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Members of the management team at Goals Soccer Centres considered today's trading update an opportunity to buy - over £200,000 of shares in total. The five-a-side football pitch operator said trading has been resilient, though the recent snowfall means the company is unlikely to meet its 2010 profi
Read moreYorkshire Post publisher Johnston Press expects full year results to be 'satisfactory' as it offsets a worse than expected decline in ad revenues with increased cost savings. The group, which also publishes the Scotsman, said total advertising in the second half of the year to date on a like-for-li
Read moreCarphone Warehouse founder and chairman Charles Dunstone has raised £35.4m from a share disposal. Dunstone sold 15m shares at 236p each. That still leaves him with nearly 133.1m shares, or 29.12% of the company. Dunstone founded Carphone Warehouse in 1989. In those days it was purely a mobile ph
Read moreLONDON (Dow Jones)--Daily Mail & General Trust PLC (DMGT.LN) has drawn up detailed plans to jettison its local newspaper arm, Northcliffe, owner of the Leicester Mercury and Bristol Evening Post, U.K. newspaper The Times reported Sunday. Talks have been held to offload Northcliffe into Johnston
Read more0956 GMT [Dow Jones] Next week's UK budget could mark the end of the outperformance of mid and small-cap stocks, due to their generally higher exposure to government contracts, says Deutsche Bank. Suggests the IT services sector, newspapers, defense stocks and housebuilders could continue to struggl
Read moreLondon's top stocks rallied near the close to finish well up on the day as traders speculated on possible measures to cut the UK's debt burden. A VAT rise to 20% is a likely measure according to a group of economists questioned by the BBC. Justin King, chief executive of supermarket Sainsbury's,
Read moreJohnston Press suffered from 'subdued' advertising spending in the run-up to the general election, but the regional newspaper publisher has continued cutting costs and expects to deliver full-year results in line with expectations. Advertising revenues in the 18 weeks to May 18 fell by 7.1% on a li
Read moreMillions of passengers will be hit by the first national rail strike for 16 years when workers begin a four-day walkout immediately after Easter. Signallers, maintenance workers and supervisors will strike from April 6 in a row over job losses and changes to working practices unless a last-minute d
Read moreDeparting chairman Kevin Beeston has sold nearly all his remaining shares in outsourcing group Serco. Alastair Lyons will take up the chairmanship of the company after the Annual General Meeting on 11 May. Lyons has been non-executive chairman of Admiral Group since 2000. Beeston's departure mark
Read moreLondon bounced off 5,600 despite a weak start on Wall Street but still closed in the red on a poor day for miners. Falling commodity prices and China inflation concerns prompted profit taking in Fresnillo, Randgold, Rio Tinto, ENRC, Kazakhmys, BHP Billiton and Xstrata. Speculation rose that Chin
Read moreA steady decline continued through lunch, but London bounced off 5,600 despite a weak start on Wall Street as mining sector losses narrowed very slightly. Falling commodity prices have damaged miners Thursday. Investors decided to take profits in Fresnillo, Randgold, Rio Tinto, ENRC, Kazakhmys, BHP
Read moreThe Footsie has drifted into the red, weighed down by the weakness of mining stocks. Among the miners Fresnillo, Randgold Resources, Rio Tinto, ENRC, Kazakhmys, BHP Billiton and Xstrata are all on offer, as metals prices retreat. Smith & Nephew is under the weather after coming out on the wrong
Read moreLondon's main index is being dragged lower by mining stocks, though Old Mutual is the weakest link among the blue chips after it published full-year results this morning. South African insurer Old Mutual has resumed dividend payments following a better second half and is exploring the sale of US Li
Read moreIt looks like being a gloomy start to trade in London after last night's flat finish on Wall Street, wit stocks pulling back from yesterday's new 18-month high. Futures prices indicate an early 17-point drop for the FTSE 100. In company news, oil giant BP has beefed up its exploration operations w
Read moreRegional newspaper publisher Johnston Press revealed a sharp decline in full year operating profit but said pressure on advertising revenues had started to ease. The group, which publishes the Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, said operating profit fell to £71.8m for the 53 weeks ended 2 January 201
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