With the scent of oil hanging heavy in the atmosphere, a judge in Argentina has ordered that assets be seized from five foreign firms drilling near the Falkland Islands (pictured).
Lilian Herraez, a federal judge in Tierra del Fuego, ordered the seizure of $156 million, boats and other property, as reported by Argentina's state news agency Telam. She said the companies did not have the required permissions from Buenos Aires in order to explore.
The Food Safety Authority has seized 1,070 litres of adulterated olive oil being sold in Portugal as high priced 'extra virgin.'
The Golden Oil operation aimed to stop the production and marketing of the adulterated oil and was triggered by a discovery at a Faro distributor whose olive oil stock was nothing of the sort.
As if struggling Italy did not enough to deal with considering its daily influx of desperate refugees, now the out-of-touch EU would like it to switch to powdered milk to make mozzarella cheese.
Fresh milk from domestic water buffalo is the traditional ingredient.
The poorly thought out seizure of goods identified by ‘goods in transit’ documents continues to amuse and baffle in equal measure as a lunch delivery from a restaurant to a business customer has been targeted by the taxman.
A corporate lunch of 'breaded prawns with orange sauce, green salad, cod gratin with spinach and cheesecake with red fruit coulis, plus complimentary bread rolls' has been listed by the taxman, along with the waiter as there was a ‘delivery charge within the Lisbon area.’
Lagos council has decided to dissolve the municipal company Futurlagos and adsorb its workers into the council’s existing workforce.
The remaining municipal company Lagos-em-Forma will remain primarily to run the council’s car parks.
The normal business of the Municipal Assembly of Vila Real de Santo António last night had to be postponed until after the weekend due to the number of locals who turned up to protest against the city’s new parking meter scheme.
The meeting, which was scheduled to start at 21:30 was delayed for 15 minutes to see if the angry crowd would calm down, which it did not.
The residents said the cat that was burned in a container at the top of a flaming pole was only singed. This latest example of Portugal’s attitude to animal welfare was claimed by locals to be ‘traditional.’
The GNR has opened an investigation in Mourão concerning a filmed incident at which a crowd of onlookers stood watching flames rise up a pole until a container in which a cat was held crashed to the ground in a burst of sparks, releasing the animal which they ran around in circles.
The director of Spain’s Alhambra palace is under investigation for alleged embezzlement of public funds.
Along with Maria del Mar Villafranca are four other members of the board of trustees.
