Sept 6 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 futures were down 0.1 percentahead of the cash market open on Thursday.
* DIXONS CARPHONE: Dixons Carphone, the troubled British electricalsand mobile phone retailer, said underlying revenue remained flat in the 13 weeksto July 28, as expected, and reiterated its full-year profittargets.
* JUST GROUP: British pensions provider Just Group Plc beatexpectations with an 85 percent jump in first-half adjusted operating profit onThursday but said it was delaying issuing a dividend due to the threat to itsfinances from proposed changes around lifetime mortgages.
* MELROSE: Turnaround specialist Melrose Industries said onThursday it had made significant progress in reorganising engineering group GKNsince its hostile 8-billion-pound takeover this year, while giving no details ofplans to break up the company.
* BURBERRY: British luxury brand Burberry said it would no longerburn millions of pounds worth of unsold goods or use real fur in its collectionsafter an uproar over its environmental credentials.
* MCCARTHY & STONE: Britain's biggest builder of homes for retirees,McCarthy & Stone, trimmed its full-year profit forecast on Thursday,months after issuing a profit warning citing cautious consumer spending andeconomic uncertainty.
* PHAUNOS TIMBER FUND: CatchMark Timber Trust Inc, a real estatecompany investing in timberlands, said it was evaluating to buy closed-endedinvestment company Phaunos Timber Fund Ltd at $0.57 pershare.
* BRITAIN-ENERGY: Britain's energy regulator proposed on Thursday a pricecap on default dual fuel energy bills of 1,136 pounds ($1,465) a year, savinghouseholds between 75 and 120 pounds a year.
* GSK: British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Wednesday itwould cut about 650 positions in the United States related to a globalrestructuring program it announced in July.
* CAPITA: British outsourcer Capita has named Ismail Amla, amanaging partner at IBM's Global Services division in North America, tothe new role of chief growth officer, Sky News reported on Wednesday. http://bit.ly/2wNQxlI
* THOMAS COOK: British tour operator Thomas Cook said it had found ahigh level of e-coli and staphylococcus bacteria at the hotel in Egypt where twoholidaymakers died last month.
* LLOYDS: Lloyds Banking Group has cut 380 jobs as part of are-organisation that will also see it create 435 new roles, the bank said onWednesday, as it gears up to better compete in a market increasingly builtaround online and mobile services.
* OPHIR ENERGY: Ophir Energy is "cautiously optimistic" it willmeet a looming deadline for a final investment decision and save its stalledFortuna FLNG project in Equatorial Guinea, a senior official said on Thursday.
* RYANAIR: Ryanair is set to scrap plans to reduce its fleet inIreland after pilots there unanimously backed a deal negotiated by their tradeunion that provided a breakthrough in the airline's efforts to quell staffprotests.
* BP: The planned merger of Poland's two largest refiners PKN Orlenand Grupa Lotos could restrict competition in the east Europeancountry, BP BP.L said in a statement on Wednesday.
* EX-DIVS: Admiral Group, Antofagasta, BHP Billiton, CRH, Glencore, Land Securities Group, RSAInsurance Group, Shire will trade without entitlement to theirlatest dividend pay-out on Thursday, trimming 9.24 points off the FTSE 100according to Reuters calculations
* The UK blue chip index closed down 1 percent at 7,383.28 points onWednesday, as big oil stocks fell, though housebuilders were a bright spotfollowing comments from Berkeley Group about the London housing market.
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