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...companies like phone-giant Telefónica, construction and infrastructure consortium Grupo Ferrovial, real estate developer Metrovacesa and financial conglomerate Santander Group have become Continent-wide - and even global - players. Last week Ferrovial concluded a €15 billion takeover bid for BAA, the company that runs Heathrow, Stansted and Gatwick airports. But Holguera, whose principal job is managing coherent expansion for his changing hometown, is among the growing number of people worried that Spain's impressive growth depends too much on one churning mammoth: the construction industry. That sector accounts for more than 16% of Spain's economic output, roughly...
...Radisson Sas Stansted With Heathrow and Gatwick operating at near capacity, more London-bound flights are opting for Stansted, home to the Radisson SAS, tel: (44-12) 7966 1012. Rooms come in three funky styles ("Chili," "Ocean" or "Urban") and the hotel's four restaurants surround a unique 12-m "wine tower" holding 4,000 bottles...
...main airport and boasts 523 rooms and suites, furnished with goose-down duvets and flat-screen TVs. Its restaurant, 8, offers (you guessed it) eight different culinary styles. Other leisure options include a casino and the stylish pool at the Club Olympus spa. RADISSON SAS STANSTED With Heathrow and Gatwick operating at near capacity, more London-bound flights are opting for Stansted, home to the Radisson SAS, tel: (44-12) 7966 1012. Rooms come in three funky styles (Chili, Ocean or Urban) and the hotel's four restaurants surround a unique 12-m "wine tower" holding 4,000 bottles. REGAL...
...terminal stores various grades of petroleum-based fuel for cars and airplanes, and is used by a variety of oil companies. It normally loads about 400 tanker trunks a day, and has pipelines connecting to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Though the terminal is the country?s fifth largest, no serious disruption to gasoline supplies is expected as emergency plans to draw from other depots kick in. Fire chiefs said they had extinguished a fire at a nearby warehouse caused by the explosion, but were waiting to assemble enough equipment and foam from nearby districts before tackling the main blaze-which...
...well as locals. In the prewar years, Dubrovnik was known to the European cognoscenti as a low-cost alternative to the ritzy Riviera. Now its charms are fast becoming an open secret. Flights arrive almost daily from Madrid, Paris, Rome and Vienna, together with budget services from Bratislava, London Gatwick and Dublin. In all, more than 320,000 foreigners holidayed in Dubrovnik (pop. 37,000) last year, up from 250,000 in 2002. "Dubrovnik is a jewel," says Ed Serotta, a Vienna-based historian and frequent visitor. He recommends a stroll on the 11/4-mile medieval wall encircling the city...