Faro council has called for urgent intervention over the demolition of part of a tower attached to Faro’s city wall. Faro council has been following the situation for some time and finally has called for "the urgent reconstruction of the tower.”

According to Faro’s socialist councillors, part of the wall, "a kind of internal turret,” was demolished by the owners of two dilapidated buildings in Faro old town, to whom the council granted a license for cleaning and removal of debris.

Criminal gangs are using kidnap and torture to prey upon African immigrants in the UK.

Organised gangsters are demanding up to £20,000 from some immigrants to release relatives they have taken hostage in the immigrant’s country of origin, according to the European crime intelligence agency Europol.

The concerned chairman of Portugal’s Medical Council, José Manuel Silva, has voiced his concern at the "growing emigration" of young medical specialists, including Doctors.

"There are more and more doctors emigrating. Doctors are graduating in Portugal and then migrating to central and northern Europe," said Silva as he chatted to press after a meeting with the Head of State.

Last year the Treasury made attachment of wages orders, 1,457 per day, totaling more than 532,000.  The Portuguese tax men sent out over nine million emails to taxpayers with tax debts, and seized wages, bank accounts and any other financial products it could uncover.

The total number of actions by the state against its citizens has more than doubled since 2011 with 611,941 cases of asset seizure, 576,751 bank accounts raided, plus the daily toll of wages orders.

Scientists in Portugal have identified what is now thought to be Europe’s largest predator as fossilised remains including bones, eggs and even embryos, have been uncovered from a cliff at Praia da Vermelha north of Lisbon.

The 10 metre animal, Torvosaurus Gurneyi, was a two-legged carnivore with blade-like teeth 10 centimetres in length and lived in the Jurassic period around 150 million years ago.

The Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, ‘should apologise’ to the Algarve for threatening that there will be no money to fully electrify and upgrade the Algarve railway system if the State has to ‘rescue’ the halted development and safety work on the EN 125, according to the ' Salvar Faro, com o Coração’ (Save Faro with a Heart) movement, which claims that the Secretary of State’s position "offended the Algarve and that this is not to be tolerated."

An e-commerce and Business Cooperation accord was presented to the world today in Faro. The agreement aims to deepen the collaboration and expand e-commerce opportunities between companies in the Algarve and Andalusia in Spain.

Faro councillor Paulo Santos explained that the cross-border project is an important initiative to encourage and facilitate business cooperation between companies in the Algarve and Andalusia, adding "It is important that there is synergy to support the economy in these two areas."

The interest rate for the eurozone has been kept at its record low of 0.25%, while in the UK interest rates are to remain at 0.5%.

The euro region rates have been the same since November 2013. The interest rate low in Britain has last for five years already. Analysts believe it will not rise until this time next year.