The killer fertilser factory, Fábrica Adubos de Portugal, fired up again last week after a month long stoppage due to the legionella outbreak traced to its plant.
The factory owners received a notification on 26th December from the General Inspectorate of the ministry of Agriculture that it could resume full prodcution.
A total of 17 companies registered their interest in buying Novo Banco before the deadline of 17.00 on New Year’s Eve.
The president of Banco BIC Portugal, Mira Amaral, warned today that now is not the right time to be opening the champagne, despite the government’s delight in the number of applicants and its fervent desire that the sale will be at the high end of expectations.
The District Command for Relief Operations in Beja reported this afternoon that the Beja fire department received an alert from the airfield that a microlite type of aircraft had crashed at 17.19 today.
The accident caused two serious injuries and the victims were swiftly transported to Beja Hospital where later they both were described as being in a stable condition.
"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early. My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall." (Robert Clark)
"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to." (P. J. O'Rourke)
José Manuel Barroso, the former President of the European Commission considers that the British influence in the European Union has declined to the point that London has ceased to be the link between Brussels and Washington.
Barroso also warned the British Government that a possible exit from the EU would be a real mistake.
From January 1st, 2015 when working out your tax returns, only invoices that include your tax number (NIF) will be accepted by the taxman, according to the director general of the tax department, António Brigas Afonso.
Afonso said that taxpayers should always ask suppliers for invoices that include their tax number if they want later to submit them as legitimate expenses when working out income tax.
The GNR’s ‘Ano Novo Seguro’ operation starts today until January 4th as the police patrol roads and set up roadside inspection points - specifically on the routes to and from popular sites hosting New Year’s Eve festivities - ‘in order to prevent road accidents.’
According to the GNR website, throughout the operation there will be a total of 6,572 officers out and about to keep us safe.
New Year’s Day temperatures will hit zero in the early hours in some parts of Portugal with the Institute of Sea and Atmosphere predicting some freezing minimum temperatures until Friday.
The yellow warning stays in force for much of mainland Portugal but the temperatures will start to rise from Saturday.
