Brits planning to drive outside the UK after 8 June this year will need to take a special code if they plan to rent a car abroad.

The paper British driving licence will be computerised on that date.

The craze for colouring books for adults to use has begun to enter the mainstream after its recent beginnings as an “underground hobby”.

Laurence King Publishing said in weeks it had sold the whole 225,980 print run of Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest, published last month.

‘Ponytail’ warriors are ready to defend a country against cyber attack.

The European republic has a total headcount of just 1.3 million people, although it jostles alongside its old master.

Skilled computer system hackers allied to the secret Anonymous Portugal group has been at it again despite many of their number having been arrested in February and charged for sins against the state.

The arrests earlier in the year included that of the journalist Rui Cruz who runs the Tugaleaks website plus seven alleged members of Anonymous whose activities have been causing deep embarrassment to the government.

The Algarve as a holiday destination has yet again nearly topped the annual (British) Post Office survey for best prices.

It was in second place after Sunny Beach in Bulgaria.

The booze cruise, which waned in popularity, is now making a strong come back.

British consumers are finding they can make great savings by crossing the Channel to France where the euro has weakened and the taxes are less.

A British stag party member has made the national headlines in Portugal for all the wrong reasons as he was found much the worse for wear, attached to a lamp post in the stag capital of the Algarve, Albufeira.

Wearing but a grin, the young man had been secured to the council's street lighting solution by clingfilm with a beer bottle firmly wedged between his buttocks.

The much feared Vampire Squid of legend, Goldman Sachs, is trying to ensure that claims by its Oak Finance investment vehicle in a Portuguese court remain on hold for the time being.

This is at least until a London court decides on whether the $835 million loan (€770 million) made to BES in 2014 is the responsibility of Novo Banco or of the ‘bad bank’ BES.