Tourists visiting Falésia beach in Albufeira, this Easter weekend were faced with a collapsed wooden stairway, destroyed in the November 1st storm last year
Many clambered down with some difficulty but none were impressed that six months later, this essential access still lay in ruins.
The Troika left Portugal in June 2014, but despite high hopes that this would herald an end to wage capping, a year later Portuguese workers were earning the same as they did two years before.
in the year to April last year, workers' base salary was €950, virtually the same as recorded in April 2012, despite the end of civil service salary reductions.
A British holidaymaker has been rescued from the sea off Madeira after attempting to swim to her cruise liner after it had left port.
Susan Brown, a 65-year-old, had an argument with her husband over whether to cut short their luxury cruise holiday and later told hospital staff that she had jumped into the water to swim to her cruise ship as she thought her husband had changed his mind over their plan to abort their holiday and that he was on board the Marco Polo.
The Mercedes Sprinter van which crashed head-on into an Italian meat lorry, causing the death of 12 Portuguese travelling from Romont in Switzerland to Portugal, was registered for only six occupants.
Reports suggest that the Mercedes had been adapted to seat passengers on folding chairs placed in the loading space, which is in breach of the insurance conditions.
Twelve Portuguese are reported to have died on impact as the Mercedes Sprinter van in which they were travelling through France hit an oncoming lorry head-on.
The location of the crash is Moulins, Allier in central France and the bodies have been taken to Montbeugny in the Auvergne as families are contacted in Portugal.
German auto manufacturer VW said it is to recall some 800,000 vehicles worldwide due to a potential foot pedal problem.
More than half of the vehicles are the Porsche Cayenne built from 2011 to 2016 and the remainder are the Toureg model.
Portugal’s airport workers union (SITAVA) agreed in Faro today the new groundhandling deal with Ryanair is "illegal and fraudulent."
"We are here today to denounce illegality and fraud," said Mário Reis, the union delegate from SITAVA representing baggage handlers from Portway, many of whom face the sack.
Members of the Committee of Inquiry that has been set up to look into the collapse and rushed sale of the Portuguese bank Banif are to insist that the documents they have requested are delivered before the committee meets on Monday.
Weak excuses for non-delivery of the requested information have been sent in by the Bank of Portugal, auditor Ernst & Young, and Finpro, a company owned by Caixa Geral, Banif and Américo Amorim.
