The Borders and Foreigners agency has been at it again, this time in Albufeira where officers have been swooping on shops and restaurants checking on workers' documents.
SEF officers nabbed 11 illegal aliens working in Albufeira’s warren of catering establishments and shops out of 80 questioned.
Madeira’s entertaining yet exasperating despot, Alberto João Jardim, has managed to spend over €5 million on partying - hard.
Invoices attributable to the leader of the regional government of Madeira’s sense of fun start in 2010 and when totted up hit the €5 million point at which most premiers would seek a darkended room in which to recover.
The new Head Boy at Banco Espírito Santo (BES) says he is opening a new chapter in the bank’s history.
Vítor Bento, chief executive of BES, today wrote a letter to customers (see below) asking for their confidence and claiming that his management team will sort it all out.
Just as Ryanair steps back, albeit slightly, from taking every chance to impose extra charges on its passengers, other carriers have stepped up to the plate.
Most dependent on extra charges is the American flyer Spirit Airlines, based in Florida.
Britain’s NHS is to open itself to feedback from users in the style of TripAdvisor.
Every NHS patient will be free to give feedback on the care they receive and to say if they would recommend their treatment to others.
The British government has promised free and impartial advice to pension savers from next year.
Advice will focus on investing pensions now that reforms in pension schemes have been announced which will allow people freedom to access their pension savings to use as they wish.
Portugal's Attorney General's Office is investigating the investment of €900 million by Portugal Telecom in Rioforte, controlled by the Espírito Santo Group, and other events surrounding the Group's financial meltdown.
The Public Prosecutor has confirmed that investigations into the problems at various Espírito Santo companies began before revelations reached the press and become public.
Wind farms have come under renewed fire in the UK as environmental agencies oppose plans for a new one off the south coast of England.
Rampion wind farm, with up to 175 very tall turbines, has been approved by ministers in the first wind farm on that coast.
