Spain is likely to rescind its policy on dubbing foreign TV programmes in favour of subtitles.

The objective is to boost the nation’s proficiency in languages, most notably English.

The anti-toll protestors are revisiting the Guadiana Bridge on December 8th to meet up with their equally vociferous Spanish counterparts.

The protest next Tuesday at 10 am is to mark four years of tolls on the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway and has been organised by CUVI, the anti-tolls group that has local Left Bloc MP João Vasconcelos as its figurehead.

A new parliamentary committee for health has agreed to pay an urgent visit to the Algarve due to the poor situation of the region’s medical services.

"Hospital services in the Algarve are dire. Obviously we need to look as a top priority at the Hospitals of the Algarve where, despite the service delivery and professional pride of doctors and nurses, various services and specialties in Faro, Portimão and Lagos simply are not functioning," said MP Luís Graça, speaking for the Socialist MPs representing the Algarve region; António Eusébio, Fernando Anastácio and Ana Passos.

Citizens of Finland may soon be receiving €800 tax-free every month from the government.

This national basic income would replace all other benefits and would be paid to adults whether or not they have any other income.

A farmer has been found with his head smashed in on the flat land between Lagoa and Sesmarias in the Algarve.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the violent death on common grazing land at Canadá, 2 kilometres south of Lagoa, and the immediate area has been sealed off all day while a forsenic team logged the site and looked for clues.

The influential Financial Times newspaper has listed its journalists' best and worst travel destinations for 2015.

Vila do Bispo’s Castelejo is "the perfect beach" for the Pink Un’s cadre of travel journalists.

Greece has managed to agree a budget for 2016 by a margin of 8 votes.

With no end to austerity, the budget includes large spending cuts, pension and tax reforms and the perennial category, tax increases.

Portugal’s union of journalists has lodged a complaint at the Regulatory Authority for the Media about the closure and resurrection of newspapers Sol and i, which lost €4.4 million and €3.8 million last year, respectively.

Around 100 jobs are to go at the two titles, controlled by Angolan businessman and former BES Angola chief Dr Álvaro Sobrinho, who aims to close the businesses and re-employ selected staff to run two new publications called, coincidentally, Sol and i.