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Located at the eastern end of the prolific Iberian Pyrite Belt in the province of Seville, Spain, Cobre Las Cruces (CLC) is a highly innovative open pit mine and the first industrial installation of its kind to operate within Europe.

Providing direct employment to 800 employees, as well as generating approximately 1,500 indirect jobs, CLC represents a major €840 million industrial investment into an area that also spans the Spanish provinces of Badajoz and Huelva, and extends through the south of Portugal.

The Swedish firm, famed for its flat-pack furniture and huge warehouse-like stores, announced a rise in global sales of 3.1 percent to 27.9 billion euros for the year, with like-for-like sales rising 1.8 percent during that period.

The company pinpointed Russia and China as the sources of some of its strongest growth, while also insisting that significant progress continues to be made in the US as well.

At the time when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter carried out the first wireless telephone conversation in 1880, even their great minds probably couldn’t have envisioned how significant a part this technology would go on to play more than 120 years later. Today, barely a week goes by before a new wireless device is brought to market and the spread of the technology in developing countries has come to be one of the tell-tale signs of economic strength.

Established in November 1944, with the construction of the Compostilla thermal plan in Ponferrada, in the province of Leon in Spain, Endesa is today one of the largest electric power companies in the world. As well as being Spain’s largest utility company, it is also the leading private multinational enterprise in Latin America and a major player in the gas sector.

Following the unexpectedly strong support Mrs Merkel has received from the German electorate the next question will be: how will she now navigate the complex negotiations in a way that will safeguard her interests? It is thought she may seek a ‘grand coalition’ with the Social Democrats (SPD), which won approximately 26 percent of Sunday’s vote, however she is not making her mind up just yet. Addressing a rally at CDU headquarters, she told her supporters “This is a splendid result: We can celebrate tonight because we have done something fantastic.

The two fields have produced a combined total of nearly 400 million barrels of oil since 1998, however fresh estimates suggest that there are a further 450 million barrels still available, much more than originally thought.

Since 2012, a number of companies of all shapes and sizes based in Aberdeen, Shetland, Fife and other UK locations have benefitted from the contracts that have been awarded.

The on-going £3 billion upgrade of the fields is aimed at extending production to 2035 and beyond.

Truly a natural wonder of our planet, the Swiss Alps have been attracting tourists from across the world since long before the construction of the first hotels and mountain huts in the mid eighteenth century. This continues to this day with the Alpine area as a whole attracting some 100 million visitors each year.