Less than a week since the country’s most powerful political couple (Minister of the Sea Ana Paula Vitorino and her husband interior minister Eduardo Cabrita) were woken from their slumbers by an ear-shattering dawn explosion as yet another ATM machine was blasted clean out of its support structure judicial police have announced success. The gang believed to be responsible for a trail of similar high-value assaults up and down the country has finally been run to ground.

All Portugal’s mainland districts are on orange alert for Sunday due to forecasts of strong winds and rain, snowfall and rough seas with waves reaching up to 10 metres.

The weather depression, dubbed storm Ana by Portugal’s forecasting authority in collaboration with authorities in Spain and France, is forming over Ireland today (Saturday), and expected to move southeast rapidly.

Strong rain is expected throughout the country, along with winds of up to 120 km/hr in the north and centre. Snow, too, is forecast for the Terras Altas region.

Coaches and camper vans started to arrive in the Belgian capital on Thursday morning bringing demonstrators supporting the sacked president, Carles Puidgemont, who has been living in Brussels since leaving Spain last month for fear of being arrested.

The protest was held in front of the EU’s parliament building where around 45,000 flag-waving supporters of independence for Catalonia demonstrated to demand the European Union ceases its support of the Spanish government’s position and looks at the Catalonia issue seriously, rather than sticking to its weak get-out clause of “this is a matter for Madrid.”

Two men, aged 34 and 44, have been charged the attempted murder of Eleanor Chessell, on May 6th, 2017, in Alvor, Portimão.

The 28-year-old English woman was attacked with acid which caused "burns and injuries to various parts of her body," said the police.

Road management company Ascendi and electricity supply company EDP, both blamed for their part in the Pedrógão Grande fire this summer that killed more than 60 people, technically may be blameless.

Fernanda Paula Oliveira, a professor of Administrative Law at the University of Coimbra, has looked into the laws covering the obligations of Ascendi to keep the area alongside public roads clear of trees and of EDP to keep the area under power lines free of trees and combustible materials.

Conforama’s parent, Steinhoff International, has seen its shares continue to slide, losing 73% of their value in two days as accusations of accounting irregularities and tax fraud continue to circulate.

Steinhoff’s management, now minus its chief executive, revealed that it was undergoing a criminal investigation in Germany over irregularities going back to 2015.

Tourists in Portugal spend an average of €96-a-day last year, with the Brazilians and Americans leading this welcome splurge.

Visitors from Brazil have been spending €166-a-day and from the United States, an average of €146-a-day, according to the 2016 figures issued by the National Institute of Statistics in its International Tourism Survey.

Ryanair pilots in Portugal have voted in favour of industrial action up to and including strike action, according to the Portuguese Civil Aviation Pilots Union.

The move comes amid mounting discontent among pilots about the airline's refusal to negotiate with their chosen representative bodies, and following the mismanagement of annual leave which led to the cancellation of over 20,000 flights.