Marks & Spencer reports that its best selling ready meal in Paris is chicken tikka masala, with just one store selling more than 70,000 a year.
M&S is not alone in seeing a rise in popularity of British food. Pret a Manger is capitalising on quick food to go as well as a host of smaller British purveyors.
Expats seeking to cash in their UK personal pensions next year under new British government legislation may expect some difficulties along the way.
From April next year, pension pots can be accessed once a person reaches 55. People will be able to take as much of the money as they wish, although 75% is taxable at a marginal rate and 25% is free of tax.
Spain’s economy may be turning a corner after initial estimates suggest that there has been growth for five quarters in a row.
The country’s statistics office was the economy grew by 0.5% during the July to September quarter. This follows growth of 0.6% in the quarter before.
Olhão’s battle of the railway crossing continues as the national railway company Refer has tried to render the crossing impassable by opening up a deep and dangerous trench.
This latest move has created an immensely tricky pedestrian crossing and has forced the elderly, wheelchair users and people with prams and trolleys to use the narrow, steep underpass while leaving the fleet-of-foot a testing challenge either to jump the new trench or step down onto two rather wobbly blocks in order to cross.
The amount of money raised by the British government through indirect taxes has gone up by 50% in the last decade.
The amount collected by HMRC in “stealth” taxes went from £93bn in 2003-04 to £138bn in the last tax year (2013-14), research from Bloomsbury Professional, a specialist tax publisher, found.
A comprehensive report on doing business in 189 countries has ranked Portugal in 25th position, ahead of France, Spain and Italy.
Leaders in the field were Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Denmark as the best places to conduct business.
The Mediterranean’s stock of swordfish is suffering serious threat from illegal overfishing.
The situation is most dire in southern Italy where inadequate control is exercised, leading to fishing boats illegally catching huge quantities of swordfish, according to an internal EU fishery inspectors report.
Two computer experts working on the Citius computer system that failed to launch on September 1st had been under investigation by the Judicial Police cybercrime unit for 'acts of sabotage' claimed by the Justice Minister, but now the investigation is into the lesser charge of 'concealing information' - information that they were willing to hand over but instead were asked to clear their desks.
The dramatic 'sabotage' claims were designed to create a legitimate reson for Minister Paula Teixeira da Cruz's failure to launch the Citius computer project on time, in fact it was six weeks late in starting and caused the country's court system to grind to a halt.
