People in Spain have increasingly turned to smoking cannabis, particularly in private clubs where it is allowed if not encouraged.
The popularity of such clubs has helped drive up cannabis use to the point where Spain now is believed to have the highest consumption of any country after Iceland and the US. It overtook the Netherlands to gain third position.
Drought in Poland has had at least the benefit of uncovering a number of artefacts, including Jewish tombstones and a wartime fighter plane.
Rivers have reduced to record lows, with the Vistula at its lowest level since 1789.
The Minister of Agriculture said today that state support to those fishermen who decide against putting out to sea because of the sardine fishing ban are set at the maximum level allowed by EU regulations.
The sardine ban has been put in place due to dwindling stocks which need to be preserved to breed and produce more sardines for next year.
A study by TGI Marktest concluded that 50.5% of the Portuguese admitted to having been to a fast food outlet at least once in the past two months.
This equates to more than 4.3 million Portuguese resorting to a fast food restaurant, and the majority of respondents who answered ‘yes’ unsurprisingly are at the younger end of the scale.
Deco warns that buying used tyres is more expensive, certainly more dangerous and ends up costing the driver more in the long run.
The consumer protection association analysed 89 used tyres and concluded that most had serious flaws.
Internationally respected banking chief António Horta Osório was back in Portugal last night giving some advice about debt control, reviewing Portugal's reforms and looking at how to increase the population's standard of living.
The chairman of Lloyds Bank said that Portugal must continue to implement structural reforms to enable the economy to grow "over time" and emphasised that Portugal must continue to control its debt.
If the money from income tax and VAT receipts continues to grow at the rate registered to July this year, the government estimates that taxpayers can expect a decrease in 2016 of the income tax surcharge from the current 3.5% to 2.6%.
The rise in taxes received by the treasury can be viewed against a background of evasion and delayed payments with over 30% of taxed due, remaining unpaid.
British firms caught employing migrants without proper documents could be shut down for 48 hours.
The provision is to be included in a new immigration bill which will accompany a change in the law to make it easier to prosecute companies which knowingly hire unauthorised workers.
