UK Police are keen to make the first arrests in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. An international letter of request was sent last week by the Crown Prosecution Service asking for permission and cooperation with local forces.

Prosecutors and the police would not comment on the details of the letter but it is known that the suspects were present in Praia da Luz at the time Madeleine went missing and have ‘a history of burglary.’

An earthquake of magnitude 3.2  on the Richter scale with an epicenter offshore, about 55 miles south-southeast of Vila Real de Santo António, was felt and registered in Seismic Network Stations across Portugal at 22.26 on Sunday night.

A new airline ticket price comparison website will be launched by Google.

It will not only “change the way people buy airline tickets forever” but also “blow everyone else out of the water”, according Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary.

Not for the first time, the new visitors centre at Stonehenge has been given the thumbs down.

Visitors to the new £27 million centre have dished out criticism over “chaotic scenes” caused by the centre not coping well with the number of people.

The new facilities, created by English Heritage, were opened three weeks ago. The new layout was planned for people to be able to visit the site without the interruption of nearby car parking and road traffic.

Sainsbury’s is opening more local convenience shops in the UK than larger supermarkets.

This week, its 594th convenience store is due to open in Coventry and with it comes the overtaking of the number of supermarkets the company runs.

Sainsbury’s is opening two convenience stores every week.

For those that think the crisis is over, think again as the staggering level of dependency on food aid charity in the Algarve is laid bare by a report from Food Bank Against Hunger.

Between 22,000 and 25,000 people are in need of food aid in the Algarve, according to the latest estimate by Nuno Alves, the head of the Food Bank in the Algarve region, which already supports 16,000 poor people through 70 institutions.   

Medics working in the Algarve’s creaking healthcare sector have sent a letter to the regional health board outlining the 'degradation in health care’ just seven months after the creation of the new ‘Algarve Central Hospitals’ regional structure.
 
The explosive letter has been signed by 183 of the 220 specialists from the hospitals in Faro, Portimão and Lagos, some 80%.

In Paulo Portas’s keynote speech at the 25^th Congress of the CDS he highlighted the ‘new frontier’ of May 17th 2014, the day he expects the Troika to leave town, leaving Portugal to fend for itself in international waters.

At the conference Portas was re-elected leader of the CDS with 85.93 % of the votes.