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Indeed, but in true MERC tradition of the last 5 years let us hope HMS Duke of York is not just out of Zeiss sights, on the horizon ?
Although the current one will probably be "manned" by under age females....

Do8erman
Intersting points you make, especially how the 40p level seems to show resistance, something I've noticed myself & interested in.
WRT being misquoted by charger, I fear this is a peril of the board for all of us, he assures us he is still in profit but his post on Sep 9, when he was showing us all the size of his cojones, clearly states that his larger holding cost 41.994p and a smaller holding at just below that.
Happily no other poster bothered to join in this peculiar game but it might explain how these specific price predictions are arrived at.

Thanks for the Scot Gov link but if you look under the heading in it, "central belt area", it is exactly as I said was, & still is, on BBC site.
However, as I said before, with only 22 (from MARS website) premises we have dodged the bullet on this one.
Nevertheless a post is worth nothing if it is inaccurate & incidentally the Central belt in Scotland has both a west & an East side.
Am very happy to converse on MARS but why must you always drift off the subject ?
Stick to Marstons & please try to be accurate. We use this board so we can all swap views, which need accurate facts.

Indeed, very droll....

I took my information from the BBC website which clearly states "ALL pubs & restaurants in the central area are to be closed" goes on to say which places are affected & then"pubs & restaurants in other areas can stay open but can only serve alcohol outside".
As the Central area includes Glasgow & Edinburgh, unless the beeb is wrong (not for the first time) no pubs or restaurants are open. The D Telegraph says the same/
Where did your information come from ?

Apologies for the double posting, a fat finger I fear !

Indeed, I am also encouraged, if not relieved, to see it even a tad firmer. TBH I always expected good news to come from their bio science/medical interests rather than WA. Still beggars can't be choosers...

Indeed, I am also encouraged, if not relieved, to see it even a tadfirmer. TBH I always expected good news to come from their bio science/medical interests rather than WA. Still beggars can't be choosers...

Problem is that where the restrictions apply includes Glasgow & affects 3.4 million people.
Not sure about you but I can't see many Glaswegians going in for a bottle of Evian water, but as I said yesterday we apparently only have 22 premises in all of Scotland so it is a dodged bullet at present.
The fear is whether our esteemed masters in Westminster decide to follow suit in Manchester, for instance.
I honestly doubt there is very much margin in supermarket sales compared to wet pubs so we have to hope the worst will not happen in parts of UK where Mars has a good presence.
SP still testing 40p as a support level, interesting to see what develops now.

Boards
With the promising rns out today re one of their first investments, Warwick Acoustics, I think we read this one about right ?
Rick could be busy tonight....

D Telegraph is running a speculative story this afternoon to the effect that Sturgeon is to make an announcement Wednesday pm to tighten restrictions and likely close pubs.
The good news is that Marston's website shows they only have 22 premises in Scotland, so little effect there.
Unsure how active they are in sales from their breweries north of the border but my gut is not very, so that is hopefully a bullet we dodge.

@roll
They certainly have been firm this week, your hunch could well be right, I hope so !

@Kahuna
I am also keen to converse re MARS, I recall you posted recently about how bad trade was for pubs in the square mile.
The only MARS property there which I am aware of is Pitcher Piano Cornhill, which is a great location and nicely furnished but always, I felt, let down by its food offer. However I see that between now and next Thursday they have 3 "special nights", 2 are speed dating evenings and the other is a "paint London" night. Also they are now rather optimistically offering food via deliveroo. Now I am delighted to see a pro active stance by management in trying to put bums on seats, but 3 special nights in the next 6 is probably indicative of just how bad trade actually is at present.
I fully realise the P&P's are not the typical Marstons boozer but they were up for sale last year in the debt reduction attempt and failed to achieve an acceptable price. If trade is this poor what is their value now I wonder, WFH seems to have hit city centres more than we suspected it would.

@Fairdealer
This was a great single by the Stones but we are here to discuss Marstons, not Mick, and our rather erratic & probably disturbed midnight rambles by Tesla man are possibly induced by excess consumption after curfew ?
Sadly it seems he is incapable of sensible discourse, nor keeping to the subject and the constant carpings re Royal Dutch Shell are a good example. I am sure there are others on this board that are also wanting sensible discussion, not recycled fake facts and hearing about his "exclusive" access to info from Wolverhampton HQ ?
Hopefully he is filling his Tesla boot with cheap shares today to keep the price up for us all ?

@yoyoma
You play a fine tune on that Cello !
This is slightly later in October than the last few years and as the lady said it likely would be delayed due to CMA this year so no "inside knowledge" was needed, as you rightly point out.
@ Fairdealer
An astute response to the predicted 80p SP.
I am awaiting the first one to forecast triple figures, it can't be too long as the permabulls can never await the declared figures they always seem to know everything in advance....

Trading update to 3 October due out on 21 October according to rns.
A date for our diaries !

Robina
So far you are bang on

Boards
Seen todays RNS ?
Strange how cynicism is often so accurate is it not ?
Looks like Rick Stein is busy today.....

Indeed, a good job I dipped my toe in again almost 2 weeks ago.
As ever, should have bought more.....

Investing
I did post earlier this month that in 2018 they gave a trading update on 10 Oct & in 2019 the date was 15 Oct.
In their investors calendar they just say October, no date given. Clearly with CMA & the JV they probably have good reason not to commit to a firm date, hopefully those past dates may give an indication ?