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.
Protesters marched through the town of Lagos last Saturday in a demonstration organised by the Committee of Users of the National Health Service.
The protesters presented a motion which stressed their "displeasure" provoked by the health policies of the government and the situation they face at Lagos Hospital, Portimão Hospital, health centers and clinics across the Algarve.
Only two of the eight contracts, where Portugal bought defence equipment in return for 'contra' investment in Portugal by the seller, have been executed.
In a third agreement, compensation for the acquisition of torpedoes, a Portuguese court ordered that bank guarantees were executed and the money transferred to the state, some €11.6 million, as the seller’s side of the bargain had not taken place.
In February, the annual rate of inflation in the eurozone clocked in at an average of 0.7% but Portugal was one of four members which have fallen into deflation.
The annual rate in Portugal was -0.1%, the same rate as in Slovakia. Greece and Cyprus were harder hit, with -0.9% and -1.3% respectively.
Primark has said it is to pay a further $10 million (£6m) in compensation to the clothing workers who became the victims in Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza (pictured) collapse which killed 1,000 employees.
Of the total, $9 million will be distributed directly to 581 workers, or their families, who had been employed by Primark’s supplier, New Wave Bottoms.
The average house price across England and Wales has hit a new record of £236,000.
Prices are up by 6.8% over last year whereas London’s annual growth of 11.3% took the average price to £552,530, also a new record.
