The president of the Algarve Tourist Board has met key partners from the regional tourism industry to “jointly analyse the challenges facing the Algarve with exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union."

The British are Portugal’s biggest tourist group accounting for 70% of the 8.3 million annual overnight stays in registered accommodation - and an equivalent percentage of the nights spent in unlicensed accommodation.

Plastic products dumped in British seas are carried to the Arctic region in two years’ time.

The scientists behind the study say that marine plastic pollution does “extreme harm” to the fragile polar environment.

The D&B new business barometer has swung the wrong way with fewer new businesses opening and an increase in company closures.

Between January and June this year, for every company that closed, three were opened. This might look like good news but the number of new business openings has dropped 4% compared to the same six month period in 2015 with company closures increasing 1.2%.

Lourenço, the 'miracle baby' born in Lisbon to his brain-dead mother, Sandra Pedro, has left the neonatal unit at the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital in Lisbon and gone home with his father.

The baby has been under the care of hospital staff for a month while a custody battle threatened to spoil the heart-warming story of Lourenço whose mother has suffered a brain haemorrhage when six months pregnant.

Ryanair offices at six German airports were raided by police on Wednesday as part of an investigation into tax evasion and unfair working practices.

Staff rooms at airports in Berlin, Cologne-Bonn, Frankfurt-Hahn, Bremen, Baden-Baden and Weeze were targeted, according to German media. Computers and iPads were seized along with personal documents of pilots.

As many as 130,000 abandoned cats and dogs were rescued in Spain during the course of 2015.

A study by campaigning and care group Fundación Affinity said that the figure is still “very high” while reporting that numbers have been falling in recent years.

The Islamic State terrorist organisation has a dedicated group that is planning attacks in the Al Andalus territory, specifically in Spain although Portugal is in the targeted area.

A statement posted on the Internet by the Islamic State in August 2015 showed the Iberian territory that the terrorist group wants to see occupied as a caliphate by 2020. (see below)

British expats in Spain have launched an appeal to the Spanish government for dual nationality.

A petition is asking for dual status for British expats who have lived in Spain for at least ten years.