The new green tax on plastic bags will now not come into force until February 15 but other taxes in the guise of helping the environment will start as planned on January 1st, 2015.
Plastic bags from supermarkets will cost a minimum of tens cents.
The new green tax on plastic bags will now not come into force until February 15 but other taxes in the guise of helping the environment will start as planned on January 1st, 2015.
Plastic bags from supermarkets will cost a minimum of tens cents.
‘Raise the height and increase the width of the Olhão tunnel walkways. This will reduce the slope and make it easier to use, even for those with reduced mobility.’
This is the nub of the proposal from Olhão council as explained to an audience at a public discussion on Monday night. The mayor is trying to reach some sort of settlement over the upset caused by Olhão’s very own Berlin Wall – the name given to the barrier erected by the national railway company that has cut Olhão in two.
Thousands of people in the UK abandoned the notion of a traditional Christmas meal, opting instead for takeaway hamburgers and fried chicken.
Orders soared by 19% compared to last Christmas.
Spain’s Banco Popular is the latest addition to the line up willing to compete to buy Novo Banco, the sanitised remains of Banco Espírito Santo.
Banco Popular has formalised its interest but it not yet committed to any purchase, neither are the other parties.
The number of Romanian and Bulgarian migrants entering into the UK has been growing at only a steady pace over the last seven years, despite controls having been lifted and fears that Britain would experience an influx.
The total population of the two nationalities in Britain is 252,000, of which more than 80% had already been in the country before labour market restrictions were relaxed on 1 January 2014, according to academics.
Since 2011, a subsidiary of Banco Espírito Santo has supported the Mário Soares Foundation with grants totalling €570,000, but this is likely to end as the Espírito Santo financial empire falls apart.
This support makes the banking group, formerly led by Ricardo Salgado before his arrest on charges of money laundering, the largest financial benefactor of the institution named after the former President of the Republic.
An airline in the US is suing a man whose website finds cheap air fares.
Aktarer Zaman founded the website Skiplagged.com in 2013. It looks for “hidden city ticketing”. This involves finding flights to a more distant destination, but with a stop in the desired city.
The international travel publisher of the Rough Guides series has promoted Portugal’s Alentejo region in its ‘Top 10 destinations to visit in 2015.’
The Portuguese region joins Kosovo, the UK’s Peak District, the Canary Islands, Karnataka, Northern Ireland, the Mekong Delta, Northwest China, Oaxaca and Queens.