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To see a director buying for a change. We like it when directors buy. She obviously thinks it's good value at the moment. Might have to dig deep myself and have a top up.

Marstons will have to increase the price of food and drink accordingly to counteract the increase in employee salary. Will it put customers off? No, because they are all feeling like millionaires on the new £9 ph minimum wage. I half expect the government to backtrack on this proposal, I mean how can you have someone that cleans hotel rooms on the same rate of pay as a dental nurse who has done lots of medical training and has to continue training throughout their career?.

A new store in Middlesbrough has been abandoned despite the building and car park being completed. Why don't they create a Netto if it's because of the lidl and Aldi they have scrapped it. Sainsbury's abandons Middlesbrough superstore http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-33880805

You get your broker to sell your shares which you hold in an ordinary account and then re-buy them into your shares ISA account. these transactions (like today's) are usually a few seconds apart and about the same price if you have a good broker. So really these trades don't really count today, very few shares were actually traded today in reality, certainly not enough to warrant a 10% rise in sp. PS hold on, good news on the horizon..

The 4 x 100,000 qty trades are obviously a bed & isa at 11:47 to 11:48 today. Bit of a botch up with the first trade which was cancelled. Absolutely no reason for the sp to have moved much at all today.

Like for like sales up 2%; due partly I shouldn't wonder to the newly opened (last month) rotisserie restaurant and lodge in Whitby N. Yorks, it is constantly packed out, Whitby is a gold mine for this type of business and Marstons now have a good stake in it. With Sirius minerals (sxx) recently given the go ahead for their polyhalite mine 2-3 miles away I dare say business will be good for the next 100 years.

I take solace from the £5 discount using my privilege card the other night, I just need to start dining at Marstons three times a day!

The Ministry of Defence has asked some of Britain’s biggest companies to bid to run the military’s fire and rescue services, in a move that would hand billions of pounds of work to the private sector in a search for savings. SERCO are one of the companies bidding. They already have firefighters working for the military and own a firefighter training school which the Secretary of State for defence visited in March, Rupert Soames was there to show the defence minister around the international fire training centre. Hopefully SERCO can bag this contract.

Some good news on the way for sure, the big buys over last few days are obviously those with a 'crystal ball' insight to the news, nudge, nudge, wink, wink say no more. Alkane (ALK) has gone up 5.5% today too.

Well I bought 500 shares today, mainly to get the Marstons privilege card which gives you 20% off food & hotel. A new Marstons is opening in Whitby N.Yorks next month and if it does as well as the JD Wetherspoon that opened there a few years ago then we'll be laughing. The JDW is one of the busiest in the country, so much so they have a limited food menu as the kitchen cannot cope with the demand. Looks like we bought just in time to benefit from the 2.50p dividend on the 7th July, this goes ex-dividend tomorrow.

Not all companies pay dividends. Bdev you had to hold shares at 23rd April 2015 for a 4.8p dividend to be paid on every share held on the 20th may 2015. The next divi after this will likely be November 2015 but you will have to hold shares about a month beforehand. BDEV are looking to pay dividends of around 93p for every share held over the next three years. If it's dividends your after look at ALY they pay every 6 months 1p for every share held, share cost is 32p so you can buy 17 shares for the price of one here, 17p vs 4.8p dividend. Also make sure your shares are in a shares ISA then all dividends are tax free.

Demand outstripping supply: http://bloom.bg/1PmZrKa

Received my letter today. They have made an error and they are sorry for the inconvenience they have caused. Well they will be sorry as I sold my shares because of the information contained in the letter the other week. Personally I am sorry to all for recently posting on here about the cancellation of the capital repayment. I do hope no one took the drastic action I did.

I paid £3.67 sold at £4.27. Plus I have had a few dividends. I've made a profit, I'm happy, I was going to hold but bdev have changed the goal posts ref capital repayment so they can shove my loyalty! This time next year you'll be a millionaire and I'll still be a plonker!

Mark Abbot buys £25k of shares today, I wonder if he knows something good is going to happen!

Looks like it's going to be a busy and hopefully prosperous 2015 Commenting on the planning decision Mark Abbott, Managing Director of Egdon said; "We are delighted to receive planning consent for the drilling of the North Kelsey-1 exploration well. North Kelsey will expose Egdon to 2.7 million barrels of mean Prospective Resources in a series of stacked sandstone reservoir targets. We will now work through the various planning conditions to be in a position to drill the North Kelsey-1 well as part of our H1 2015 drilling programme which in addition to operated wells at Laughton-1, North Kesley-1 and Biscathorpe-1 will include a well at Kiln Lane-1 operated by Europa."

easily done, i sold all my united utility shares the other week after a broker rating SELL 730p. they were over 900p days after my sell. but i did make a profit as i originally got them for 670p. lesson learned I think. I'm hanging on to these for grim death now!

RNS out. Briefly: To begin mobilisation to the Wressle-1 site during the week beginning 5th January 2015 with testing operations to start shortly thereafter. HAPPY NEW YEAR hopefully!

Over £2,2m added to the company value today. Nice.

Maybe they will approach us to do some exploration for them or offer finance to progress future projects of ours. Let's see if the sp reacts today.