A website has been launched by the German pensioner found to be in possession of more than 1,280 hoarded works of art.

Lawyers for Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, claim he is the rightful owner of the most of the works discovered in his apartment in Munich.

Losses from the recent bad weather and strong waves are still being totted up but are expected to reach several million euros throughout Portugal with around €570,000 of damage to businesses and infrastructure along the Algarve’s coastline.

The Ministry of Economy reported today that it guarantees to "streamline the delivery of the financial support available" for owners of beach facilities and stated that no new fund is needed in response to the bad weather losses.

Local MP Paulo Sá has pushed the government on the need for dredging at the tail end of the Ria Formosa at Fabrica to the east of Tavira near Cacela Velha.

Paulo Sá, the Faro Communist party MP, has officially questioned the Ministry of Environment on the urgent need for dredging after a delegation from his party visited the area and met with the local community of fishermen and shellfishermen who explained their exasperation at the problems that increasingly hinder their efforts to earn a living.

The Spanish company Ferrovial has made an offer to buy three British airports, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton.

An offer of £800m was said to have been made to Heathrow Airport Holdings (formerly operating as BAA), according to Reuters news agency.

Over 500 Algarve medics have called for Pedro Nunes to resign as a second letter now has been sent from those who have the misfortune to work under the directorship of Pedro Nunes, the Chairman of the Board of the Hospitals of the Algarve Group (CHA).

This damning indictment of Nunes’s management style and of his rudeness towards several of his employees comes less than a month after a first letter was sent from a group of doctors complaining of being harassed, blackmailed and having to work with a lack of materials and essential drugs.

Sergio Monteiro, the State Secretary for Infrastructure, Transport and Communications, says that there is “no money, not from the state, not from the European Union, to spend on new roads."

Thankfully Monteiro added that "there is only money for some maintenance of existing roads." Monteiro was attending a debate in Coimbra titled Workgroup for Infrastructure of High Added Value where he concluded that the roads Portugal already has are just fine.

Con artists in Britain are causing over 1,000 car accidents every week in order to claim insurance money.

The UK is experiencing an increase in the number of staged road accidents. Since 2008, fraudsters have caused over 300,000 car accidents.

Chancellor George Osborne is being encouraged to change the thresholds for stamp duty as the cost of an average house creeps up.

Official figures are expected to show that the average house price rose from £248,000 to near enough £250,000.