After years and years of planning, waiting and hoping, the research centre for Biodiversity at Oporto University has announced that ospreys, only casual visitors in Portugal for over a decade, have at last returned to breed and raise families.

A joint long term project between Italy, Spain and Portugal seems to have borne fruit with successful breeding pairs now a feature of the Andalucian skies but Portugal lagged behind, until now.

Amazon has now taken away free delivery in the UK for items worth less than £20, although books are not included in the new caveat.

The change means that customers must spend twice as much now in order to qualify for free delivery.

Gay Catholics today accused the president of Portugal's blood donation institute of holding some pretty old fashioned prejudices on blood donations from homosexuals.

In the opinion of the Catholic homosexuals association, for any increased risk from those engaging in risky sexual bahaviour, whether homosexual or not, the solution is not a ban on blood donations but an improvement in quality control.

Spain has put itself in the economic spotlight after a rapid spurt of growth.

GDP rose by 0.9% in the first three months of the year, the fastest pace since the before the global financial meltdown in 2007.

Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, the Secretary of State for Tourism, has slammed the TAP pilots strike as being bad for business and bad for a re-emerging tourism economy.

Claiming that visitors to Portugal spend a total of €1 million every hour, Nunes said that many of them arrive on TAP flights and, with the service reduced to minimum from May 1st to 10th, harm will be done to the tourism industry and the image of Portugal.  

The unemployment rate in Portugal was reported to be 13.5% as of March 2015.

This represents a decline in the jobless level from a year earlier when it stood at 14.7%.

Prepaid money cards are proving very popular among people in Britain planning on a foreign holiday later in the year.

The current favourable exchange rate has encouraged many to gamble that the best exchange rate can be secured now.

As the traffic numbers on the Algarve EN125 start to increase, two more serious accidents happened this morning, the first leaving one dead and at least eight injured, including a Nepalese and two Canadian tourists.

The bus that crashed near the Guia roundabout just before noon left a building in ruins and traffic at a standstill for hours as the emergency services attended to the injured, two of whom are said by the GNR command to be in a 'serious condition.'