A Spanish crew on a Dutch-registered boat face the muscle of the Portuguese navy on Monday when they were hauled over, accused of illegal fishing.

The Navy announced the seizure of a vessel engaged in illegal fishing off Vila Real de Santo António.

Court beckons for a 73-year-old Belgian man and a 58-year-old woman, both charged in connection with a murder committed in Messines in 2016.

According to the indictment issued by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the woman, a friend of the Belgian man, often stayed over at his home in Silves.

The Municipal Civil Protection Service has warned of zero temperatures and the risk of fire.

SMPC alerts for persistence of cold and dry weather, weak or moderate sometimes strong wind in uplands and formation of frost.

The GNR’s annual Senior Census operation, that identifies and helps elderly and vulnerable people, has registered 3,165 people living alone, in isolated properties and/or in vulnerable situations.

The GNR guards are especially alert for those with physical or psychological problems that could put their safety at risk.

Saint Vincent is to have a Catholic Church named in his honour in the western Algarve.

Just over 1,700 years after his death, St Vincent remains a martyr and patron of the Algarve's diocese despite his being the patron Saint of Lisbon – and of winemakers.

Portugal's parliament formally has recommended to the government executive that it suspends oil and gas exploration in the Alcobaça and Pombal concession areas, in accordance to a resolution just published in Diário da República.

In the official entry, MPs recommend that the executive, "makes every effort to cancel the exploration contracts for hydrocarbons in the Lusitanian Basin, in Alcobaça and Pombal, with the Australian company, Australis, Oil & Gas."

Duarte Lima has been acquitted in the case of the missing €5 million, allegedly stolen from Rosalina Ribeiro in Brazil and transferred to Lima’s Swiss bank account.

A Lisbon Criminal Court found Duarte Lima had no case to answer a key witness altered his testimony during the investigation.

Recorded crime declined in 2018 in all regions of Portugal, even the number of ATM explosions was down 90%.

In the parliamentary commission for Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees, the Home Affairs Minister, Eduardo Cabrita, told MPs that the provisional 2018 data for crime showed that by November 2018, the trend of falling crime statistics had continued and quickened.