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N + 1 Brewin upgrades Homeserve from hold to add.

Daniel Stewart maintained its "buy" stance and 202p target price on Greenko Group (GKO) despite the renewable energy firm exposing some weaknesses in its 2012 financial results earlier this week, noting "Greenko remains our pick in the Indian renewables sector". The broker admires the company's focus on developing high quality wind assets, which differs from India's existing wind capacity which it believes has been constructed for tax reasons. Daniel Stewart feels the recent share price weakness provides an attractive entry point for new investors.

Homeserve (HSV) is still a "hold" in the eyes of Seymour Pierce, the broker commenting that trading at the home insurance and emergency repair business remains in line with expectations with customer number and retention targets on track. The shares trade on a prospective 2013 earnings multiple of 7.6 times, a fair valuation the broker believes considering continued investigations by the Financial Services Authority amid the mis-selling of policies. This investigation is also the reason why Seymour Pierce has played down the rumour that the company is being preyed upon by a private equity firm

Panmure Gordon has stuck with its "sell" recommendation and 350p target price on fast-food group Domino's Pizza (DOM) ahead of interim results for the half to June next month, viewing its 24.6 times earnings multiple as too expensive. With competitive pressures increasing from Pizza Hut, Papa John;s and just-eat.co.uk as well as a 50% surge in wheat prices in the last five weeks, the broker believes the shares will soon be under some pressure

Fuller Smith & Turner Sell 19-Jul-12 £46,163.40 Richard Fuller 6,548 @ 705.00p Fuller Smith & Turner Sell 19-Jul-12 £24,583.35 Richard Fuller 3,487 @ 705.00p

Fuller Smith & Turner Sell 19-Jul-12 £209,448.46 M J Turner 29,709 @ 705.00p Fuller Smith & Turner Sell 19-Jul-12 £160,465.05 Simon Emeny 22,761 @ 705.00p Fuller Smith & Turner Sell 19-Jul-12 £145,737.60 James Douglas 20,672 @ 705.00p

Steve Wassell, the Chief Operating Officer of stockbroker Arden Partners, purchased 195,000 in the stockbroker through his self-invested personal pension on Thursday. Wassell bought the shares at 43.50p each for a total of £84,825, increasing his stake in the company to 373,743 shares, equal to around 1.5% of the issued share capital. On Monday the company reported a decrease in revenues to £5.6m (2011: £7.4m), halving profit before tax to £0.6m (2011: £1.2m). Basic earnings per share fell to 1.7p (2011: 3.7p), with the firm blaming the declines on the ongoing Eurozone problems.

JP Morgan Cazenove upgrades Severn Trent from underweight to neutral, target price raised from 625p to 705p.

Group Trading Performance We have continued to see growth in mobile data revenues, notably in Macau and Panama. Voice revenue continues to decline across the Group and we are working hard on costs to mitigate this especially in the Caribbean and Panama where, as anticipated, market conditions remain tough. Concurrent with this, Panama has shed a large number of low value, promotion driven customers, whilst maintaining mobile revenue. Termination rates in Jamaica have now been reduced and equalised which is an important step in creating a level regulatory playing field in mobile for all market players and we have seen an early pick-up in customer numbers resulting from promotional activity. BTC in the Bahamas is now in its second year with CWC and we are running ahead of our post-acquisition plan. The business continues to deliver solid progress in its financial performance together with much improved service and product offerings to its customers. Private sector and government enterprise pipelines retain a healthy potential although governments continue to be hesitant before launching the new programmes which we are there to support. Faced with this issue in its home market Cable & Wireless Panama is continuing to address enterprise opportunities in adjacent territories. Macau continues to trade strongly. Monaco and the Islands are trading in line on an underlying basis but we expect their reported performance will be affected by the weakness of the euro. Overall Group trading performance remains in line with the outlook indicated at 2011/12 results. Group Net Debt At 30 June 2012, Group net debt was $1,418 million, an increase of $23 million since 31 March 2012.

INTERIM MANAGEMENT STATEMENT This interim management statement provides an update on the performance and financial position of the Group since the year ended 31 March 2012. Interim results for the period ending 30 September 2012 are expected to be announced on 8 November 2012. Highlights · Group trading performance remains in line with outlook indicated at 2011/12 results · Bahamas business post-acquisition plan continues to deliver · Regulatory breakthrough in Jamaica · Continued focus on improving cash flow generation and increasing ROIC

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Commenting on the results, Xiao Gang, Chief Executive of BlueStar said: "The Company believes the financial year 2013 will still be another challenging year for its business, although we continue to win new contracts and new clients. The Company intends to increase its revenue in two ways: one is to develop the sales channel by expanding the sales team; the other is to continue to win more banking clients. We hope to create a firm foundation for the year through with this hard work."

Highlights for the year • Revenues down 17% to RMB 176 million (31 March 2011: RMB 213 million) • Gross profit down 20% to RMB 90 million (31 March 2011: RMB 113 million) • Gross margin down 2% to 51% (31 March 2011: 53%) • Fully diluted earnings per share 2.79 fen (31 March 2011: 45.31 fen) (100 fen = 1 RMB) • Profit before tax down 87% to RMB 5 million (31 March 2011: RMB 37 million excluding negative goodwill) • Cash position of RMB 51 million at year end (31 March 2011: RMB 55 million) • No dividend will be declared in respect of financial year ended 31 March 2012

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Paul Sanders, Group Chief Executive, said: "The improved performance in both Amaze and Interact is very pleasing. Both businesses have secured significant new wins with prestigious clients, avoiding the project overruns that impacted last year's performance. Amaze and Interact also have strong new business pipelines, giving us confidence in being able to achieve our full year expectations."

