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Get 15% off all your Valentines choccies up to 8th Feb by using the promo code 'VREM' at the checkout. ATB.

How right you are...."at the end of the day the share price is what it is not what I think"....If some of my shares were where i think they should be i'd be a far richer man!!! ATB.

Would query the comment from Singer Capital which "expects the group to cut its final dividend to 2.6p". CPR did NOT pay a final div last Sept, nor will it be paying an interim this month!! I would be more than happy to see the div re-instated at 2.6p (previously 16p for the year), but can't see that happening in the current climate. ATB.

No profit taking for me i'm in for the long term. I'm a collector not a trader. Once a share gets into my portfolio it's there for good. The only way out is to be taken over, otherwise it's there until i eventually need it for care home fees or to leave to the kids when i'm long gone. Inhereited these when they took over Evolution. And inherited Evo when they took over Beeson Gregory which was my initail purchase back in the 80's or 90's!! Over the years the weak have fallen by the wayside and the rest have just gone from strength to strength, it's amazing how holdings grow when divs are taken as new shares. Not a strategy that you would endorse i'm sure but it has worked for me as i've never been bothered, or able, to keep up with the markets on a daily or hourly basis to enable me to trade regularly. My portfolio is currently standing at an all time high, with BP recovering post spill, BT doing well, and my banker Arsenal going through the roof with Usmanov continuing to buy - they're currently trading at £15,625 per share!!!! The stick i took from my then girlfriend back in the 80's when i invested a then rather large sum is not printable. However she is now my wife and wishes i had invested twice as much!!! Though at that price we attract CGT with the sale of even one share, so as i have a natural aversion to paying tax of any type, i transfer them around the family and we only get to each sell one a year. You seem to inhabit and post news on most of the boards that i frequent, which i always find useful - very occasionaly i even beat you to it!! Keep up the good work. ATB.

Apologies. Just realised when i wrote my last post the spread was 0.5p and 1%, although greater now. But they can look very misleading after hours. ATB.

Obviously three weeks on the answer to my previous question was "very soon". Now how about £4.50?? ATB.

Be wary of what the spread looks like after hours on this site. It is very often way out as i've noticed on quite a few shares in the past, especially those with low sp's. Now the market is open the spread is 0.5%. ATB.

I took up my full entitlement and a few extra in the RI so well pleased with the current sp. Think we'd need the FTSE to test 5000 to see this back in the 5's, and don't think the end of the +8% div growth will have a detrimental effect on the sp. Still in THT, my tiny holding makes selling a non starter so have filed them in the folder marked "need a miracle" and i certainly won't be buying any more!! ATB.

Thought the results were better than most people were expecting. Group sales down 3.8%, UK like-for-like only down 0.5%, Rest of Europe UP 1.1% after allowing for the movement in exchange rates. Underlying pre-tax profits for the full year to be slightly below the lower end of the current range of market expectations, with net debt to be significantly down on the previous year, at around £43m. It would appear from todays near 10% rise that the markets have also looked favourably on the results. It's tough out there for retailers in general, look at the number who have already gone bust this year along with those that are only barely staying afloat with help from the banks, but CPR have a plan, are profitable and are reducing debt. ATB.

My suggestion of a 4-5p div was if the sp was around the £1 level, no way would they pay a 10% div at today's price. TNI are benefitting currently from the demise of the NOTW, but how long before there's a replacement from News Corp? As i'm a (very) long term holder here of course i would love to see it higher, but i just don't think it will happen. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree for a while on this one. ATB.

On the main Sky page scroll down to the bottom and look for 'Sky Corporate'. Then go to 'Investors' and then 'Latest Results. Buried on P12 of the six month results to 31/12 you will see that the next div of 9.2p is to be paid on 24/4, and it goes ex-div on 28/3. ATB.

The Viennese Truffles are definitely my favourite, will have to treat myself to some when next passing a store. Haven't had any calls re fine wine' for a while, just as well 'cos the only wine the misses is interested in is the type she can drink as soon as she gets it home!! Most of the scams i seem to get these days are wanting me to buy 'carbon futures' but it does make a change from 'land banking'. The last call i had from one of them was trying to sell me an interest in a dis-used airfield, only problem was it was just down the road from me and i knew more about its planning history than he did!! Needless to say his 'manager' didn't call me back. You've got to laugh, haven't you!! ATB.

Just re-read your last post and of course you meant 82.40p and not £82.40 lol!!! DOH ATB.

Presume it was a typo and that you didn't really pay 82.40 for HMV lol!! As for the planning issue it is to do with the fact that the single storey extension that was built in 1983 is larger than currently allowed under 'Permitted Development Rights' so have to obey the rules. Though have been told than it will be a formality, and that i can get the work done before i receive it. It's annoying that i have to go through the expense of the process, but i suppose it helps to keep a local official with their gold-plated pension in a job!!! Unless you are leaving investing or LSE for good then i'm sure our paths will cross again in the future as at some point you are almost certain to buy into one of the 60+ shares that i currently hold. So as i type this you'll be taking you place in the stands for Ayr vs Killy. Hope you enjoy yourself and get the result you want. I'm off to see Arsenal vs Villa tomorrow before the trip to Devon. The fact it's a 4.00pm kick off means i'll have to do the whole journey in the dark and will be lucky to get there before mid-night. As for Murray he's just unlucky to be in an era dominated by Federer and Nadal. Then just when he thought one of them may be close to retiring along comes Djokovic. Still life as world No. 3 or 4 can't be a bad thing. Just like all the world's top 100m sprinters being around in the Bolt era, their only chance of anything other than Silver is to hope he false starts. ATB.

Welcome back?? Or was that a fleeting visit?? I said some really nice things about you when you said you were leaving. Now i feel cheated lol!!! If i say i'm leaving will you say something nice to me?? Note the rise in sp from a low of 10p, hope you were able to top up and average down. Those nasty planning officials have said i need permission to rebuild a wall that has been up for 30 years!! It's only single skin and prone to damp so no good for the M-I-L's arthritis. So off to Devon for a while to get it all sorted. Will have a look in here when i am able so there may be a delay in any replies. ATB.

TNT paid 24.3p for the 2006 financial year when the share price was in the region 500-550p. IMHO with the newspaper industry in terminal decline, even with the added sales from the demise of the NOTW these levels will never be seen again. Even with rose-tinted glasses it is difficult to see this reaching 100p and divs - if they were to be re-instated - would only be in the region of 4-5p. ATB.

Visit their website for details of how to trade shares for £1 until 29th Feb. http://www.hl.co.uk/ ATB.

Nice to see this at an almost 4 year high. With all the good news in the building industry this should push even higher over 2012. Only another £10 needed to get back to Jan '07's high!! ATB.

Where are all the doom mongers who were talking about £3?? Shhhhh...... I can't hear anything!! Looks like Lord Harris's purchase of 50,000 a month ago - now showing a 40% profit - was well judged at the bottom. ATB.

And here it is. ATB.