As the Algarve’s mayors continue with the uncertainty over the proposed tourist tax, Porto’s city fathers have given a strong indication that the money raised will have little to do with tourism and everything to do with replacing general public spending.

AMAL, the Algarve’s mayor’s group, voted to impose a tourist tax to fund projects to do with ... tourism. This decision now has to be ratified on a council-by-council basis and it is already clear that various Council Assemblies will vote down the proposal, creating a patchwork of tourist tax Councils, unable easily to fund general projects as not all municipalities contributed.

Former minister Arlindo de Carvalho and the former president of Banco Português de Negócios (BPN), Oliveira e Costa, (pictured) on Monday were convicted of fraud and tax fraud in another case relating to their management of BPN.

Arlindo de Carvalho, Oliveira e Costa and his partner in a real estate company, José Neto, were found guilty and sentenced in in Lisbon. Ricardo Oliveira was acquitted.

The second emergency landing in two days at an airport in the Portuguese mainland was reported today after a Transavia flight diverted to Faro early on Monday.

The Transavia service from Funchal to Amsterdam had 149 people on board.

A Portuguese businessman has been murdered in Mozambique after his kidnapping and subsequent payment of a ransom, reported the Secretary of State for Portuguese Overseas Communities, José Luís Carneiro.

The victim has lived and worked in Mozambique for eight years in the civil engineering sector.

French authorities have seized a Ryanair plane, forcing 149 passengers off the London-bound flight.

The low-cost airline had failed to repay €525,000 of illegal public aid to the DGAC civil aviation body which sent in a bailiff, under police protection, to seize the plane on the tarmac at Bordeaux airport.

After a five year wait, Luís Carito, the former Portimão deputy mayor (pictured), the man who swallowed evidence when his Ferragudo home was searched by Police in 2013, is to face trial this coming January.

Carito is accused of money laundering, destroying evidence and using a business allied to the Council for his significant personal gain.

“While we pray for all the victims of that terrible tragedy, let us say forcefully: invest in peace, not in war,” Pope Francis said during his Armistice Day address in St. Peter's Square on Sunday.

The Pontiff called for an end to conflicts around the globe, stating, “It seems that we do not learn” from the memory of WWI and have yet to, “reject a culture of war.”

Ten people, including one child, were seriously injured after being hit by a car at the beginning of Saturday night in Rua Pinheiro e Rosa, near the centre of Loulé.

Faro's Relief Operations Command said an alert was received at 7.10 pm. The street was busy with people leaving Mass.