Pensions are still being paid out to nearly 30,000 Spaniards who have died.

The cost to the taxpayer is estimated to be some €25 million every month.

Rosa dos Santos, the owner of Farrusco the cat, is to go on trial for mistreating her pet by allowing it to be the start turn in the annual cat burning event at the São João festival in Mourão near one of Portugal’s culture centres, Coimbra.

On June 23rd, 2015, a video if the ‘cat in a pot up a burning pole’ routine was broadcast on social media causing animal rights groups to condemn the tradition as nothing short of cruelty and launched a public petition which gained over 18,000 signatories.

Thousands of customers of lowcostholidays.com who lost money when the online travel firm ‘Low Cost Travel Group’ collapsed are due to receive compensation of around 2 pence for every pound they have spent.

An estimated 77,000 Britons have been affected of a total 140,000 customers worldwide.

A concerning posting on Facebook about the situation at Vale do Garrão, Vale do Lobo has raised serious safety issues as a gas tank water sprinkler system now has been cut off, putting the whole area at an increased fire risk.

Infralobo, with the collusion of its majority owner Loule council, continues to persecute its customers in a dispute over an arbitary 'bedroom tax' that is waiting for a court decision yet the company continues to treat its customers in a cursory, arrogant and now dangerous manner.

The usually thoughtful party for People, Animals and Nature (PAN) has submitted a bill to parliament that asks for horse-drawn carts to be banned from Portugal’s roads, thus risking the ire of the Roma community and human rights organisations.

Claiming that these carts are “not compatible with an evolved society,” the move is seen by Roma communities as discriminatory.

A Portuguese man has died of a knife wound at West Ham Lane Recreation Ground in east London.

Bradley Quaresma, 20, was slashed across the neck during a skirmish at 15:15, a time when the park was full of families and children.

Britain’s economy was reported to have contracted at the fastest rate since the 2009 peak of the financial crisis.

The Markit survey, the first to measure business activity since the Brexit vote, found that the services sector in particular but also manufacturing declined.

After June proved to be the 14th consecutive month of record heat for land and sea, analysts suggest that 2016 is well on the way to becoming the hottest year on record.

For the first six months of 2016, average global temperatures were 1.3C higher than the pre-industrial times of the late 19th century, according to Nasa.