The ugly face of social media is becoming increasingly apparent with police struggling to deal with reports of harassment and sexual grooming.
Britain’s largest police force recorded 1,207 crimes reported to them which involved Facebook in the crime report. This was a rapid increase of 21% in only two years.
Lisbon, with its deep water moorings and coherent cruise tourism offer, welcomed 500,872 passengers in 2014 who between them spent an estimated €92 million in the city.
Portimão received 20,000 passengers in 2013 and sees the possibility of 250,000 a year if ever the port is modernised so the city can accept larger ships.
For hundreds of years, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was once among the world’s tallest buildings as well as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Egyptian officials have said that plans are underway to rebuild the ruined lighthouse.
It took the deaths of 400 children to make the people of the Netherlands to realise that their love affair with the car had to end.
Automobiles were seen as the transport of the future in the 1960s, the boom time which followed the war. Entire districts were torn down in order to create space for vehicle travel.
The Uber/Lisbon website, which arranges private cabs for happy customers, is still live with passengers able to access the service despite an injunction banning the website from operating.
New customers may register and existing customers use the Uber cab services despite the Central Court of Lisbon granting a banning odder to Antral, the deeply worried National Association of Road Transporters in Passenger Cars.
An estimate that over one million properties may have their rates bills raised is contained in a proposal by the 'Group of 12' economists reporting to socialist party leader António Costa.
The Algarve would be hard hit along with Sintra and Cascais (pictured).
The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, is reported to have said that he wants “a fair deal with Britain” and “stands ready to work constructively with the new government” of the UK.
“The Commission will examine in a polite, friendly and objective way any proposals, ideas or requests that the UK may put forward," he added.
"It's import further to streamline public spending through a comprehensive reform of salaries, pensions and tax reforms," according to an IMF report issued today with forecasts more pessimistic than those of Portugal’s Government.
The IMF has said it before, and is saying it again, Portugal must cut its public spending, and insists on the need to "continue structural reforms" to improve competitiveness.
