Emigration figures reveal 285,000 Portuguese have left the country for good in the last four years: a further concern is that immigration has decreased.
Portugal’s Centre for Emigration reported today that "Over the past four years, the number of people who have left Portugal grew by over 50%. Only in 2013 at least 110,000 Portuguese emigrated. You have to go back to 1973 to find numbers like these."
Expat pensions again are under threat as anyone who has missed a deadline to prove they are alive may have had their pension stopped.
But the government has not demonstrated that the programme has saved the promised millions.
A key part of the Banco Privado Português case is over with a judges' decision that has shocked many of Lisbon’s financial community: João Rendeiro, Paulo Guichard and Salvador Fezas Vital all have been acquitted.
Rendeiro’s statement issued today read, "This decision proves that justice is done in the courts and not in the media."
Chunks of gold have gone on sale in the UK. The Royal Mint is making fractions of gold bars available to the public for as little as £20.
It is the first time that the Mint has made gold available by price rather than fixed weight which will grant entree to more individual investors.
This afternoon, aggrieved BES customers who have lost their money in Ricardo Salgado's commercial paper scam tried to push over the crowd control barriers set up by the police in front of PM Pedro Passos Coelho’s official residence.
BES protestors first went to Novo Banco’s office in Avenida da Liberdade, the the Socialsist Party headquarters in Rato and then to the prime minister’s official residence in São Bento.
The silting up of the Ria Formosa has been blamed for an accident next to the Fuzeta sand bar.
A sightseeing pleasure boat with six people on board was swamped by a wave and had to be abandoned.
An American airline is experimenting with pre-loading luggage in the cabin to see if they will make boarding quicker and easier.
Delta Airlines has set up an Early Valet service on some two dozen busy routes, such as New York, Atlanta and Seattle.
Two employees at the wind farm at Raposeira, Vila do Bispo have been seriously injured after an ‘electrical discharge,’ according to the GNR command in Faro.
The men are in critical condition and have suffered serious burns.
