New broom DCI Nicola Wall arrived at the Judicial Police building in Faro this morning as further witnesses are scheduled to be heard in the Madeline McCann inquiry.
Wall is taking over Operation Grange from Andy Redwood (pictured) and she will be leading the team responsible for the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007.
A 10-year old Swiss boy has died in a tragic accident after being buried in sand while playing at a west coast beauty spot.
The boy and his younger brother were playing in the dunes at Carvalhal Beach, between Odmeira and Aljezur, when a tunnel that they had dug collapsed, trapping the boy under the sand.
Today it was the turn of Jose Maria Ricciardi to face parliament in the inquiry into the BES collapse.
Ricciardi, who famously turned from much loved cousin of Ricardo Salgado, into his arch enemy, did not hesitate today to trash Salgado’s reputation and blame him for an autocratic style of leadership which hastened the demise of the Espírito Santo Group.
Airline fares could drop by as much as 5% in 2015, the International Air Transport Association (Iata) has said.
Cheaper fuel and growth in the number of passengers has brought in greater profits to the airlines.
Christmas shoppers in the UK are nearly the most generous in the world, topped only by people in Ireland.
Spending in Ireland was an average of £750 per person over the course of November and December last year while the average British shopper spent £680 on goods for Christmas last year, according to a report from PwC.
It is the best performance by Portugal’s exporters so far this year as, according to data from the National Statistics Institute, imports have slowed and exports have risen significantly compared to October 2013.
October’s exports of goods increased 9.4%, the largest annual increase of 2014, with factories invoicing €4.638 billion. The imports of goods into the country increased just 1.2% enabling the overall balance of trade for the year to decrease by €190 million.
The world’s longest rail journey came to an end in Madrid this week after travelling 8,111 miles from China.
It is the first direct link between China and Spain. The maiden journey began 20 days earlier in Yiwu in eastern China and passed through six countries - Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France.
The black economy is nearing its full potential in Portugal with some €46 billion now estimated to be traded without trace or taxation.
Despite the political rhetoric, and the punitive weapons being employed by an increasingly despotic tax authority, the efforts are failing as the real unregistered economy has grown to the equivalent of 26.8% of GDP.
