One police force in the UK is successfully capitalising on crime.

Leicestershire Police has harnessed the power of eBay to raise £273,000 this year by selling goods seized from criminals.

Portugal’s Prime Minister has reminded his colleagues that elections are not won abroad, they are won at home.

Pedro Passos Coelho wants his top team of ministers to cut foreign travel ‘in view of the elections’ next year while resigning himself to a further coalition in order to fend off the threat of a socialist victory, the alternative being ‘political suicide.’

Opposition parties reacted to the Prime Minister’s Christmas message arguing that Pedro Passos Coelho used half truths and that the message was actually an electoral message, rather than a Christmas one.

Referring to 'half-truths, lies and deception and the repetition of unfulfilled promises,' the Left Bloc MP Marisa Matias said that we would all love to live in the country described by Pedro Passos Coelho but that he had used half truths to continue to sell us a big lie.

Portugal is under a nationwide yellow warning due to the increasingly cold weather which will hit particular lows on Monday and Tuesday.

Portugal’s weather service issued the warning this weekend due to ‘continuing low temperatures’ especially between midnight on Sunday night and 18.00 on Tuesday.

The National Civil Aviation Flight Personnel Union (SNPVAC) said that its officials have not signed the memorandum with the government because its members do not accept that TAP should be privatisated and the document does not give any guarantees to workers.

"The union has not signed this memorandum because it lacked guarantees. This document presumes that the privatisation will go ahead, which we do not accept," according to the vice president of SNPVAC, Nuno Fonseca.

Olhão council is to make a public presentation of its proposals to solve the Berlin Wall railway crossing dispute that so far has caused upset, protest and vandalism.

The pedestrian level crossing was blocked off by the state railway company Refer in a unilateral decision leaving many elderly unable to cross from one side of Olhão to the other, as they have done all their lives.

An explosion in the early hours of Christmas Day left a man with severe burns and his property in São Bartolomeu do Sul reduced to rubble.

The man was rushed to Faro hospital, and later was moved to a specialist unit in Coimbra, according to a source at the Vila Real de Santo António fire service.

The Chinese multinational, Fosun Group has expressed formal interest in buying Novo Banco.

The company that successfully bought Caixa Seguros from the Portuguese state for around €1 billion joins Banco Português de Investimento and Santander in the line-up before bids are invited.