The benefit to the UK for staging the 2012 Olympic Games has reached £13bn.
British companies continue to capitalise on the success of the event and have won contracts from countries now pursuing other similar events.
More than 1.6 million people in the UK exchanged currency at British airports last year, despite the high charges made at airport terminals.
In fact, the number of people using airport exchanges rose in 2013 by 15% compared to 2012, according to research by the Post Office.
The authorities in China appear to have reacted badly to claims that the country was on course to become a Christian state.
A number of statues depicting scenes from the Bible, including the crucifixion, were destroyed; others were removed or sealed off from view at a Catholic pilgrimage site, nicknamed China’s Jerusalem.
Faro's mayor, Rogério 'One Lane' Bacalhau, should resist the temptation of answering questions in radio interviews until at least he has an opinion.
Sul Informaçao reported on an interview that Bacalhau gave on the University of Faro’s radio station about the proposed new bridge from the mainland to Faro Island.
The Attorney General's Office has confirmed the arrest of a former Director-General at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, adding that the suspect shortly will be questioned in the Central Court of Criminal Investigation.
The Judicial Police arrested 48-year old Alberto João Correia on Tuesday. Until February he had been the Director-General of Infrastructure and Equipment at the Ministry where searches have been carried out, as well as at various construction companies, in an operation involving dozens of Judicial Police inspectors who now are combing through old contracts.
The average daily traffic volume on the motorway from Lisbon to the Algarve(A2) and the Algarve’s Via do Infante (A22) increased in the last quarter of 2013 after more than two years of decline.
According to a bulletin issued by the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development - Algarve, all about mobility and transport in the fourth quarter of 2013, the section of the A2 between Almodovar and Messines saw an increase in daily traffic of 5.4% year on year, and traffic on the A22 which stretches between Lagos and Vila Real de Santo António, rose 13.1%.
The Algarve’s tourism businesses are rejoicing after a record number if the region's beaches have been awarded Blue Flag status.
The Blue Flag Association announced that in 2014, 300 awards were given to Portugal for its beaches, rivers and marinas with the Algarve way ahead for the first time with 82 beaches receiving the accolade, up 13 on last year albeit mainly due to Lagoa and Castro Marim councils joining in the scheme after their stubborn hiatus in recent years left suspicions among tourists that their beaches were not fit for holiday fun.
Portugal’s Tax Authority has mounted a national operation involving the dedicated use of 356 Inland Revenue inspectors and 200 police officers.
Tuesday’s operation concentrated on shops when looking for evidence of the use of ‘fraudulent billing systems.’ The new style tills that are linked to the Tax Authority have had a software embarrassment as it seems that many canny traders have found a way to thwart the supposedly secure computerised reporting system.
