British consumers last year lodged a complaint nearly every second about products and services.

In all, 38 million customer complaints were made in the course of 2013, according to the Ombudsman Services.

Britain’s super rich invest more money in property than their peers in most other countries of the world.

The UK is in fourth position when examining how the wealthiest invest their money.

"It disgusts me, the idea of handing out premium cars," said the political commentator Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa this weekend.

While agreeing with a policy of incentives for taxpayers to request proper receipts for purchases, the well-respected pundit said that a luxury car lottery was "repugnant" and it embodies the antithesis of everything that Pedro Passos Coelho had vowed to do.

Bensafrim, near Lagos is the preferred location for Match Algarve a massive football village to be built by Portuguese and Dutch entrepreneurs at a budgeted cost of €110 million.

With the blessing of the Bensafrim parish council and hoped for agreement from Lagos Council the project is expected to start in 2016.

Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Saturday that Portugal can not afford to keep the works of Miró, adding that when the government is having difficulty in providing money for repairing our national assets, it is not going to spend €35 or €37 or €40 million to keep some paintings by Miró, when "we don’t have the conditions to display and enjoy them."

The concern of Portugal's Medical Council has been awakened by a petition from 182 doctors working within the Hospitals of the Algarve group, a petition which denounced the poor conditions in the region’s hospitals and highlighted complaints from patients over shortages of materials that have led to delayed operations.

Portugal’s Medical Council has requested an audit of of the management of the Hospital of the Algarve and an investigation into claims from Pedro Nunes, the current President of the Board of Directors, about the activities of his doctors.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Paulo Portas, has stated that the government's ‘Golden Visa’ initiative may "surpass the €500 million investment mark in Portugal in 2014”, having brought in €306 million in 2013.

Portas says this will be “very positive for the revitalisation of the economy," but did not say how.

"In 2013, revenue for the national economy from Golden Visas was higher than expected, over €300 million and according to our evaluation of the programme's success it is sensible to predict that in 2014 will see sustained revenue to €500 million.”

Authorities in Gibraltar are planning to export a segment of its 200 or so Barbary macaque monkeys which they say have become out of control and known to harass people.

The macaques are the only population of wild monkeys in Europe.