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Analysister - are you currently invested in Spire? GLA

Sage - if people think the NHS will exist in 5 yrs time in the same form as it does now, they are wholly naïve. The reality is private healthcare is only going one way, dictated by rising NHS costs and the short term unavailability of tests, scans, operations etc due to woeful undersupply of these services. You simply cant keep giving stuff away for nothing and there is no doubt that higher earners will be forced to take out private medical care at some point in the future. Somebody mentioned the other day as to whether MDC was on the same track as Mike Ashley in lending out its shares for shorting purposes. Who knows, but this has taken one heck of a hit in the last twelve months and you can guarantee that whatever was announced to the market post ending of the MDC takeover in terms of Spires financial health, MDC would have been all over this during due diligence, so it was known about. I suspect that one BoD is teaching another BoD a lesson in market economics....with an obvious end game of a cheaper takeover. GLA

Some interesting comments on here that back up my market analysis - we need news on margins and I've had a feeling for some time that there might be a placing in the offing. Come on EDL - there are suffering long term holders in here (under far deeper water than me). Give them the reassurance that the market is looking for. GLA

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Lol!

Mulder - indeed insane - looks orchestrated to flush out the weak. Bid on the cards no doubt IMHO. GLA

Italian - there isn't enough being reported in the public domain - those interested should look up Christopher David March at Companies House. Anyone with 39 Active appointments, a fair few of which have only him as the active person, tends to tell its own story.

Larry - that's exactly why I didn't post Andy's email address at the FCA! Good that you've posted the others up again. GLA

AIM - alternative investment market - you betcha it is

Deepest - depends - 78% gross margin is more than achievable in the food industry and I would say 7.8% net margin is way too low. But that isn't the issue - there's a load of cash disappeared by the looks of things which has completely undermined the financial stability of the company. Yet again another AIM story - huge placing at 50p to shore up the BoD mess ups and PIs lose out. I'm not in Cake so I haven't done research around who holds shares etc, but its a shameful set of circumstances. I hope those PIs heavily invested get a decent chunk back. GLA

3.14 - it's me selling my entire holding again....

LTEL - lot of discussion about this over the last week or so - worth having a read back through. We don't tend to gets lots of posting on the EDL board, other day excepted, so you should be able to get the gist and thoughts of a number of us. AIM in itself defies logic sometimes. GLA

Really sorry for LTHs and hope this does come back and you can recover something. AIM is officially a cesspit. GLA

aerial - have to agree - I've never been a fan of consolidation of shares and my own history suggests that shares I have been in that have been consolidated tend to go one way over time, usually driven by placings. If I recall correctly we were c0.5 post 20:1 consolidation in EDL, had a brief flight up to the heady heights of 1p ish and now we're almost half the price from where we started.

gaf - there's no parallel with Beacon - we aren't heavily in debt from out prospecting / pre-production phases and we don't have operating losses of multi million pounds; we had c£0.5million in cash at the end of June, but it is a case of how far this is going to go. I keep saying it - it's all about demonstrating to the market that we have a viable long term business - we don't yet have an answer IMHO. GLA

larry - the BoD of NEW was also limited in its ability to issue shares. It didn't stop it there. I'm just getting quite nervous about EDL at the moment. I've been in and out of this share for donkeys years and now have a sizeable sum tied up. In NEW it ended up as a case of we need to issue these shares or we can't continue - take it or leave it PIs - technically it's borderline as to whether EDL is a solvent company operationally, as I can't anywhere decipher whether we are actually operating at a loss or very small profit on the coal we are selling. That's why I keep banging on about margin. The problem with our positive RNS announcements is the market is seeing them as smoke and mirrors - still. It's been jam tomorrow from Rufus for so long that there is no confidence left, anywhere, until he states the obvious - are we or aren't we making a net profit? GLA

Sausage - Rufus can have all my shares for 1p each....

Or it's forward selling, but of course it can't be because that's illegal

john - it's worth dropping the FCA an email if you (a) feel strongly about the possible massaging of the price and more importantly (b) think it wont fall on deaf ears - market.abuse@fca.org.uk - I posted last week that it takes two minutes to do it.

aerial - agree with that post too - not sure Rufus understands the phrase of "shareholder value".....