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Well even short of a bid at this stage, if Drahi does a deal with DT and acquires their shares, Drahi will be able to put the BT Board under a huge amount of pressure, and it could at least result in Openreach being spun off

Sorry, "have seen them" that was supposed to have been

Hi Tom, yes all good thanks, and you are right it has been a quick year, and in spite of all the coved restrictions... Thanks for the heads up on Thin Lizzie. I have them a few times live, most notably 40 years ago this weekend in Greens Playhouse in Glasgow... Great band!... I also met them a few years earlier, when they were booked to play in Glasgow at the terminal one club in ST Enoch's Square in Glasgow, where a band I played in, in these days also played

Hi Starbright, thanks for that. With reference to the last paragraph of your post, - very interesting, I didn't know that

There must be some sort of news about to break, and as usual the PI's will be the last to know, or at least will be behind the market

Hi Paddy, thanks for that. I was actually thinking the same, but concluded that on balance, I would bet on it being Monday night our time,(the 13th) namely just before the AGM on Tuesday 14th

Hydro!........welcome back

Very good Loggy.... How long did that take you? ...lol

Adam, I think the answer to your question is "yes"... At this level, it is hugely oversold... If would guess that this will be much higher at the close, two weeks today

Why don't we ALL filter him, then we wouldn't have any cause to mention him again?

I have just topped up at 14.2. I never imagined that it would be possible to get in below the placing price

@ Gadbury, that is a pretty fair summary, and I for one certainly agree, that any criticism of SD is at the moment unjustified

Cashking, ny guess is that the lap top will belong to the company, but even if the laptop belonged to Craig personally, it is almost certain that the data which is contained or stored in the laptop, will be data which belongs to the company

IT appears that according to Bloomberg thst KKR have now launched a formal bid for Telecom Italia, and at pretty hefty premium

Freddie, anything is "possible", but your hypotheses is highly improbable

Do we know for certain, that GH did in fact buy 74.5 million shares - or is this speculation that is just gathering a bit of momentum?

Taverham, I actually just give my accountant a consolidated view as at my company's year end (30th June), but I also have all the contract notes etc, and all the financial intromissions are through the Bank anyway, so it is all completely transparent

Hi Huudi,

No my company is not primarily engaged in share dealing. I do however have a fund and share account, and buy shares and funds by way of investment as and when I have surplus funds that enable me to do so. I prefer to invest surplus funds in that way, rather than have a substantial cash surplus sitting in the company's current account earning no interest.

All the transactions are then taken in to account by my accountant when preparing the annual accounts, and the appropriate tax paid, either in respect of income received, or on any gain on realisation of investments held.

I hope that helps.

Regards
Davie

and as far as the rest of us are concerned, we now seem to have a base price for the SP, for which there is demand.

I think the inference therefore is that the SP has pretty much bottomed out now, at around 15p. I topped up earlier in both my ISA (by selling other shares, as I am already fully subscribed for this years limit) and also in my company's fund and share account, both with HL. I suspect that good news will now follow probably at, or by the AGM, and which will propel the SP higher

The "demand" was based on the discounted price, and there obviously had to be some sort of incentive to create the demand