Europol is to run a new specialist unit to monitor and shut down social media accounts used by the militant group calling itself Islamic State.

The Europe-wide police unit will aim to track the propaganda and messages that attracts new adherents from European countries.

Surveillance missions are due to start “within days” against the people traffickers in the Mediterranean.

EU foreign ministers gave unanimous approval to the first phase of the military operation against the smuggling gangs in north Africa.

Trusting people in the UK were defrauded of more than £23 million last year through one scam so simple as to be almost unbelievable.

Fraudsters call people, tell them they are from their bank and then persuade them to transfer their money into another account. That account inevitably is in the hands of the criminals.

The tax workers’ union president has hit back at plans to limit access to taxpayers’ data, saying that a recently announced plan merely is an attempt to "cover up the incompetence" of the Government.

Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs Paulo Núncio (pictured) is accused of trying to "change the subject" of the VIP Taxpayers List, according to Paulo Ralha.

‘There is increasing supply of local rentals to satisfy the market in the Algarve’ trumpeted the misleading headlines this weekend.

The fact is that more owners of illegally rented villas and apartments have signed up for the new Alojamento Local regime so the private sector now has outstripped the number of beds available in the region’s hotels.

A motorist in Britain has become the first person to be convicted of driving for too long in the middle lane of a motorway.

A van driver received a fine of nearly £1,000 along with five penalty points.

Portugal’s former railway authority REFER and road company Estradas de Portugal have merged in a move widely heralded by the government and management as being based on the huge cost savings that will be achieved.

To celebrate this new period of cost reductions and a concentration on analysing every part of the merged business to see where further savings can be made to the taxpayers' benefit, a party costing a conservative €130,000 has been thrown for at least 1,300 guests.

Two of the largest energy companies in the UK have issued anti-stab vests to hundreds of their employees.

Nearly 400 workers at British Gas and EDF Energy have been given the protective gear to use when they investigate energy theft or forcibly install pre-payment meters in households which are in arrears.