The Chase had a difficult start to the year due to delayed spend from its major client for the second consecutive year. However, there has been an increased emphasis on new business development and cost reduction to manage this temporary situation. There have been no exceptional costs in the period (2011: £0.5m) with the Group's restructuring now largely complete. Net debt decreased to £1.0m as at 30 June 2012 (31 December 2011: £1.5 million). The net reduction is after payment of earn-outs of £0.5m and the buy-back of shares of £0.2m. The first deferred payment of €375,000 due following the sale of Interel in 2011 was received in early July. The Group expects to publish its half year results for the six months to 30 June 2012 at the end of September 2012.

Half year trading update Hasgrove plc (AIM: HGV, 'Hasgrove' 'the Group'), the digital and communications services group, announces a trading update for the six month period ended 30 June 2012. For the first half Hasgrove expects to report gross income in the region of £9.0m (2011 restated1: £7.7m), an increase of 16% compared to the previous year and a pre-tax profit of approximately £0.7m (2011 restated1: £0.1m). Amaze continued to strengthen its expertise of working with central marketing teams, supporting the development of digital strategy, communications and infrastructure for large organisations. New business activity has continued to be successful with the securing of significant pan-European and global accounts, particularly in growth areas such as e-commerce. Encouragingly, significant projects in the first half have been delivered in line with expectations and the overruns experienced in the second half of 2011, have not been repeated. In the first half of the year, Interact, the intranet business, recorded its highest ever figure for new business sales including two intranet sales in excess of £100,000. Following the recruitment of new sales staff in the US in mid-February, a number of intranets have been sold in the US in the second quarter and the pipeline is developing ahead of expectations. This is very encouraging and there will be continued and equal focus on both UK and non-UK sales.

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Superglass continues to manage its working capital effectively and, despite the challenging market conditions, the net debt position has remained consistently ahead of forecast in recent months. Looking forward there are as yet no signs of any sustained improvement in the market and there continues to be great uncertainty over the transition from CERT to Green Deal when the former expires at the end of 2012. The impact of Green Deal and its effect on Superglass' business remains difficult to predict at this time and accordingly the range of possible outcomes for the Company is wide. The UK Government's own economic assessment suggests that the volume of insulation sales under Green Deal will be lower in 2013 than in 2012 under CERT which must be contrary to the desired outcome. The Board of Superglass continues to make representations to the UK Government to encourage initiatives to ensure an effective transition from CERT to Green Deal. The retrofitting of glasswool loft and cavity wall solutions are two of the most cost effective methods of reducing carbon emissions and, in the opinion of the Board of Superglass, ought to be a priority for continuing UK Government action. The strategic objective remains to migrate Superglass into a lower cost, higher quality producer of glass fibre insulation solutions with an emphasis on selling its products into the construction sector. Strengthening of the executive management team is critical to achieving this objective. We are pleased to announce the appointment of Allan Clow as Finance Director and Company Secretary of Superglass with effect from 28 August 2012. Allan was previously Finance Director of the Interiors Division of Havelock Europa PLC, which has turnover of circa £100m and has circa 700 employees. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and previously worked at Babcock Rosyth Defence Ltd, AG Barr PLC and Hughes Microelectronics Europa Ltd. There is no further disclosure required to be made regarding Allan Clow under Listing Rule 9.6.13R. Superglass is also investing in its sales function and has appointed an interim Sales and Marketing Director with extensive relevant sector experience.

Trading update and appointment of Finance Director and Company Secretary Superglass, the UK's leading independent manufacturer of glass fibre insulation solutions, today issues a trading update. This statement also comprises the Interim Management Statement for the period from 29 February 2012 to date. Market conditions in the UK are extremely challenging and difficult to predict, as reported in the interim results announced on 24 April 2012. Trading in the period since then has been disappointing and demand in the market is subdued. In particular sales through CERT (Carbon Emission Reduction Target) related activity have been disappointing, confounding industry expectations after the improvement seen in the early part of 2012. In addition activity levels in the construction sector have, as has been reported in the national press, been adversely affected by the poor weather and the unusually large number of bank holidays. Net sales in the second half of the current financial year are lower than we anticipated at the time of the announcement of the interim results and will be below the level reported for the first half, with average daily sales tonnages having declined since the relatively strong performance in March. This decline, which is due primarily to the reduction in CERT related sales, has been partly offset by an improvement in the average selling price per tonne. The Company's financial performance has also been adversely affected by a short-term increase in overhead costs incurred as a result of the turnaround process. The Board now expects that the Company's performance in the second half will be below that in the first half, as Superglass continues its turnaround and implements its cost reduction programme. Superglass is aggressively attacking its cost base. The cost reduction programme remains focused on Project Phoenix, the capital investment programme that was central to the refinancing completed on 5 December 2011. The Board is pleased to report that the project is proceeding well and contracts have now been entered into in respect of 64% of the overall project. Superglass has identified potential enhancements to Project Phoenix which, when combined with other cost saving actions to be taken, should when implemented reduce the cost base by up to £5m for a full financial year bringing the Company's previously high cost base in line with what is believed to be the industry norm. As previously stated the cost savings are expected to start to impact meaningfully in the year ending 31 August 2013. Superglass aims to be the lowest cost producer in the UK market.