MELTDOWN STORIES

An eight-year-old British girl has been taken into care by Portuguese authorities after her mother reportedly left her alone to go out drinking while on vacation in Portugal.

In Spain, a father booted his two 11-year-old twin sons out of the car in which they were travelling in the very early hours of the morning and left them on the roadside, in the Algarve, nearly 300 kilometres away from their home.