UK small caps and junior-listed AIM shares fall 0.4 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively, in line with a0.5 percent decline in the blue-chip FTSE 100 index.
Pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond slumps 50 percent aftersaying efforts to agree a cash injection from its biggestshareholder had failed and it was now in talks with its banks onoptions to remedy potential covenant breaches.
Griffin Mining rises 4.7 percent after the companyissues a resource update saying a significant portion of themineral resource is now confirmed in the higher measured andindicated categories and this material will underpin miningoperations for many years to come.
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