The FTSE AIM All Share Index is up by 0.5 percent inmid-session trade, outperforming a flat FTSE 100 blue-chip index and a 0.2 percent dip on the FTSE 250 mid-capindex.
The broader FTSE Small Caps Index slips 0.1 percent.
Clear Leisure, a company whose leisure industryassets include an Italian sushi restaurant and a water themepark, rises 5.7 percent after it manages to recover from a lossin 2012 to post half-year profits.
Specialist engineering and manufacturing company TanfieldGroup falls 15.6 percent after announcing the sale ofits Snorkel unit, which makes aerial lifts.
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