Portuguese pharmaceutical company Bial has heard that an expert panel tasked with investigating the cause of a clinical trial death in France three months ago has found that the volunteer died “as a result of the drug’s toxicity”.

In a report published earlier this week by the French agency for the Safety of Health Products, experts said the incident “seemed clearly linked” to the “molecule” being tested , rather than possible mistakes in how the drug was administered, or its dosage.

Two underage lovebirds ran away from home, telling their parents: “We love you. See you when we’re grown up.” Fourteen-year-old Juliana Ribeiro and her 16-year-old sweetheart Marco Santos went missing last Friday.

Their notes to their parents said: “We have work, we’re not going to be hungry, don’t call the police”, and Marco is understood to have written: “Don’t sell my scooter, or my things. Sorry for what we’ve done, but we love you.”

With the heartbreaking bid for the freedom to be together splashed over the nation’s best-read tabloid, it wasn’t long before the duo was located.

UK weekly newspaper The Economist has launched an interactive poll tracker that features voting intentions for Britain’s upcoming EU referendum.

“Readers can use this to find what a weighted average of the main polls reveals about public opinion towards Brexit, overall or by region, age, sex, class and political party,” the paper explains.

TAP airline is reported to have opened an inquiry into the “very serious” case of a long-haul pilot found driving with a blood alcohol level of 3.34g/l - “almost six times over the limit”. Ordered to appear in court the next day, the pilot told police he would not be showing up as he would be flying. The airline has refuted this, saying the pilot is on sick leave.

With focus never far from Portugal’s financial situation, news today has returned to the Plan B that Brussels is ‘demanding’ - and which Portugal’s Socialist leaders are saying ‘doesn’t exist’.

Cutting through the verbiage, the fact that President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has called yet another Council of State - this time for July - is extremely relevant.

Thousands of people are pushing for “Justice for Rodrigo Lapa”, the Algarve teen whose battered body was found on scrubland near his Portimão home in February - presumably killed by his absconded Brazilian stepfather.

They refuse to accept that “an individual who has committed a crime in Portugal is able to hide under the flag of another nationality, in the shelter of agreements between countries”.

Two underage lovebirds have runaway from home, telling their parents: “We love you. See you when we’re grown up”

Fourteen-year-old Juliana Ribeiro and her 16-year-old sweetheart Marco Santos went missing last Friday.

Their notes to their parents said: “We have work, we’re not going to be hungry, don’t call the police”, and Marco is understood to have written: “Don’t sell my scooter, or my things. Sorry for what we’ve done, but we love you. "

The Algarve’s infamous EN125 road – known for its alarming number of car accidents – has also been flagged as “unsafe for cyclists or pedestrians”.