Gordon Ramsay is ready to verbally lash British expats running restaurants in Europe.

His Kitchen Nightmares TV programme is aiming to recruit British-run businesses that need help.

The Spanish enclave of Melilla has come under renewed attack with some 600 people storming their way in on Tuesday.

This was the largest surge in migrant numbers trying to gain access in nearly a decade, according to Spanish officials.

Venice is close to losing its battle against enormous cruise ships when it was ordered to permit them back into its delicate lagoon.

A law introduced last November set out to reduce the number of cruise ships of more than 40,000 tons which could enter.

The Algarve’s 16 councils unanimously have agreed with local unions to adopt a 35-hour working week and today signed a document to reduce the working week from the statutory 40 hours.

Nobre dos Santos of the Trade Union Federation of Public Administration (FESAP) commented, "For us the deal is irreversible and does not need any more discussion," adding a veiled threat that there are further actions his members can taken if the agreement is not cleared by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General's Advisory Board.

A shortage of certain drugs in the Ayamonte and Huelva areas of Spain has brought eager buyers to the Algarve to stock up.

A Spanish couple has been arrested by the GNR military in Loulé, firstly on suspicion of drug trafficking. The pair was in possession of a suspiciously large amount of heroin that they had bought in Portugal in the face of domestic shortages.

TAP and CP, more correctly known as Transportes Aéreos Portugueses and Comboios de Portugal, Portugal’s national airline and rail passenger carriers, have devised a joint programme, Rail & Fly Portugal, where airline passengers can obtain discounts on onward travel from Faro, Lisbon and Oporto.

The discounts are available on Alfa Pendular and Intercity services.

'Illegal homes' on the Algarve’s islands in the Ria Formosa are to be razed to the ground in an operation that should be completed by the end of 2015 at a cost of €16.6 million.

Portugal’s environment minister, Jorge Moreira da Silva, announced today that he is moving forward with the demolition of 835 buildings in areas “at risk of coastal erosion.”

Over 80,000 consumers have visited and exchanged information on a DECO website that compares prices of bottled gas cylinder in 1,650 outlets throughout the country.

The consumers’ champion Deco launched the site a month ago when the cheapest 13kg botle of butane cost €22.95 in Pombal, Leiria district.