The Oporto Judicial Police have arrested seven suspected gang members operating in the Alentejo, Guarda and the Algarve. The men are accused of trafficking in, and the exploitation of, human beings.

The accused belonged to three separate but linked gangs and are accused of holding six people as slaves who were forced to work in agriculture and construction. The victims were illiterate, disabled and have no family who might have noticed their absence.

The topic for the Longitude Prize is the battle against the rise of antibiotic resistance.

The project that can best overcome this problem will be awarded £10 million funding.

People who live in EU countries made 1.2 billion trips of at least one night during 2012.

Nearly half of the trips (48%) were for pleasure, 35% to visit family and friends, 13% were for business and 4% for other reasons.

MyFerryLink, which sails Dover-Calais, has been told that operations “must cease”.

Eurotunnel has been banned from operating the ferry service it initiated in August 2012.

A disturbing number of cases of elderly Faro area residents living alone in poor conditions with insufficient food, many abandoned by their family, has been identified in the past 18 months

The Senior Support Office for the Faro council area, Paula Paiva, said the service of the Office of Support to the Elderly in Faro has managed to make a very positive contribution to many lives.

The Portuguese are booking holidays at the last minute and are heading en masse to Albufeira, Portimão, Vilamoura and Lisbon.

The Spanish, British and French are the top three foreign groups looking to holiday in Portugal this summer.

Registration ends at midnight tonight with over 150,000 gas and electricity customers already signed up in DECO‘s second auction.

BY presenting energy companies with 150,000 potential new customers, DECO will be able to negotiate better price deals with the various deregulated energy supply companies, a tactic that has worked before but caused some adverse comments as it was found that DECO also negotiated a commission for itself, a deal it was keen to hide from its customers.

Portugal’s Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, today paid tribute to Portuguese soldiers killed in France in WWI.

The Portuguese prime minister saw locations where Portuguese soldiers had fought and then visited the cemetery where many who died in the 1918 Battle of La Lys (Batalha de La Lys) later were buried.