The FTSE Small Caps Index is up 0.6 percent in mid-session trading,outpacing a 0.1 percent fall on the blue-chip FTSE 100 and a 0.3 percentrise on the FTSE 250 mid-cap index.
The FTSE AIM All Share Index is up by 0.4 percent.
Latchways, which designs and manufactures safety systems, rises 2.2percent after posting record full-year profits and revenues.
"We see good value in the shares at current levels," analysts at N+1 Singersay.
Online dating company Cupid rises 2.5 percent after stating thathedge fund Toscafund Asset Management LLP now has a stake of more than 10.3percent in the company.
Department stores operator Beale falls 5.6 percent after announcingthe retirement of chairman Keith Edelman.
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