This afternoon, aggrieved BES customers who have lost their money in Ricardo Salgado's commercial paper scam tried to push over the crowd control barriers set up by the police in front of PM Pedro Passos Coelho’s official residence.

BES protestors first went to Novo Banco’s office in Avenida da Liberdade, the the Socialsist Party headquarters in Rato and then to the prime minister’s official residence in São Bento.

The silting up of the Ria Formosa has been blamed for an accident next to the Fuzeta sand bar.

A sightseeing pleasure boat with six people on board was swamped by a wave and had to be abandoned.

An American airline is experimenting with pre-loading luggage in the cabin to see if they will make boarding quicker and easier.

Delta Airlines has set up an Early Valet service on some two dozen busy routes, such as New York, Atlanta and Seattle.

Two employees at the wind farm at Raposeira, Vila do Bispo have been seriously injured after an ‘electrical discharge,’ according to the GNR command in Faro.

The men are in critical condition and have suffered serious burns.

In the past three years, requests for help related to the use of cannabis have outstripped those for of heroin and cocaine.

This is one of the greatest changes in the inevitable flip side of Portugal’s drug scene, the treatment of those whose use has become out of control.

The film streaming service Netflix will be available in Spain in October this year and the company plans to be in Portugal "sometime in 2016" with later news reports suggesting that an October 2015 launch is on the cards.

In October, viewers in Spain will be able to access the streaming service for TV series and films for around €8 a month, according to the founder and president of the company, Reed Hastings, in an interview printed in the Spanish daily El Mundo.

After a sustained four-year campaign by locals and celebrities alike, the Scottish company Cairn Energy said it is to abandon its plan to prospect for oil 30 miles off the coast.

Approval had been granted in 2011 by Madrid which has been eager to reduce Spain’s 80% reliance on imported oil. Locals, however, were resolutely opposed, concerned that the work would harm the environment and tourism.

Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has chosen to keep quiet about the TAP privatisation suspension but did make several comments today including that the government will come up with a well-reasoned counter argument to yesterday’s Supreme Administrative Court decision.

The government line is that the sale of TAP is ‘in the public interest’ and the PM said to journalists today that he hopes that the privatisation does not get derailed as “the process of privatisation is essential to save the company."