Even more shoppers in England are rejecting the purchase of plastic bags since a 5p charge for them was introduced nearly a year ago.
More than nine in 10 people claim to often or always bring their own bags when they go shopping, according to a new study. This was up from seven in 10 before the levy came in last October.
Germany’s second largest airline, Air Berlin, is to undergo a major restructuring which will reduce its fleet by almost half and axe 1,200 jobs.
Losses have been piling up for the carrier which announced its plans on Wednesday.
The beautiful Belmarço Palace in Faro, just outside the eastern gate of the old town, was purchased in September 2014 by the entrepreneur João Rodrigues who has started work to turn it into his head office.
Rodrigues’ business empire is varied and includes football, wine, hospitality and property.
A 37-year-old man was arrested by the public security police on Wednesday after a two hour siege at his apartment in Faro.
His partner had been missing for two days and the police suspected some sort of foul play. When they finally managed to get into the apartment they found the body of a 21-year-old woman in the bedroom.
The political football that is 'the bridge to Faro island' again has been booted into the lap of local mayor Rogério Bacalhau who, after years of dithering, says a new bridge will be built in with costs shared between Faro ratepayers and the government.
Bacalhau said he has reached an agreement with the Ministry of the Environment to push ahead with the construction of a two-lane bridge to the island and that it will be ready in 2018.
Portuguese farmers are turning their backs on Monsanto’s genetically modified MON810, the only GM crop commercially grown in the European Union, according to the Portuguese government.
Official data shows that Portuguese farmers have reduced the number of hectares under GM maize cultivation for the second year in a row.
The European Parliament has opened an inquiry into the Panama Papers scandal, the unprecedented leak of 11.5 million documents concerning secretive offshore tax regimes.
The inquiry’s first evidence session in Brussels heard from some of the journalists involved in breaking the story in April of the Mossack Fonseca data leak.
Royal Bank of Scotland has to shell out $1.1 billion (£846 million) to one US authority as the first of three penalties expected to be demanded for the bank’s role in the 2008 banking meltdown.
The settlement resolves two civil lawsuits over the way the bailed-out bank sold “residential-mortgage-backed securities”. Its mortgage bonds were alleged to have been missold to credit unions before the crash.
