Now it is the turn of the Red Cross to criticise the impact that austerity programmes is having in Europe.

Rogério Bacalhau, the new mayor of Faro, has pledged to go over the government’s head if necessary to get the various road projects in and around Faro finished off.

Albufeira council is to use tits to control kill off processionary caterpillars in public areas.

Suspicious Berliners have succeeded in their struggle to keep the city’s famous airport, Tempelhof, out of the hands of developers.

Tempelhof is probably best known to people outside of Germany as the airport where the 1948 Berlin airlift kept West Berlin alive and out of the clutches of the USSR.