the bizarre incident. He remained in Faro’s intensive care unit but died on Saturday evening.
British people over the age of 55 are now able to obtain a forecast of what they can expect to receive from their state pension when they retire.
The estimate is based on people’s current National Insurance record.
Members of the International Platform against the continuation of tolls on the Via do Infante and their supporters met up on the Guadiana bridge on Saturday afternoon in the largest anti-tolls protest yet seen.
Over 50 vehicles from Spain and Portugal were driven in slow procession by protestors to the car park on the Portuguese side of the Guadiana bridge for speeches, expressions of solidarity and good humoured but serious discussion about the tolls and the damage they are continuing to cause to the economies in the Algarve and Andalucia.
An expert witness in the Meco beach tragedy where six university students drowned in December 2013, has cast serious doubt on the version of events given by João Gouveia, also known as ‘Dux’ who was the only one of the group left alive.
An expert in drowning from the Institute of Legal Medicine does not believe that the sole survivor of the tragedy had been in the sea where the other six youngsters perished.
The large accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has denied that it promotes tax avoidance schemes.
A committee of MPs singled out PwC for providing tax avoidance structures “on an industrial scale” in a report published on Friday after having held hearings last year.
