The Ebola scare has been replaced with widespread concern bordering on panic as victims have started to die from the worst outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease ever recorded in Portugal.

The Director-General of Health, Francisco George, said today that there have been five fatalities related to Legionnaires' disease. By mid afternoon today 233 cases have been reported and 38 patients are in intensive care units.

Castro Marim, Vila Real de Santo António and Olhão are the three test councils where Águas do Algarve intends to supply water directly to the consumer.

The current tariff for the sale of water from Águas do Algarve is the same for all the councils, but each then sets the selling price to consumers, some higher than others.

In what turned out to be an unofficial poll, voters in Catalonia opted decidedly for independence.

Of the 2,250,000 people, including foreign residents, who turned out to vote, about 80% backed independence from Spain, according to the poll organisers. The region’s population is 7.5 million.

Black Friday 2014, scheduled for November 28, could be the biggest online shopping day the UK has ever experienced.

What has been a shopping experience in the UK spread in 2010 to the UK when Amazon offered Black Friday discounts to British buyers.

A forensic audit commissioned by the Bank of Portugal to delve into the activities at Banco Espírito Santo in the period leading up to its bailout this August will report formally later this month.

The consulting firm Deloitte which is carrying out the audit so far has been unable to identify the recipients of BES Chief Executive Ricardo Salgado’s largesse as hundreds of millions of euros were transferred to offshore companies in the lead up to the BES failure.

Eurostar is to celebrate its 20th anniversary by reducing ticket prices for a limited time.

Tickets for travel on the crossw-channel rail line will be on sale from £59 return for 12 days between November 13 and 24.

Shares in Portugal Telecom have risen on news on Sunday night that the Angolan President’s daughter, Isabel dos Santos, has launched a formal bid for the company.

Isabel dos Santos has offered €1.35 a share for PT which currently is controlled by Oi, the Brazilian telecoms group which want to sell its stake to pay off some of its USD18 billion debt pile and concentrate on developing its business in its home market.

The computer services company owned by the Algarve’s councils, business associations and banks finally has reached the end.

Globalgarve's main project was to create a digital network to link the Algarve's councils together. This cost €9 million and Globalgarve, the company that managed the system, has gone bust despite a capitve audience of customers.