Energy certificates issued between January and September 2013 dropped by 18.3% compared to the same period the year before.
Energy certification is now an unavoidable reality in the national house sales market, according to information from ADENE – the energy agency charged with running the scheme.
The interest rate for Portuguese 10 year debt fell today to below the psychological 5% barrier, according to a positive report from Reuters.
The interest rate for 10 year government debt consistently has been over 5% since June 2010 and the new rate will enable Portugal to start to fund its own expenditure at sensible interest rates.
A lawsuit in the UK is underway against Google over the way it gathers personal information and then uses it to push targeted advertising at them.
Three people involved in bringing the lawsuit have won the approval of the High Court to bring the internet provider to trial.
The demand for English farmland has sent the cost per acre soaring to record highs in 2013, a trend predicted to continue this year.
Prices jumped by 11% last year along, by 210% over the last ten years and a remarkable 11.500% from 60 years ago when land cost £52 an acre.
Cambridge City Council has decided to abolish apostrophes on street signs which has caused a stir among many concerned with the correct use of English.
The council said it was only following national guidelines which claim that apostrophes could cause confusion, especially for emergency services.
Forty bales of hashish, some 1500 kilos, have been fished out of the river Guadiana by the GNR which spotted the bales in the water near Foz de Odeleite in the early hours of Saturday.
According to the GNR the discovery was made during a routine patrol which spotted "two boats on the River Guadiana behaving suspiciously on Thursday evening."
The Algarve's recycling company Algar, owned by Aguas do Algarve and the Algarve's councils and now run by ex-mayor of Faro Macario Correia, has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the correct separation and disposal of waste packaging and the efficient use of recycling points.
The initiative is being held in collaboration with all the Algarve’s councils which should ensure that the new information leaflets will reach every household in the region. The aim is to enlighten and inform the public about the rules for using the recycling points.
The accident near Évora on Christmas Day, which caused four deaths and four serious injuries, was the most serious car accident caused by animals in Portugal, but there have been many more less appalling acidents throughout the country in recent years.
The Public Relations Officer of the GNR in Évora, Rogério Copeto, has been compiling a list of accidents caused by animals in the past year in the Évora area.
