Parliament has approved a Socialist Party proposal to reduce tolls on four formerly free motorways including the Algarve’s Via do Infante.
No date for the toll reductions has been given nor the level of discount but earlier musings by the governing party suggested this summer sometime, perhaps, depending on the budget.
The police force in Sweden is struggling as officers are leaving in record numbers.
In 2013, there were 70 officers under the age of 40 who quit. Another 95 left in 2014 while 2015 saw 121 depart from the force.
An AeroVIP Dornier DO-228 suffered catastrophic damage to an engine as the flight came in to land at Cascais aerodrome.
The bird-strike happened at an altitude of around 100 feet when the aircraft engine was hit by a passing seagull which was sucked into the engine.
There is no respite from fraudsters as mortgage fraud by identity thieves is reported to be on the increase.
One technique used by criminals is to apply for mortgages using the names of people who have recently died.
The average price of renting a place to live in the UK, excluding London, went up to £764 a month in the first three months of 2016.
In the Greater London area that figure rose to an average £1,543 per month, according to the latest figures from referencing firm HomeLet.
António Mira has been sentenced by the Court of Portimão to five years in prison for embezzlement and document forgery but the sentence was suspended.
Mira was sentenced to three years in prison for each of the seven counts of embezzlement and one year in prison for each of the four crimes of forging documents, all to run concurrently. (1)
A pair of lynx released into the wild as part of Portugal’s repopulation project for the threatened species have bred for the first time.
A young lynx, or 'kitten', has been photographed with its mother in the Guadiana Valley area. The news was announced by the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forestry which added that this is the first time for several decades that a pair successfully has bred.
EDP’s boss António Mexia says "It's not fair" that the ‘social tariff’ costs the electricity and gas supplier €40 million a year.
Complaining that the poorest in Portuguese society who are unable to afford EDP’s rates - among the highest in Europe - are costing his shareholders good money, Meixa made his complaint at a meeting in London.
