Last year the Treasury made attachment of wages orders, 1,457 per day, totaling more than 532,000.  The Portuguese tax men sent out over nine million emails to taxpayers with tax debts, and seized wages, bank accounts and any other financial products it could uncover.

The total number of actions by the state against its citizens has more than doubled since 2011 with 611,941 cases of asset seizure, 576,751 bank accounts raided, plus the daily toll of wages orders.

Scientists in Portugal have identified what is now thought to be Europe’s largest predator as fossilised remains including bones, eggs and even embryos, have been uncovered from a cliff at Praia da Vermelha north of Lisbon.

The 10 metre animal, Torvosaurus Gurneyi, was a two-legged carnivore with blade-like teeth 10 centimetres in length and lived in the Jurassic period around 150 million years ago.

The Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, ‘should apologise’ to the Algarve for threatening that there will be no money to fully electrify and upgrade the Algarve railway system if the State has to ‘rescue’ the halted development and safety work on the EN 125, according to the ' Salvar Faro, com o Coração’ (Save Faro with a Heart) movement, which claims that the Secretary of State’s position "offended the Algarve and that this is not to be tolerated."

An e-commerce and Business Cooperation accord was presented to the world today in Faro. The agreement aims to deepen the collaboration and expand e-commerce opportunities between companies in the Algarve and Andalusia in Spain.

Faro councillor Paulo Santos explained that the cross-border project is an important initiative to encourage and facilitate business cooperation between companies in the Algarve and Andalusia, adding "It is important that there is synergy to support the economy in these two areas."

The interest rate for the eurozone has been kept at its record low of 0.25%, while in the UK interest rates are to remain at 0.5%.

The euro region rates have been the same since November 2013. The interest rate low in Britain has last for five years already. Analysts believe it will not rise until this time next year.

The British Museum turned up trumps again last year, maintaining its position as the UK’s most visited attraction.

More than six million visitors, a 20% increase over 2012, went to view its vast treasures and special exhibitions.

Bank details that prosecutors suspected of belonging to politicians in the Submarine case have been released by Swiss authorities and turn out to be accounts held by BES Directors.

The Swiss Supreme Court decided to reveal the account holders to Portugal’s Public Prosecutor. The data relating to the three bank accounts was requested in May 2012 by Portugal’s Central Department of Investigation and Penal Action.

Portugal currently is missing out on a significant opportunity to convert household waste, as well as industrial, agricultural and forestry wastes, into advanced renewable biofuels, according to a new report.

The report, 'Wasted: Europe’s Untapped Resource' has been published following a project convened by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), a philanthropic organisation promoting climate and energy policies to reduce Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions.