Margarida Sousa Uva, the wife of Portugal’s former Prime Minister, Durão Barroso, died today from cancer, according to her family.

The 60-year-old mother of three died at her home. She had been diagnosed with cancer of the uterus in 2014.

The Portuguese arm of the anti-corruption global network Transparency International, today called for all Portugal State spending on fire fighting to be transparent and for all amounts invested in the fight against forest fires to be identified in detail, as well as for the identification of all those private companies that have benefitted from taxpayers money.

In a statement released to the media today, Transparência e Integridade, Associação Cívica (TIAC), pointed to the limited information available on how hundreds of millions of euros of public money for fire fighting are spent every year.

Three key EU leaders are set to meet to discuss how the EU should react to the UK referendum vote to exit from the EU.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande will gather on an Italian island on Monday. They are the representatives of the EU’s three biggest economies.

British households now have more disposable income than ever before.

The peak existing before the financial crisis has been finally exceeded, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Unemployment in France dipped just a shade below 10% in the second quarter of this year.

It was the first time since 2012 that the rate has nudged below 10%.

The prestigous Portuguese hotel group Pestana has announced its latest hotel opening at a site near Portimão’s international autodrome.

The Pestana Algarve Race Hotel & Resort opened on August 1st in a management deal with racetrack owner Parkalgar offering guests a ‘different Algarve experience.’

Government access to all bank account details is 'unconstitutional' - according to a welcome conclusion by Portugal’s National Data Protection Commission.

The Commission said today that the government move to gain access to the bank account details of all Portugal’s residents, shakes the very foundations of banking secrecy and is an excessive restriction.

The Judicial Police today arrested whom they believe to be the Benagil arsonist.

Several fires deliberately were set between Marinha and Benagil on August 4th, destroying wooden railings along the pathways and those stopping people falling down the various holes that pockmark the area.