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GALLIFORD TRY REACHES FINANCIAL CLOSE ON £347 MILLION GATESHEAD REGENERATION PROGRAMME Galliford Try plc, the housebuilding and construction group, announces that it has reached financial close on the £347 million Gateshead regeneration programme announced in April 2011. Galliford Try's consortium with Gateshead Council and housing association Home Group will now form a Local Asset Backed Vehicle to build 2,400 homes and associated community facilities, for both private sale and affordable housing. Work is expected to start on the first sites later this year and continue over the next 15 years, with the first package of three sites seeing the development of 318 homes, 55 of which will be for affordable tenures. All homes will exceed current Homes & Communities Agency space standards.

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SP certainly has potential to perform this year - good contracts here and as they state many are new customers which is excellent hews for accumulative business

Faisal Rahmatallah, Executive Chairman of Plastics Capital, commented: "Our plastic ball bearings business has rewarded the investment we have made in business development activities over the last 2 years. New projects are coming through and will translate into revenue growth once tooling is complete and production orders start. I am confident that we will see further significant success in this area over the next 12 months too."

New Contract Wins for Bearings Division Plastics Capital plc (AIM: PLA) the niche plastics products manufacturer, is pleased to announce an excellent financial year for new contract wins within its plastic ball bearings division ("BNL"), which is its largest division by revenue, in conjunction with the existing business performing in-line with management expectations. We are pleased to announce that during the current financial year we have secured 18 new contracts worth a total incremental annual sales value exceeding £2.3m, which represents a 10% increase on the corresponding period last year. Of these new contracts, 30% is being delivered by seven new customers, so enlarging our customer base and providing opportunities for further contract wins with the same customers in the future; these successes reinforce our growth strategy. In addition, we have recently secured our first project win for another local Chinese customer, the substantial textiles machinery manufacturer, Jen Haur Company Ltd. This is further evidence of the encouraging start made by the Group's recently established Shanghai sales office. Furthermore, the new projects pipeline for the bearings business has grown stronger with a particularly high number of excellent opportunities emerging within the automotive sector. The growth in the projects pipeline is being driven by customers becoming increasingly sensitive to the advantages associated with high specification plastic ball bearings as made by BNL; specifically issues like weight, design flexibility and cost.

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Billing Services Group Limited ('BSG' or the 'Company') Audited Accounts (April 2, 2012) San Antonio, Texas - Further to the announcement of the Company's results for the year ended December 31, 2011 made on March 27, 2012, a copy of the audited accounts can now be accessed at http://www.bsgclearing.com/investors/annual_reports_financial_statements/.

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Uranium Resources Managing Director Alex Gostevskikh said, "These initial drillholes from our 2012 programme continue to confirm the presence of stacked roll-fronts at depth. All four holes intercepted strata with elevated uranium values both near surface and at depth. They take us one step further in defining the geometry of the Mtonya roll-fronts and mark a great beginning of the 2012 programme."

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Dr Chris Blackwell, Chief Executive of Vectura, commented: "Achieving the primary endpoints in all three of the Phase III studies gives us confidence that QVA149 could be the first LAMA/LABA combination product to provide benefit to patients with COPD in a multi-billion dollar market that is still growing."

QVA149 phase III COPD studies met primary endpoints · Efficacy, safety and exercise endurance primary endpoints all met · Studies are part of IGNITE Phase III clinical trial program intended to form the basis of an NDA filing in COPD · QVA149, a bronchodilator with dual mode of action, is Novartis' third innovation in its Breezhaler® Single Dose Dry Powder Inhaler · COPD is predicted to be the third leading cause of death in the world by 2020

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Marl Site Operations Yule Catto & Co plc ("Yule Catto" or the "Group"), the international producer of speciality chemicals, today issues this update on the status of its operations at the Marl Chemiepark, Germany following an incident on the site of another plant operator elsewhere on the Marl site on Saturday 31st March . Our thoughts are with those who were injured and their families. No Yule Catto staff or operations were either involved in or affected by the accident or its consequences, and production continued normally in all three of the Group's plants on the Marl site both on Saturday 31st March when the incident occurred and over the remainder of the weekend. The Authorities are continuing to investigate the cause of the incident, but based on the information available at this time, we do not anticipate any impact to normal production at any of our plants on the Marl Site. The Marl Site is one of 4 locations in Europe where Yule Catto produce SBR (Styrene Butadiene) Latex Emulsion through its Synthomer subsidiary. The Marl Site, where 3 production units are located, produces a range of speciality SBR Latex Emulsion products.

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Afferro and Severstal Announce Delay to Closing of the Transaction Afferro Mining Inc. ("Afferro", TSX-V & AIM: AFF) and OAO Severstal ("Severstal", LSE: SVST) today announce that they have agreed to delay the closing of Afferro's sale of its 38.5 percent minority interest in Severstal Liberia Iron Ore Ltd. to Lybica Holding B.V. ("Lybica"), an affiliate of Severstal (the "Transaction"), due to ongoing taxation discussions with the Republic of Liberia's Ministry of Finance (the "Ministry"). As disclosed on 28 February 2012, the parties have received correspondence from the Ministry claiming that Lybica should withhold tax at the rate of 15 percent upon payment of the purchase price of the Transaction. After consulting with Liberian tax advisers and legal counsel, neither Severstal nor Afferro believe that such a tax is payable. This advice is consistent with the advice obtained by the parties prior to entering into the Transaction. Representatives of both companies continue to work to resolve this matter in a prompt manner and as a result have amended the share purchase agreement to provide an outside closing date of 4 April 2012.

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CONT Following the merger between Colombia Telecomunicaciones, S.A. ESP and Telefónica Móviles Colombia, S.A., Telefónica will hold 70% of the share capital of the resulting company while the Government will control the remaining 30%. Likewise, by virtue of the agreements signed, the Government could increase its stake in the merged company in an additional 3% by 2015, based on its operating performance. The merger of both companies will create the second largest integrated operator in Colombia and will allow the new company to strengthen its competitive position in the Colombian market and improve its outlook for future growth. Based on integrated, flexible and efficient management, the Company will offer a full range of telecommunications services. This, together with the larger size of the Company, will enable the capture of important synergies in the coming years.

SIGNIFICANT EVENT Telefónica, S.A. ("Telefónica") hereby reports that Telefónica Móviles Colombia, S.A. (a company fully owned by Telefónica), the Colombian government (hereinafter "the Government"), and Colombia Telecomunicaciones, S.A. ESP (a company 52% owned by Telefónica Group and 48% by the Government) have reached a final agreement to restructure their fixed and mobile business in Colombia. Such agreements include, among other commitments, the assumption by the Government of 48% of the payment obligations not yet due of Colombia Telecomunicaciones, S.A. ESP to the Patrimonio Autónomo Receptor de Activos de la Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones - PARAPAT. The agreements reached also include an amendment to the Operating Contract for the extension in six years, to 2028, of the payment obligations not yet due of Colombia Telecomunicaciones, S.A. ESP to the PARAPAT. As a result of these agreements, the net financial debt which will be fully consolidated in the financial statements of the Telefónica Group, will fall by approximately 1,300 million euros. This agreement includes, and is subject to the merger of Colombia Telecomunicaciones, S.A. ESP and Telefónica Móviles Colombia, S.A. that will become effective after the approval has been granted by the General Shareholders' Meetings of both companies, (whose shareholders, as mentioned above, are companies of the Telefónica Group and the Government), due to take place on 24 April 2012, and after receipt of the appropriate regulatory approvals.

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