"Within all those pictures, I came across these two little blue boxes, " she recalled.

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Even outside of these two banking blue chips, there will be plenty of other opportunities to make money on Spanish banks in the year ahead.

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Many of these workers were in blue-collar industrial jobs - the very jobs that disappeared over the next two decades as British industry shrank.

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Two companies in town offers tours in search of these peaceful creatures, spying minke whales, humpback whales and sometimes blue whales.

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