A woman left widowed and with traumatic brain injuries after a crash in Quarteira, Algarve is seeking damages from the driver’s insurer.
June Vann, 60, was left with serious brain damage and her 65-year-old husband Martin died after they were struck by a car as they crossed a road in September 2010.
Members of the 
Silves council executive have professed total surprise and shock at the expulsion of the motorcaravan city that had been allowed illegally to build up in the council car park next to the FISSUL building by the river.
In a statement, the council found that the action by the GNR Environmental Portection Force was ‘strange,’ leading as it did to the ‘expulsion of motorcaravanners.’
The Financial Times today published an article which identified the top 5 risks that could threaten the success of Portugal’s exit from the adjustment programme and its fiscal life thereafter.
"The meetings this week between Portugal and its creditors should be tense after Lisbon rejected the proposal to move forward with new wage reductions" according to the FT which was analysing the penultimate Troika review of Portugal's progress.
British police were called to help release passengers on a long delayed Ryanair flight heading for Portugal.
More than 100 adults and children on Valentine’s Day managed to board the already delayed flight in Stansted which was scheduled to fly to Oporto.
The Spanish territory of Melilla has seen an assault by at least 300 African migrants on its border fence with Morocco.
Spain’s two enclaves, Melilla and Ceuta, are the only bits of the European Union in Africa. As such, they have become the focus of increasing attempts by sub-Saharan Africans to gain entry into Europe.
The World Cup in Brazil has become a symbol of protest for the country’s poor who claim the government is wasting money which should be spent on public services instead.
Now street protests are being met with police officers who have been trained in the martial art of jiu jitsu.
The organisers of the annual International Tourism Fair in Lisbon want to target the Portuguese public to regain lost customers.
The premier tourism event for 2014 features over 1,000 companies and organisations, of which about 100 are first time exhibitors. The fair will cost over €1 million to host and the goal this year is to attract more than the 65,000 visitors received last year.
The causes of the boating accident on Sunday at one of the sea defences protecting the entrance to the port in Tavira in which a man died and another was treated for hypothermia, are as yet unconfirmed.
The accident took place at around 13.00 when the recreational fishing boat flipped over and ended up on the rocks of the sea defence.
