The trial has started of the Dutch ophthalmologist Franciscus Versteeg who ran the I-QMed clinic in Lagoa’s business park.
Versteeg is accused of causing physical harm due to negligence and four of his former patients are looking for compensation totalling around €200,000.
The head of the Operation Grange team, Andy Redwood is to retire from the Metropolitan Police Service on December 22 this year.
Redwood’s place at the head of the Scotland Yard team investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann will be filled by Nicola Wall.
Police are hunting a British man who is believed to have been involved with the murder of another Briton in Spain last April.
Paul Scott, 32, from Liverpool, is wanted over the killing of 25-year-old Francis Brennan in Alicante, according to the UK’s National Crime Agency.
Seventy years after the end of WWII, a compensation package has been agreed for victims of the Holocaust who were deported by the French rail company.
Reparations will be paid to those transported by state rail company SNCF to Nazi concentration camps. The rail company transported some 76,000 Jews to Nazi camps during the war, but only about 3,000 survived.
Ten people who are believed to be responsible for smuggling migrants into Europe have been arrested in Italy and in Germany.
One of them is believed to be the ringleader behind some 20 treacherous voyages on unsafe boats across the Mediterranean, including the crossing in which some 244 people perished off the coast of Libya last June.
On December 11, Portimão will mark its 90th anniversary as a city and a programme of cheery activities has been planned by the council to run between December 6 and 15.
Literature, theatre, music and sport will be used to ‘evoke the past, celebrate the present and, above all to project the future,’ according to the bankrupt city hall which is suffering from the financial mismanagement of previous regimes, an inability to fix the serious problems this has brought about, and the current anger from locals at the latest tax move to relieve them of even more of their money.
The retail sector in Portugal remains subdued, with sales falling 1.6% in October compared to the month before.
September had seen an even greater decline of 2.5%. This followed the better months of July and August when retail sales had increased.
Last year, a record 842 million people travelled by air in Europe.
This was an increase of 1.7% over 2012.
