The head of Portugal’s leading eucalyptus pulp producer, Altri, has threatened to halt company investment if Portugal continues to demonise the tree.

Paulo Fernandes gave this warning directly to the prime minister while signing contracts worth €125 million to expand the Celbi and Celtejo bleached eucalyptus pulp mills.

Motorists in Paris are now obliged to display anti-pollution stickers on their vehicles.

The requirement took effect on 16 January and includes foreign registered cars, according to the Paris City Hall.

Spanish Secretary of State for European Affairs says that the procedure for authorising the construction of a nuclear waste dump “has not yet been initiated” but that anyway, the project will start in the next few days.

Portugal’s government has lodged a complaint to Brussels and wants the project to expand capacity at the Almaraz nuclear power station halted as any spill or incident could affect those living down river alongside the Tejo.

Filipe Silva, the Public Security Police officer, famous for being caught on camera as he attacked a member of the public with a baton outside a football stadium, is up for promotion.

The incident took place during the Benfica’s championship victory match against Guimarães in May 2015.

Portugal's former prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, was in the Algarve over the weekend in a vain attempt to position himself as the region’s champion over the Via do Infante tolls situation.

Tolls were introduced by the Passos Coelho coalition government amid howls of complaint from the Algarve’s road users who rightly pointed out that the motorway had largely been built using EU funds and was constructed to improve the region’s economy by speeding the journey time between east and west.

Temperatures will fall between four and nine degrees Celsius from Wednesday in mainland Portugal, due to a cold, dry mass of Arctic air.

According to the ever-cheerful Maria João Frada, a meteorologist at the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA), Monday and Tuesday will be cold and cloudy in central and northern parts of the country and clear in the south but on Wednesday until at least Friday or Saturday it will get seriously cold, for Portugal anyway.

The new UN representative for Food and Agriculture in Portugal, Francisco Sarmento, considers the creation of a food safety council as a priority in the fight against obesity and to get farmers back into the fields.

The Portuguese Government has already indicated in informal talks with Sarmento that it will give priority to the idea, but would go no further than that at this stage.

Lisbon, Faro and Braga are the three districts leading a surge in house prices across the nation.

The pace of house price increases has not been seen since the distant days of 2001.