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Up till now my biggest problem has been dyslexia but now I've just read that I've got racoon virus

Drop by around 51p (plus whatever the final div is) is the obvious answer!. However 51p just seems too good to be true and we know what that usually means. Perhaps they will stagger the payments.

Maths was never my strong point but if the special dividend is to total 5 billion and there are 9.79 billion shares in circulation this would mean the special would be around 51pence for each share held.

According to the Hargreaves Lansdowne site it goes ex div on 16th April with a 2.25p payment of final dividend on 27th May.

Well phase 1 up to Birmingham has been put back until 2028 to 2031 before the first (First?) trains will be running and phase 2 from West Midlands to Leeds/Manchester is 2035 to 2040. So it could be another 7 years before any dividends are forthcoming making 14 years in total.

The interim is actually 2.65p...every little helps and is actually a 58.7% increase. The interim is around one third of what the final should be so expect around 5p+

Thinking that British Gas would be quiet at this time of year, two days ago I phoned them up (Cardiff call centre) to arrange a service of my boiler. I have been a BG customer for over 40 years and thought that perhaps they would be able to do it next week. But no, the first appointment they could offer me was Monday 19th August, so around about a 7 week wait. Also I had to pay for it straight away. One wonders how they would cope it they hadn't already haemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of customers.

Hold them in certificated form?....that way there would be no ongoing cost.

I've looked as well and couldn't find anything about a special dividend either.

I believe that it's on Tuesday 30th April 2019.

It probably was £5.25 in October 2008 after the crash from a high of around £70 when at one point RBS was the biggest bank in the world. There was a share consolidation back in June 2012 whereby you got one new share for every 10 previously owned

I would suggest that a lot of the drop has to do with the dividend being slashed from 4.5p a quarter to 1.5p

So @ £50 a pop a further £2 billion would buy 40 million shares leaving roughly 140 million. My question is where do these 40 million shares come from?.....will we be approached directly?

It would seem that there isn't going to be one. Instead it would appear that Whitbread will be buying some or all of our shares if we want to sell, presumably at some sort of enhanced price. I may have got the wrong end of the stick and stand to be corrected but a figure of "up to 2.5 billion" was mentioned.

Bought int this share on its recent drop. Does anyone know if they plan on paying a dividend any time soon?.

The info to be given on 7th Feb is just a "Trading Announcement" and not results per se.

I just heard on the TV that the offer has been raised to £2.8 million.

I think I read somewhere that the next results are due out on 7th February.

Especially since it has gone ex dividend today.

If the company is taken over does anyone have a view as to what will happen to us, the long-suffering shareholder?.