A train crash in northern Portugal this afternoon left one person dead and nine injured.

The accident occurred on the northern line in the Santarém Valley which was blocked in both directions.

A deal to bury the first shipment of 20,000 tons of Italian rubbish in a Portuguese landfill site has run into trouble not only with horrified environmentalists but with Portugal’s Integrated Center for the Treatment of Industrial Waste (CITRI) which has quarantined the waste until it can be established exactly what it consists of.

The Portuguese Environment Agency decided that the first of many shipments was perfectly OK as the Italians said there was 'nothing hazardous in the rubbish' but CITRI wants to be sure that the Italians are not dumping toxic waste on Portugal’s doorstep.  

The European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, said that the controversy whipped up over his Goldman Sachs job just showed anti-US hostility within Europe.

Barroso chaired the European Commission from 2004 until 2014 and, after a legally necessary rest period, took the highly paid post as Chairman of Goldman Sachs International in July this year, thus creating a huge backlash, not least from EU staff who mounted a petition that gathered 150,000 signatures demanding immediate measures against the revolving door in Brussels between political jobs and the corporate sector.

Retail sales in the 19 eurozone countries fell by 0.2% in September, statistics agency Eurostat reported on Monday.

The drop was due to fewer purchases being made of non-food products, such as clothing, electrical goods, furniture, computer equipment and books.

The Minister of Planning and Infrastructure, Pedro Marques, said today in parliament that the Algarve’s EN125 upgrade works “will be completed by the summer.”

Asked about the delay in finishing the job, Pedro Marques said that the EN125 roadworks, suspended since mid-June, should be resumed "at the end of this year or early 2017..."

The Iberian division of Coca-Cola European has suspended a planned €40 million investment in its Setúbal plant unless the government scraps the proposed ‘sugar tax’ on soft drinks.

Andrés Curbelo, the head of Coca-Cola in Portugal is confident the tax that is included in the draft 2017 State Budget will be amended and talks of the ‘social impact’ if it is not.

The fight continues at Vila Real de Santo António Council as the current executive today announced the opening of an official inquiry into illegalities in previous planning decisions that has left the council at risk of bankruptcy.

The action focuses on planning permission awarded to various projects during the previous mayor’s period in office which have been declared illegal by the Loulé administrative court.

Passengers hoping to fly on Ryanair in Europe this winter can expect dramatically cheaper fares.

The carrier has revealed that winter prices are to be cut.