The French-owned electrical group has posted a half-year loss of €42.6 million, similar to last year, with worldwide turnover down 0.7% to €1,628 million.
For Spain and Portugal, unhelpfully the figures are lumped together for the two countries, sales dropped 3.1% to €284 million compared to the first six months of last year on a like-for-like basis, i.e. excluding figures from new stores.
An 18-year-old French holidaymaker died on Saturday after falling from the 6th floor of a tourist apartment block at Praia da Rocha, Portimão.
Emergency services were alerted at 20:17 yesterday but the young woman was declared dead at the scene at the foot of Rocha Tower.
Two dogs caused havoc on a Quarteira beach, one biting a 57-year-old man, and both eventually were captured and sent to Loulé municipal kennels to await their fate.
The dogs, a mother and son, caused panic amongst holidaymakers on the beach at the end of Wednesday afternoon.
Remember the early days of the internet when people thought shopping online would take over? That day is rapidly approaching.
British internet shops will for the first time this year see their sales surpass those made by the websites of physical stores in the UK.
The former trickle of unpaid Portuguese workers returning from Angola has turned into a flood as 500 construction workers every month are finding their way back home to face unemployment and an uncertain future.
The head of the Portuguese construction union warns that many of those who are coming from Angola to Portugal "will have to end up back there again, because there is no work in Portugal.”
The circumstances that led to a mother taking her newly born baby from Faro hospital’s neonatal area has drawn condemnation from the police and local child care centre, but some surprisingly wonderful comments from the normally outspoken and combative head of the Algarve’s hospitals, Dr Pedro Nunes.
The married 28-year-old mother, Alexandra Patrício, has a drug habit and was rightly worried that the state would take her baby from her soon after giving birth. She took the baby from the hospital two hours after it was born and went missing six days ago.
A con man who operated a wine scamming operation in the UK has been sent to prison.
Spyros Constantinos, 44, was sentenced to eight years after his five-year plot was uncovered. He fooled a number of professional people into parting with money by promising high returns on ‘fine Bordeaux wine’.
The price of gold has declined sharply, dipping to a five year low on 24 July.
Prices had been falling for six weeks in a row, the longest period since 2004.
