A former Metropolitan Police Flying Squad chief has questioned whether the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann should continue.
The latest estimate of the money spent to date is £11 million with no arrests.
The Technical Unit for Budget Support estimates that Portugal’s deficit is running currently at 4.9% which casts grave doubts that the government target can be met by the year end.
In its analysis of the budget performance to July, the Unit concluded that the budget deficit is way over target and that is will ‘hardly be possible’ to hit the government’s 2.7% commitment, or even the even the 3.2% forecast from the European Commission.
The Algarve’s health authority has issued an alert for West Nile virus after a suspected case was diagnosed in Faro.
The virus is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito so the advice is simple, avoid mosquito bites by using repellents and mosquito nets.
The Bank of Portugal and the Chinese insurance giant, Anbang have failed to come to any sort of acceptable agreement over the sale of Novo Banco, the good part of BES created amid the turmoil of last August.
Anbang offered €3.5 billion but wanted indemnity against a closet full of skeletons including being reimbursed if Novo Banco needs recapitalising, which Santander reckons it does - to the tune of €2 billion.
A Spanish man was released from his six-day kidnap ordeal after a police raid in the Costa del Sol.
The 27-year-old was being held for ransom of €35,000. Family members informed the police that he had been kidnapped in the town of Mijas, near Marbella, and that his captors were threatening to kill him unless the ransom was paid.
The manufacturing sector in France has suffered another contraction during the August sizzle which was the fourth month in a row of tumbling fortune.
Fewer than expected orders came in for factory goods which resulted in job losses. The sharp decline is likely to impact on the overall economy.
One Icelander managed to rouse 11,000 fellow citizens to offer help and refuge to Syrian refugees.
When the Icelandic government said it would take in a mere 50 refugees, a prominent author and professor swung into action by launching a Facebook campaign which had an open letter to the country’s welfare minister asking her to allow people to help.
TAP lost €143 million in the first half of 2015, €60 million more than the appalling result from the same period the year before. The increased loss can be put down to the lack of bookings and the refunds resulting from the May pilots' strike.
The state owned airline's results severely dented the half-yearly results of Parpública, the company that owns state assets on behalf of the Portuguese public.
