The University of Algarve is in danger of the "total stoppage of its activities before the end of the year" if there is no increase in funding from the 2014 State Budget according to the University Dean.

The new University chief, António Branco said he had met with the administrator of the University of Algarve (UAlg) to learn in detail of its financial state.

For six months now the law in Portugal has required that before licensing, obligatory training of dangerous dogs is carried out by certified coaches.

This was one of the new areas of legislation to control dangerous or potentially dangerous dogs introduced last year. Obligatory training had to be carried out by someone registered with the General Directorate for Food and Veterinary Services (DGAV).

Brittany Ferries is to provide a new lost-cost service from 25 March.

The “économie” service will operate on weekends between Portsmouth and Santander. There will also be four return passenger crossings between Portsmouth and Le Havre.

British consumers last year lodged a complaint nearly every second about products and services.

In all, 38 million customer complaints were made in the course of 2013, according to the Ombudsman Services.

Britain’s super rich invest more money in property than their peers in most other countries of the world.

The UK is in fourth position when examining how the wealthiest invest their money.

"It disgusts me, the idea of handing out premium cars," said the political commentator Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa this weekend.

While agreeing with a policy of incentives for taxpayers to request proper receipts for purchases, the well-respected pundit said that a luxury car lottery was "repugnant" and it embodies the antithesis of everything that Pedro Passos Coelho had vowed to do.

Bensafrim, near Lagos is the preferred location for Match Algarve a massive football village to be built by Portuguese and Dutch entrepreneurs at a budgeted cost of €110 million.

With the blessing of the Bensafrim parish council and hoped for agreement from Lagos Council the project is expected to start in 2016.

Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Saturday that Portugal can not afford to keep the works of Miró, adding that when the government is having difficulty in providing money for repairing our national assets, it is not going to spend €35 or €37 or €40 million to keep some paintings by Miró, when "we don’t have the conditions to display and enjoy them."