A pensioner facing charges of raping a child has been arrested in the Canary Islands.
Frank Burgon, 76, from Hartlepool, was released on bail in the UK but used his brother’s passport to flee the country in November. Posing as his brother, he travelled through several countries before settling in Gran Canaria.
Olhão’s €32 million budget was kicked out by an opposition voting in unison, claiming the figures concealed a hidden trick.
Olhão’s council will carry on managing the municipality from month to month until a new budget can be agreed. The council can spend the equivalent to 1/12th of last year’s budget every month in the meantime. This is 22% more than the 2014 budget was set to spend but it is hoped that restraint will be shown.
Lagoa council has ‘debureaucratised’ its contract procedure for its water customers.
The council admits that the current multi-document contract is not necessary and that 'administrative modernisation will encourage simplification of procedures in accordance with the provisions of Decree-Law n.º 194/2009 of 20 August, which establishes the legal regime for the municipal supply and distribution of water, sanitation, urban waste water and municipal waste management."
U.S. website 'The Inertia' is the reference point for tens of thousands of surfers worldwide. In a December report, the waves of Praia da Rocha gain a special mention and a series of shots by a local specialist surf photographer.
The observations are contained in an article entitled "Southern Portugal Steals Nazaré’s Thunder" and brings together a series of images by João Bracourt, aka Brek, regarded as one of the best surf photographers in Portugal today currently residing in Lagos.
Aircraft Accident Investigation chief Alvaro Neves said today that the cause of the Monchique helicopter crash was due to the aircraft hitting power cables. Neves added that this was a provisional finding as research was still being carried out but is looks pretty clearly to be the case.
As the final accident report will take one year to produce, initial findings have been published in case safety rules can be amended or improved.
Portugal's police operation last December saw 366 motorists done for drunk driving, 113 for driving without a license, 90 arrested for having current warrants out for them, 47 for drug possession, 43 for theft and robbery, 25 for disobedience when stopped, 24 for possession of illegal weapons and 19 for assaulting and/or injuring officers.
A banker on the run in the US was captured by police in a routine traffic check.
The fugitive is alleged to have faked his death in order to avoid charges of defrauding investors of $21 million.
Similar to concerns in the UK, politicians in Germany are nervously facing a possible influx of workers from Bulgaria and Romania.
Tensions have arisen in the country’s new governing coalition over the question of potential “benefit tourism”.
Conservatives believe that extra measures should be taken to prevent abuse of the welfare system and to curb “poverty-driven migration in the EU.
