James Harkin

Would you believe that?

It's amazing.

The energy required to produce a laminated wooden beam is one sixth of what would be used for a steel beam.

It is in a way, yeah.

Oh,

Said no more about it?

Do you think God was upset that he'd sold it and that's why God burns it down?

What is this story?

Okay, my fact this week is Spain is spinning.

How?

How indeed.

Well, it is all down to plate tectonics, continental drift.

And a lot of other boring stuff you learned at school.

But this is something that's been found out by a researcher at the University of the Basque Country called Asia Mandarieta.

And basically, they just put a load of GPS stations all over the country and looked at all the data that came out of it.

And when Asia looked at all the data, he found that...

The European and Asian plates, so the continents are on these plates, they're moving closer to each other all the time, but while they're doing it, the Spanish part of it is very slightly rotating.

Good question.

No, it's not spinning in that way.

It's not spinning so that the bottom of Spain will be on the top soon.