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Operating Profit Margin Operating profit margin for the first half of 2012 was 15.4% compared to 14.1% in the first half of 2011.

Christopher Satterthwaite, Chief Executive, said: "We are reporting strong income and profit growth in our continuing businesses whilst evolving into an international communications and sports marketing group. We are now well positioned in these high growth sectors, especially sports marketing, which has become the leading way for global brands to engage their audiences as the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have demonstrated. Despite difficult overall economic conditions we anticipate continued growth in our sectors and in our businesses and, as such, the long term outlook for the Group remains very good."

OUTLOOK The transition from a diversified group with an emphasis on public relations to an international communications and sports marketing group is well advanced. The group is building market leading brands to challenge and win market share from the competition in market sectors that are growing ahead of general marketing communication disciplines. Despite a challenging macro-economic environment, Chime anticipates positive organic growth especially from its sports marketing division, which has doubled its income in the first half of the year already. With further acquisitions planned, tight cost control, new banking facilities agreed and positive contributions from the other divisions, the outlook for the Group remains good.

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Keith Neilson, CEO of Craneware commented, "CMS' esMD program increases the efficiencies around documentation requests to ensure improper payments are handled as quickly as possible. Since the early days of the RAC demonstration project, Craneware's InSight Audit knowledgebase has grown and now, in becoming an esMD-certified vendor, we have expanded the capabilities of our Audit and Revenue Recovery solutions to support our clients' document submission needs with CMS. As a certified esMD provider, we help clients efficiently comply with documentation requests and support CMS in its goal to transform electronic communications via these gateways, particularly as esMD promises to become the future of audit tracking."

Craneware Certified by US Federal Agency to provide mechanism for electronic submission of medical documentation Craneware plc (AIM: CRW.L), the market leader in automated revenue integrity solutions for the US healthcare market, today announced that it has achieved Electronic Submission of Medical Documentation (esMD) certification from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). With this certification, Craneware is now authorised to offer esMD gateway services to healthcare organisations to enable the electronic submission of medical records to auditors. As one of only a small number of esMD-certified Health Information Handlers (HIH), Craneware's InSight Audit™ solution will enable the digital submission of medical record documentation, facilitating the adoption of streamlined processes amidst increasing healthcare audits. This capability will increase efficiency of the audit process and assist hospitals and health networks with the collection and retention of earned revenue to improve the efficiency of audit defense, including Medicare Recovery Audits (formerly RAC) and Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) audits. In phase two of the esMD program, which will begin in 2013, review contractors will also be able to electronically send Additional Documentation Requests (ADR) to providers via approved HIH vendors.

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Dividend Declaration 888, one of the world's most popular online gaming entertainment companies, announces, together with its half-yearly report, that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of an interim dividend of 2.5 cents per share to holders of 888's ordinary shares. The Board of Directors has approved a record date of 14 September 2012 and a payment date of 18 October 2012. The shares will be quoted ex-dividend on 12 September 2012. The last day to elect for the dividend reinvestment plan will be 23 September 2012. Holders of shares in certificated form and holders of depositary interests will receive the dividend in pounds sterling. Conversion between the declared USD rate and GBP will take place on 16 October 2012.

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Kirill Golovanov, CEO of Ovoca Gold plc, remarked: "July 2012 has seen significant volumes of planned field work completed. Now that blasting is completed for bulk sampling, diamond core drilling has started at the Stakhanovskiy Project with Wardell Armstrong International consultants working with us to prepare an updated resource estimate by the end of this year." "At the Rassoshinskaya Project, field work was focused during the month on our new prospect, Bazaar, with trenching and diamond drilling exposing a significant extensive high sulphidation alteration pyrite-rich system. The first assays should be received soon. At the Agromniy Prospect, a trench exposed a 250m long quartz vein containing lead and silver with very high gold and silver assays from surface float samples (previously announced in the 2011 Annual Report). More trenching is planned to test the widths along this strike length. With the current targets at Bazaar and Agromniy, and a further porphyry copper-gold target to test at the Vist Prospect, exploration success for this field season may be achieved".

Highlights Stakhanovskiy Project: · Processing of 16,586 tonnes (for the 2012 calendar year to date) of primary rock from the Berezitoviy and Zabolocheniy ore bodies by gravity concentration plant · 10,667 tonnes mined from Zabolocheniy, 5,288 tonnes from Albitoviy, and 2,285 tonnes from Berezitoviy bulk sample trenches Rassoshinskaya Project: · Podgorniy Prospect: Three HQ core drill holes intercepted: 1.2 metres at 10.40 g/t gold and 101.00g/t silver from 26.0 metres depth 2.9 metres at 7.94 g/t gold and 18.70 g/t silver from 34.4 metres depth 0.9 metres at 10.00 g/t gold and 11.50 g/t silver from 356 metres depth · Bazaar Prospect: New high sulphidation type pyrite mineralization, with gold grade unknown, discovered within a 600 metre trench and from 1,050 metres of core drilling · Agromniy Prospect: 1,000 metres of surface trenching exposed a high grade lead-silver (and potential gold) quartz vein at least 250 metres in length At the Stakhanovskiy Project, the bulk sampling mill continues to perform in line with expectations. Assay results are being received from the Knelson concentrator tailings and shaking table products. At the Rassoshinskaya Project, NQ-sized diamond core drilling has been undertaken at the Bazaar Prospect, located 2km to the east of Podgorniy and 65km to the north of the Olcha JORC Inferred resource. The final assay results at the Zet Prospect demonstrate that the typical mineralisation at this prospect is composed of small high grade gold-silver quartz-adularia veining within a broad zone of low grade, but anomalous, gold and silver values. At the Podgorniy Prospect, moderate grade gold mineralisation was shown to continue to 356m vertical depth from surface. Scenarios for significant gold-silver resources at Podgorniy and Zet have now been reduced.

