More confusion over airline carry-on luggage is in the wings as new guidelines are drawn up.
The size of bags allowed onto a plane could be screwed down further if carriers adopt new proposals put forward by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the industry trade body.
Traditional food retailing in Britain remains in turmoil as Sainsbury’s sales fell for the sixth quarter in a row, Morrison has further reduced its prices, and Tesco proves to be shoppers’ least favourite.
Sainsbury’s, the nation’s third largest supermarket, reported ever dwindling sales, with a 0.6% drop in the last quarter.
The police have been out and about along the shoreline near Lagos in the hunt for more bales of drugs after the discovery of every toker’s dream, a 45Kg floating supply of high grade hashish.
The Maritime Police has been searching along Figueira beach where the bale was found floating not far from the shoreline, according to the Lagos port captain.
Just as the international news was getting really bleak and boring along comes Sepp Blatter to cheer things up and add to our waning excitement over former Prime Minister José Sócrates.
It turns out that apart from anything else, the diminutive Blatter is a dirty old man and nearly got a punch in the gob for eyeing up the glamorous girlfriend of John Dalaney, chief executive of the Irish Football Association. He stared at her for seven or eight whole seconds before Delaney warned him to “move on”, or words to that effect.
Judge Carlos Alexandre decided that the former prime minister José Sócrates should remain in Evora prison.
Sócrates would not consent to wearing an electronic bracelet on home arrest so the judge decided he could stay put.
Drivers who have managed to pay tolls for travel on the Algarve’s Via do Infante will not be best pleased to read that those who did not bother to pay, or found the system too complicated to pay within the allotted period, are to qualify for large discounts.
The formerly free SCUT roads in Portugal, including the Algarve's A22-Via do Infante, were deemed illegal by the European Commission in 2011, yet the government continues to allow authoirsed companies to collect money from drivers, and applies the full force of the state's coercive collection system to non-payers despite toll companies not being government bodies.
Work started at the beginning of June to fix the anchors to buildings along Faro’s shopping streets in preparation for a series of shade sails to keep shoppers cooler in the summer months.
Both traders’ organisation ACRAL and the local Business Development Association for Faro’s Historical area are keen to upgrade the shopping facilities by keeping people shaded as they meander.
Perhaps only in countries dependent on billions of euros of grant income could there be a €20,000 dinner to celebrate spending all the money.
Paulo Portas, pictured below, lacking any serious portfolio as deputy prime minister, allied himself temporarily to agriculture when he felt some of the EU-fuelled glory surely must shine on his wise head.
