The Attorney General's Office has confirmed that the National Director of the Aliens and Borders Service (SEF) Manuel Jarmela Palos, has been arrested on corruption charges related to the 'golden visa' scheme. His new nick-name is 'Mr 10%' which, according to Correio da Manhã, was the commission level for certain visa applications that he authorised or fast-tracked.

Sending shockwaves through Portugal's murky and corrupt corridors of power, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice, Maria Antónia Anes, suffered the indignity of being arrested in the Ministry of Justice building and taken away by police for questioning.

In a bold, if unconventional move, the Algarve’s council bosses have decided that they ought to buy the fibre optic system installed by Globalgarve, now that they successfully have driven the company into receivership.

The mayors have even come up with a price for the network which is substantially below the price that they wanted to charge a third party in a desperate attempt to keep the service running.

Industrial output picked up in the eurozone during September, growing by an average 0.6% over August this year.

But this was not the case for Portugal where industrial production suffered a drop of -4.1%. This was the greatest decrease in all of the eurozone countries.

Petrofer workers in the Algarve have voted to 'suspend their contracts' so they at least can apply for unemployment benefits after months of impasse.

The employees of Petrofer’s filling stations got together today to discuss their options, one of which is formally to suspend their own contracts due to wage arrears and the other was the continuing problem that they have no fuel or goods to sell.

Eurostar has launched a new state-of-the-art train capable of travelling at 320 kilometres an hour.

The Channel Tunnel train, Siemens e320, will enter service next year, allowing passengers to make the 306-mile trip from Paris to London in just two hours.

The Council of Ministers today has agreed to sell off state owned airline TAP, well... part of it.

Portugal's Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro said this afternoon that the plan is to offload 66% of the airline, 61% to an investor or investors, with 5% set aside for TAP employees.

America’s most wanted cyber criminal was undone by his password.

Jeremy Hammond, 29, made it his mission to hack into US government websites to “expose and confront injustice”.

The Algarve has its first case of Legionella but the patient is out of intensive care and is receiving further specialist treatment, according a spokesman at Hospitals of the Algarve (CHA).

The patient is directly linked to the outbreak in Vila Franca de Xira, greater Lisbon and was in Intensive Care in Faro hospital.