Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho today displayed in full his cynical political tactics while fully expecting his audience to believe his every word concerning tolls on the Algarve's Via do Infante motorway and on teh Alentejo's SCUT network.
Visiting Guarda on a pre-election roadshow, the PM said that he had not lowered motorway toll rates in the Algarve and in the Alentejo because people would think this was just an election ploy.
The Nestlé company has been told it must prove that consumers can tell what a Kit Kat bar is if there are no markings or labels.
The European Court of Justice found against Nestlé which had wanted to trademark the shape of its chocolate bar in Britain.
A Danish teenage girl stabbed her mother to death after becoming fascinated with violent terrorist videos which she viewed online.
Lisa Borch, who was 15 at the time, was sentenced to nine year in prison for the crime.
A survey by the polling company Eurosondagem has been picked up by Reuters and shows the Socialist Party slipping 0.5% to 35.5% of the vote with the government coalition down one point to 34%.
With just over two weeks to go before the general election the two main contenders are neck and neck with neither likely to form a government with a clear majority.
The Via Algarviana walking trail has received a financial reprieve as those Algarve councils through which the route passes have agreed to stump up just over €1,700 each to keep the paths maintained for thousands of intrepid off-season tourists.
After the last drips of EC funding drained away this summer, the eco-organisation Almargem, which has been managing and promoting the route since it was pieced together in 2009, has faced the prospect of having to walk away from the project despite claims of the facility being an essential part of non-summer tourism by the very councils that had failed to ensure ongoing funding.
An extension to the public consultation period for those registering their land in the Loulé council area has failed to level out the flow of property owners desperate to lodge complaints over what they see as incorrect or incomplete registration details.
Queues have been forming at parish council offices with may concerned locals arriving hours before the doors open to get a chance to complain - and failing.
Olhão council, one of the poorest in the Algarve, wants to take out a loan of €1.1 million "to make various improvements in the county," including resurfacing its football pitch
The proposal by the Socialist executive will be taken to the Municipal Assembly on Friday, September 18th but needs opposition councillors’ support to vote it through.
A tense debate broadcast on the radio this morning saw the Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho react with an unusual degree of aggression while sharing the studio with the Socialist party leader António Costa (pictured).
With the exception of refugee crisis over which they agreed, all the other topics covered generated friction, in particular the issue of Social Security.
