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down 33%...says it all
I should have sold when I last posted end of June...to ask about funding but was attacked by the ramping crew.
Such is life

MORE dilution for long suffering shareholders AGAIN!

20% is soaring for most investors

Sources disclosed on Monday that the outline of a settlement has been drawn up that will involve Lloyds paying £140m in cash - less than had originally been anticipated - and allowing the Edinburgh-based funds house to retain management of roughly £30bn of? assets for three years.

The settlement, which is expected to be finalised later this week, will come four months after an arbitral tribunal ruled that Lloyds had not been entitled to give notice in February last year to terminate its agreement ?with SLA.
https://news.sky.com/story/lloyds-and-standard-life-aberdeen-to-settle-100bn-funds-row-11768449

61p with more to come!!

To hopefully stop the daily/weekly share ROT!!!!!
GLA

The Competition & Markets Authority is launching a probe to check if the takeover may reduce competition in the market
https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/223978/cma-to-probe-inmarsat-takeover-for-potential-competition-issues-223978.html

Hear Hear! mrtibbles

Looking good today.
GLA

According to the Stockopedia Small Cap report that I subscribe too
Below is their report on Nichols on wed 17th July 2019

Nichols (LON:NICL)
Share price: 1700p (+4%)
No. of shares: 37 million
Market cap: £629 million
2019 Interim Result & Board Changes

Running out of time now but I just want to mention this in the context of our analysis of Barr yesterday.

Nichols has seen UK revenue growth of >6% in H1, "against very strong prior year comparatives". It says UK soft drink sales in general are up by 4.1% year-to-date, using Nielsen data.

Outlook

While UK trading conditions are expected to remain challenging, as a result of the Group's diversified business model and sales momentum, the Board is confident that full year earnings will be delivered in line with its expectations.
My view

Firstly, I think this puts the horror show at Barr yesterday in an even worse light, since Nichols is having none of the same problems.

As for Nichols itself, it continues to look a very nice buy-and-hold candidate, as it always does. I am price-sensitive and leave it on my watchlist.

Stocko recognises the quality, calling it a High Flyer.

Well done Sid, GREGGS have soared
From £10 to £24.66 in a year and still going UP
https://www.stockopedia.com/share-prices/greggs-LON:GRG/
ATVB M8TY

Much better than suffering the humiliation of being sacked!
And being headlined in the rag press walking away from 10 Downing street, as was done to George Osborne

I know their were loads of technical spin offs from the space race...didn't know remote controls were one of them....as there are so many...or so it's claimed.
I found this from https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/chronology-british-television/

3 March 1966: The Phase Alternating Line (PAL) colour television system is officially adopted for the UK.
1 July 1967: Regular colour transmissions begin on BBC2.

It has all the major UK TV time lines

I never saw this before...it was used for 10 years!
THE HOME-MADE CAR
A James Hill production for BP
Duration: 28 minutes
First showing: 28th August 1963
Final showing: 23rd August 1973

Yeah Granada, Radio rentals and Rumbelows rented out TV's
One of the main things was that TV's used to be rather unreliable and need fixing so why buy something thats going to break down every few months when you could rent it and it didn't matter how much the repairs cost you still paid your 7'6p a week

This timeline of A SHORT HISTORY OF BRITISH TELEVISION is v interesting GUV
https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/chronology-british-television/

I watched this live ....slow but terrifying to watch.
The Great Climb, a live BBC three-night outside broadcast, which had around 15 million viewers.
featured three pairs of climbers: Chris Bonington and Tom Patey repeated their original route, whilst two new lines were climbed by Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis and by Pete Crew and Dougal Haston.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_Hoy

Maybe you were too young to remember those distant days in GLORIOUS black and white TV
Brief clip here..if you missed out
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1967-old-man-of-hoy/603517470021287/

PS.....A confession.....only recently discovered it was in Orkney.....(knew it was in Scotland)

The Open Championship
The Mullingar man has attracted 8% of all bets since teeing off yesterday

Shane Lowry is blowing his competition away at Royal Portrush, and at the bookies, with the Irishman installed as the odds-on favourite heading into the final day of the Open Championship.

The 32-year-old was pitched as a mammoth 70/1 shot pre-tournament, although that price has completely disappeared.

Lowry is now an 8/15 clear favourite to win the Claret Jug today, which is an implied probability of 65.2% that the grizzly Irishman wins his first major.

His closest challenger in the market, Tommy Fleetwood, is 4/1 to win this weekend, followed by American superstar Brooks Koepka (12/1) and Justin Rose (20/1).

https://www.oddschecker.com/insight/football/20190721-70-1-irishman-shane-lowry-now-8-15-to-win-the-open-championship

Go the IRISH....we don't want a YANK win..lo!
From an Englishman

The Open Championship
The Mullingar man has attracted 8% of all bets since teeing off yesterday

Shane Lowry is blowing his competition away at Royal Portrush, and at the bookies, with the Irishman installed as the odds-on favourite heading into the final day of the Open Championship.

The 32-year-old was pitched as a mammoth 70/1 shot pre-tournament, although that price has completely disappeared.

Lowry is now an 8/15 clear favourite to win the Claret Jug today, which is an implied probability of 65.2% that the grizzly Irishman wins his first major.

His closest challenger in the market, Tommy Fleetwood, is 4/1 to win this weekend, followed by American superstar Brooks Koepka (12/1) and Justin Rose (20/1).

https://www.oddschecker.com/insight/football/20190721-70-1-irishman-shane-lowry-now-8-15-to-win-the-open-championship

Much better than suffering the humiliation of being sacked!
And being headlined in the rag press walking away from 10 Downing street

You need to address your sssttttuuuttering
lo!

It is unclear whether the business will even remain listed on the stock market.

If it doesn't, the next unknown is whether small investors will be left owning a tiny sliver of an unlisted company, which they are unable to trade, or whether Fosun will offer them a nominal sum to buy them out.