The municipal kennel in Lagos again is offering free sterilisation for dogs and cats in order to "control the growth of the animal population."

The campaign, for both male and female animals, started today and runs until May 13th.

Hotels and other registered tourism properties in the Algarve registered a rise in income this April compared with the same month last year.

"The turnover increased by 6.9% over the same month of 2015," reports the Association of Hotels and Resorts in the Algarve (AHETA) in its monthly activity report.

Lisbon's Santa Casa da Misericordia has signed a deal to bail out the Ricardo Espírito Santo Foundation whose Museum of Decorative Arts in Lisbon suffered a catastrophic fall in income and loss of security when Grupo Espírito Santo went under in 2014.

Pedro Santana Lopes, the head of Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa, commented, "Now we are looking towards the future."

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of tourists that have been robbed on the streets of Lisbon with an average of 370 a month registering incidents with local police.

This number of robberies has risen 25.8% this January to April compared to the same period last year.

Again Portugal’s Air Force has distinguished itself by successfully airlifting a passenger from a passing cruise ship and taking her without delay to Faro airport.

The 84-year-old Briton was taken by helicopter from Cunard's Queen Mary II as she cruised about 27 miles southeast of Portimão.

Spanish police arrested 44 people last week on suspicion of being involved in a scam which stole thousands of euros specifically from company bosses.

While 43 of the arrests were made in Spain, one man was arrested in the UK close to an airport where the gang allegedly kept large sums of cash before sending it on to Nigeria.

The Algarve’s already crammed EN125 is to be cut between Maritenda and Fontainhas, a ten kilometre stretch, due to roadworks.

One reason for the complete closure is to repair the road spanning the Linha do Algarve railway line to the east of Boliqueime with the upgrade work meaning that the Algarve’s busiest section of the so called ‘alternative to the Via do Infante motorway' will be closed to traffic until at least July 15th - right in the height of the tourist season.

This week’s revelations about the money laundering activities of Russian gangsters in Portuguese and other European football circles come just days before an avalanche of new information is published from the leaked Panama Papers.

The Russian racket in Portugal was uncovered by the Polícia Judiária (PJ) with the support of Europol in an operation codenamed ‘Matrioskas,’ the name for traditional Russian wooden dolls of different sizes that fit inside one another.