UK small caps rise 0.5 percent, outperforming a flat AIM share index, but lagging the mid-caps and the blue chips, up 1.5percent and 1.2 percent, respectively.
Solo Oil rallies 22 percent after the oil explorer receives anappraisal licence in Tanzania as part of the onshore Ruvuma psa gas project.
Shares in blur Group rise 13.1 percent ahead of the e-commercegroup's second-quarter metrics update on Tuesday.
Local Shopping real estate investment trust falls 15 percent afterannouncing it will liquidate its assets, repay its debt and return the remainingcapital to shareholders due to a fall in regional property values.
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