The ever increasing charges for gas and electricity have kicked a record number of UK families into fuel poverty.
Official statistics just released show that the number of households with dependent children who were classified as fuel poor are projected to have risen to an estimated 2.33 million, or 10% of all households.
The top court in the EU is considering a test case which could define obesity as a disability.
The matter arose when Denmark asked the Court of Justice to clarify European law by considering a case involving a male childminder who claims he had been sacked because of his weight.
Portugal’s central bank warned today that the country’s fiscal consolidation is not complete and that three years of austerity measures so far have raised only half the amount needed for the government to hit its own target.
Approximately €7 billion in additional austerity measures (4% of GDP) will have to be found for the structural deficit to reach 0.5% by 2019, as planned.
Mrs Kirsty Isobel Hayes has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic.
Mrs Kirsty Isobel Hayes has been appointed Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic in succession to Mrs Jill Gallard, who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mrs Hayes will take up her appointment during August 2014.
The government has replied to a question about the Algarve needing a dedicated tugboat, saying 'forget it.'
This has enraged local Communist Party MP Paulo Sá and other members of the CFP who insist that the Algarve’s ports need a tug “to service the expansion of port activities in the region, for the safety of navigation and for environmental protection."
A second phase in the search for clues relating to the missing British toddler Madeleine McCann begun today near Praia da Luz.
For the past seven days members of the British police, overseen by Portuguese police officers, have concentrated their fingertip and geo-radar searches in an area of scrubland within the Praia da Luz area.
The GNR detected 489 violations related to tax evasion during Operation Tribute which involved stopping trade vehicles over a six day period.
Drivers of 9,017 heavy good vehicles have been pulled over and 489 offenses were detected, 355 of which related to the new Guia de Transporte system which has been criticised as being intrusive, unworkable and overly bureaucratic by business groups.
For people in Britain, it is images of flooding which determine their perceptions of the risks involved with climate change.
A survey disclosed that people now think that heat waves, hot summers and droughts strong enough to empty reservoirs are less common events in their lifetimes, but that flooding and coastal erosion had become more frequent.
