The omnipresent International Monetary Fund has reviewed Portugal’s spending on education, the conclusions will not be welcomed by teachers.
The usual blurb about 'improving efficiency' and a 'need to raise performance in education' were as expected but an emphasis on one unstoppable trend will help elevate the subject to the forthcoming election battlefield.
Burglars in the UK are sending unmanned drones over private houses in order to identify potential targets, police have warned.
Drones, or “remotely piloted aircraft” (RPA), can be purchased for as little as £30 although the outlay is likely to be higher for advanced, high definition cameras for both still and video close-up pictures.
Portugal's Minister of the Environment, Jorge Moreira da Silva, finished his Algarve tour on Friday at a meeting in Faro that was meant to be a discussion about the Ria Formosa demolition programme being carried out by the Polis company but currently on hold.
The highly controversial demolitions already have set affected islanders on a collision course with the government but a previous meeting with the Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho gave organisers a degree of hope that his Minister of the Environment would listen to their genuine and well reasoned opposition to their eviction, the removal of their homes and subsequent ending of their unique way of life.
Portugal’s prime minister is delighted that there have been "three firm proposals" to buy the state airline TAP.
Commenting that “it would be bad” if the sale had not gone through before the end of the current mandate as he had made a promise that TAP would be sold off.
Since the introduction of payment through smart phones two years ago, many Danes has dispensed with carrying cash and bank cards.
The Danish Chamber of Commerce is recommending that shops and services be given the option of going completely cash-free.
The Junta de Andalucía has announced it has completed the dredging works at the mouth of the Guadiana.
The dredging work removed far more than originally envisaged planned with 63,000 cubic meters of sand shifted, instead of the 55,000 planned for.
British people are to be given their say over off shore wind farms.
New Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said any new schemes need to have the support of local people in order to go ahead. This new power will be in the Queen’s Speech next week, she said.
People in the UK are spending twice as much time on the internet now than they did ten years ago, thanks in part to the availability of smart phones and tablets.
Unsurprisingly, young people aged from 16 to 24 are the heaviest users, investing an average the equivalent of more than a day a week (27.5 hours) on the internet, according to Ofcom. This has rocketed from 10.5 hours per week in 2005.
