Tragic appeal for British PC paralysed on holiday in Lisbon
A holiday tragedy has seen a British policeman fighting for his life in hospital in Lisbon, apparently paralysed from the waist down. Luke Stanwick, 30, is understood to have broken
Gonçalo Amaral ordered to pay parents of Madeleine McCann €500,000 in damages
In a court ruling that has left many in states of total disbelief, former PJ detective Gonçalo Amaral has been ordered to pay €500,000 in damages to the parents of
Children who lost mother in Setúbal hospital blunder wait 31 years for compensation
They lost their mother due to a horrific medical blunder made by a nurse at Setúbal hospital in 1984 and yet they had to wait 31 years for compensation. The
Passenger leaving Lisbon airport “steals fortune” from Duty Free
In an incidence of airline terminal “lifting”, a female passenger is understood to have wiled away her time waiting for a flight from Lisbon airport by stealing a fortune in
Justice Minister and Attorney General clash over priorities
Justice minister Paula Teixeira da Cruz has clashed with Attorney General Marques Vidal over priorities for criminal investigation in Portugal. While the government wants terrorism to be the number one
EU to “examine carefully” Portugal’s early-bird bid to repay IMF
As Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has announced he will be teaming up with his CDS-PP coalition partners yet again to fight upcoming elections, he also revealed that the government
Twelve-year-old raped by stepfather barred from seeking abortion
A 12-year-old raped by her stepfather and made pregnant is too far advanced in her pregnancy to be legally entitled to an abortion. Lawyer Nuno Godinho de Matos explained the
Eleven deaths per day from colorectal cancer
As the death toll in Portugal from colorectal cancer reaches almost epidemic proportions, a young researcher has received a €93,000 grant from a US association to try and find an
Portugal exports cats and dogs to Korea and the Philippines
Under new legislation, “cats and dogs from Portugal can now enter countries like Nigeria, Angola, Colombia, Peru, Jordan, Libya, Ukraine, South Korea and the Philippines” while China, for the time
Portugal’s “rapidly increasing” private business debt is a “time-bomb”
“The problem is serious. It’s a time-bomb,” writes financial news portal Dinheiro Vivo. What it is referring to is the increasing level of debt among Portuguese private business. At last