The 14 projects already approved under an incentive scheme to attract movie-makers to in Portugal, should bring in €23.7 million, according to the Ministry of Culture.

"So far - and including applications that came in 2017 under the previous tax regime - incentives already have been approved for 14 projects, which include productions from the USA, India, Brazil, Portugal or Italy, and several joint productions from Portugal and France, and, Portugal, Spain and France, adding up a total investment of €23.7 million in filming in Portugal."

Portugal was one of the big winners on the night of November 3rd, collecting trophies for both ‘World’s Best Golf Destination’ and ‘Europe’s Best Golf Destination’ at the 2018 World Golf Awards.

For individual courses, St Andrews Links (Old Course), Scotland scooped the award for ‘World's Best Golf Course’, while The Belfry was recognised as ‘World's Best Golf Hotel’.

The coordinator of the Emigration Observatory says that Portugal "desperately needs" more immigrants and, in order to solve the problem of lack of labour, should make it easier for foreigners to come and work here - the government should,  "run recruitment campaigns in key overseas markets."

For sociologist Rui Pena Pires, the labour problem that Portugal faces can only be solved by more immigration which, if it does not happen, leaves the country heading towards its own "suicide."

The theft of weapons and explosives from the Tancos military base and the dumping of similar equipment on nearby wasteland months later, continues to raise suspicions that the public are not being told the truth and that politicians and military personnel are lying.

The Prime Minister, António Costa, is "obviously fully available" to respond to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, set up to look into the bizarre events that started in June 2017 with the break-in at the Tancos base.

China’s Three Gorges' offer to buy a controlling share of Portugal’s energy supplier, EDP, has hit the buffers with regulatory concerns and a lack of ready cash hampering the bidding process.

Regulatory problems have pushed the offer back to early next year, despite a final offer was due in late 2018.

An acrobatic manoeuver carried out by experienced pilot, Eduardo Ferreira, caused his own death when his powered paraglider crashed.

The accident happened on May 20, 2018. Ferreira, 49, died on impact near the football ground in Alvor, Portimão.

The death of a five-year-old British boy, on holiday at the Amendoeira Golf Resort, Silves, this summer, has been ruled as accidental drowning.

Worcestershire Coroner's Court heard that Archie Skidmore, from Belbroughton, Worcestershire, was found floating, face down, in the pool on the first day of a family break.

The Maritime Police, currently in polite mode, are asking owners of boats moored in a forbidden zone near Culatra Island, to remove their vessels from the area.

This initiative has been taking place since 25 October and aims to, organise this space where boats should not be moored as it is a sensitive area of the Ria Formosa and the marine environment easily can be damaged.