Drivers beware - GNR speeding purge starts today

gnrstopStarting today and ending on Sunday 23rd April, GNR road traffic units will be concentrating on catching speeding motorists by using their devilish range of mobile and fixed speed control gizmos.

Concentrating on roads where speeding already has proven to be the cause of serious accidents, the GNR aims to add to this year’s catch of 44,000 motorists fined for exceeding the speed limit.

Thousands of overseas Britons barred from voting in UK general election

Overseas 4794Britons wanting to vote need to check they are on the electoral roll at their last UK address and then can apply for a postal or proxy vote.

Those who have lived outside the UK for 15 years or more remain unable to vote as the long-promised rule change has not been put into effect.

Still searching for Conman Ken

kenjonesLee Mackenzie, author of a book published this week called The Charming Predator, is hoping to flush out the notorious, international conman Kenner Elias Jones, her former husband. He was last reported to the police while seeking political asylum in Sweden, writes Len Port

Originally from Caernarfon in Wales, Jones absconded from a trial in Lewes Crown Court in Sussex, England, in 2003. He has been at large ever since, continuing a career of theft, deception and fraud.

Spain's Prime Minister called as a witness in massive corruption investigation

spanishpmThe Spanish leader, Mariano Rajoy, will be called as a witness in the Gurtel corruption case that is investigating a vast network involving several leaders of the Popular Party, which Rajoy leads.

The decision was approved by a majority of the three judges - two for and one against - who make up the National Court, a court specialising in political/financial and terrorism cases.

Swaps contracts litigation ends in €2.3 billion loan from Santander Totta

carrisPortugal’s Communist Party wants the Government to provide parliament with all the documentation on the judicial process between the State and Santander Totta in the swaps contracts fiasco.

The parliamentary group of the PCP already has submitted an application to the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee to request the documents from the Ministry of Finance. This request was unanimously approved today in parliament.

Whatsapp child porn ring smashed

11416A network of 100 distribution groups for the sexual exploitation of children through various digital platforms has been dismantled with one of the 38 arrests made in Portugal

More than 100 groups used Whatsapp and Darkweb to share child pornography. The criminals were detected in a transnational police operation to combat the distribution of child porn using digital platforms.

Holiday Boeing 757 lands in Oporto with shattered windscreen

WindscreenAeroplaneBrokenA Thomson Airways' Boeing 757 that took off from Las Palmas on a flight to Luton had to make an emergency landing at Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport in Oporto as the aeroplane's windscreen had shattered but not imploded.

220 passengers were on board the end-of-holiday flight as it descended from 30,000 feet to 10,000 feet and headed to Oporto where airport operator ANA cleared a runway and put emergency services on full alert.

Aethel Partners to block Novo Banco sale

novobancoshinylogoAethel Partners, the company that on February 24th sent in a knock-out bid for Novo Banco that could have seen €4 billion returned to long-suffering taxpayers, was led up the garden path by the Bank of Portugal, according to the company which now has launched a legal process to halt the Novo Banco sale.

At the time, the Bank of Portugal was negotiating ‘exclusively’ with US vulture fund, Lone Star, but Aethel Partners sent a letter of intent and a proposal to acquire Novo Banco for significantly more than the Lone Star bid of just €750 million up front for 75% of the company.