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Date for the diary Interim Management Statement Notification Johnston Press plc, one of the leading community media groups in the UK and Ireland, will issue an Interim Management Statement on 13 November 2012, reporting on trading to date during the period ending 31 December 2012. The Company will host an analyst and investor call at 8.30am on 13 November 2012 to discuss the statement. To register as a participant or for further information, please contact Louise Hadcocks at Buchanan on 020 7466 5000. A recording of this conference call will be available from 11.00am on 13 November 2012. Replay details will be accessible on the Group website www.johnstonpress.co.uk.

Dr. Alexander Djaparidze, EDC's Chief Executive Officer, added: "The Russian oil services market continues to demonstrate resilience to global market pressures. While total drilling volumes in Russia increased by 9% period-over-period, we were able to achieve industry-leading growth of 24% in our meters drilled. Consistent focus on execution, deep understanding of our customers' needs and the successful integration of our newly acquired businesses have all contributed to these favorable results. E&P companies are increasingly requiring more complex drilling and thanks to our investment in our fleet, we are well placed to efficiently provide them with advanced solutions. We are on track to achieve another record year by every measure. This year will be also marked as the year when we made our first foray outside the CIS with the acquisition of drilling rigs and crews in Iraq in July 2012." Conference Call Details A conference call for investors and analysts hosted by senior management of the Company, will be held on the same day at 3:00 p.m. BST. Equivalent times for other locations: 4:00 p.m. Central Europe, 6:00 p.m. Moscow, 10:00 a.m. New York.

1H 2012 OPERATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS: · Drilling output during the first half of 2012 was 2.871 million meters, 23% above the output achieved in the corresponding period of 2011 (2.325 million meters); · Horizontal meters drilled during the first half of 2012 increased by 13% compared to the corresponding period of 2011 and amounted to 412 thousand meters; · Sidetracking activity more than quadrupled and amounted to 102 wells sidetracked during the first six months of 2012, as compared to 24 wells sidetracked during the corresponding period of 2011; · Our market share increased to 29% based on meters drilled onshore in Russia during the first six months of 2012, up from 25% in the corresponding period of 2011; · The share of our largest customer, LUKOIL, increased slightly to 56% of our total meters drilled during the first half of 2012, as compared to 54% during the corresponding period of 2011; however LUKOIL drilling volumes increased by 29% period-over-period; · The share of Rosneft, our second largest customer, increased to 27% of our total meters drilled during the first six months of 2012 as compared to 20% during the corresponding period of 2011; · During the first half of 2012 our ASTRA jack-up rig was employed in Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea, drilling on N Block; · During the first half of 2012 we drilled and completed four extended-reach horizontal development wells using LUKOIL's Yuri Korchagin field platform in the Caspian Sea; · Our SATURN jack-up rig continued its operations for Petronas Carigali in Turkmen waters of the Caspian Sea; one well was drilled and three geological sidetracks were performed; · During the first half of 2012 the modules of our 3rd new-build jack-up rig were in the process of shipping to the Caspian Sea from Lamprell's shipyard in the UAE; and · In April 2012 we contracted Lamprell to build a 4th new-build jack-up drilling rig to add to our operations in the Caspian Sea.

W. Richard Anderson, EDC's Chief Financial Officer, commented: "Period after period we consistently deliver strong financial and operational results. Our first half 2012 results are no exception. Our revenues amounted to US $1.5 billion for the period which is higher than revenues achieved for a full year of 2007. These results reflect our success in organic development, a targeted CAPEX programme and strategic acquisitions which has enabled us to meet the growing demand for drilling services in Russia and the CIS. Our focus on maintaining tight cost controls and an evolving mix of services provided lead to significant improvement in EBITDA margin. Our financial position is strong and we are confident that we will meet both our operational and financial targets for the year."

EDC First Half 2012 Results MOSCOW, August 28, 2012 -Eurasia Drilling Company Limited ("EDC" or the "Company" - LSE: EDCL), the leading onshore and offshore drilling service provider in the CIS, today released its Interim Consolidated Financial Results, prepared in accordance with US GAAP, for the six month period ended June 30, 2012. The reviewed 2012 Interim Consolidated Financial Statements for the six months ended June 30, 2012, and the Management Report on 2012 Interim Period Results, can be found under the following link: http://www.eurasiadrilling.com/financial_information.html 1H 2012 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS: · Top line revenue up 24% to US $1,564 million (1H 2011: US $1,265 million); · EBITDA increased 40% to US $373 million (1H 2011: US $267 million); · EBITDA margin amounted to 23.9% (1H 2011: 21.1%); · Net Income increased 24% to US $187 million (1H 2011: US $151 million); · Earnings per share (basic/diluted) up 24% to US $1.28 (1H 2011: US $1.03); · Capital expenditures were US $282 million (1H 2011: US $215 million); · We paid dividends for the year ended December 31, 2011 in the amount of $0.47 per share; · Net debt as of June 30, 2012 was US $350 million (December 31, 2011 net debt position was US $244 million).

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