People over the age of 50 in the UK have become the target of fraudsters trying to steal their pension savings.
Con artists are using phone, post and email to contact pensioners with their offer of “help” to access their pension savings early. They often say they can use a legal loophole to do this or that they can provide a one-off investment opportunity.
The police commander who attacked Benfica football fan José Magalhães (pictured) and his father could lose 60% of his salary during a 90 day suspension as a result of recommendations from a disciplinary hearing.
Commander Filipe Silva, whose attack in Guimarães on May 17 was seen worldwide on social media, faces the sanctions as proposed by the General Inspection of the Interior (IGAI) which has finished its inquiry into the incident.
John Noakes, a former Blue Peter tv presenter has been found after disappearing during a walk on the island of Mallorca early on Tuesday morning in 35C heat.
Noakes’s wife Vicky said she alerted police in Andratx, the district of the Balearic island where the couple live, that he was missing shortly after 9am.
The National Authority for the Fuel Market said today that the exploration contracts for the areas off the Algarve coastline are only for the exploration of gas deposits, not oil.
The body clarified that the prospecting off the Algarve coast is just that, prospecting, and detailed research to see if there is natural gas. No licenses exist for the extraction or commercial exploitation of anything found.
Infraestruturas de Portugal, the new company formed by the merger of Estradas de Portugal and rail company Refer, is spending €150,000 on a new logo.
The new branding will be chosen from designs submitted by 'in house creative team members.'
An international consultancy has reviewed investment attraction programmes in 19 countries which offer some sort of Golden Visa scheme and concluded that Portugal has the best.
The 'Global Residence and Citizenship Programs 2015' report from Henley & Partners points out that the minimum investment in qualifying property is €500,000 in Portugal, a value which the authors consider as low: also that property purchase costs and taxes are set at an attractive level.
Despite having no coast and receiving little publicity, landlocked Hungary is also trying to cope with an influx of migrants.
When hundreds of people in an overcrowded migrant camp began a fight and were hurling rocks, police fired tear gas.
The cooperative agreement between Alcoutim, Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António lies in tatters as Alcoutim mayor Osvaldo Gonçalves is shafted by his socialist councillors.
The three eastern Algarve municipalities were to benefit from a €3.5 million pilot project to share resources, to delegate and to decentralise in areas such as planning but only if all three had final approval from their council assemblies.
