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North Uist exploration well commences West of Shetland Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the North Uist prospect, West of Shetland (Faroe 6.25%). This deep water exploration well (Blocks 213/20b, 214/16b, 213/25C) is located near to Chevron's Rosebank oil discovery, also on the Corona Ridge, West of Shetlands. There are several reservoir objectives the most significant of which is North Uist at the Upper Jurassic level. Shallower in the section the well will also test the edge of the Cardhu prospect where sandstones of Paleocene age may be present. To manage the high well costs in this region, Faroe has secured a financial carry of a portion of the well costs through farm-out arrangements. The drilling operation will be undertaken by BP Exploration Operating Company Limited (47.5% interest) using the Stena Carron drilling rig. The other joint venture partners are CIECO Exploration and Production (UK) Limited (6.25%), Idemitsu Petroleum UK Ltd (5%) and Nexen Petroleum U.K. Limited (35%).

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Michael Collins, Chairman, commented: "These financial results reflect the strengthening trading conditions in all our markets, which resulted in improved demand through the course of the year. We have entered the new financial year with a solid order book and, at this stage, expect our 2012 turnover to demonstrate continued growth. In order to underpin this growth going forward, we plan to make a significant increase in our investment in new product development during this year."

Financial Highlights · Profit Before Tax increased by 17% to £2,710,332 (2010: £2,323,522) · Turnover increased by 9% to £13,807,669 (2010: £12,639,754) · Cash in business increased by 39% to £3.59m (2010: £2.59m) · EPS increased by 28% to 3.63 pence (2010: 2.84 pence) · Gross margin improved to 52.1% (2010: 50.9%) · Dividend increased to 1.60 pence per share for the year (2010: 1.50 pence) Operational Highlights · Continued close partnership with Intel · Increased investment in R&D · Several new products launched, incorporating the latest Intel® processors · Further diversification of customer base in strengthening market environment Outlook · Continued focus on innovative, high technology, higher margin products · Planned significant increase in new product development

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Christopher Humphrey, Anite's Chief Executive, commented: "We are delighted to have signed this important contract. Our travel product, @com, is the only proven large scale reservation system on the market today and is currently used by an increasing number of leading international leisure travel companies."

Trading Update Multi-year Travel contract win Anite plc, the leading provider of software solutions to the international wireless and leisure travel industries, today announces that its Travel division ("Travel") has signed a multi-year contract with Thomas Cook Group UK Limited ("Thomas Cook") for the implementation and support of Travel's @com reservation system in Thomas Cook's UK Mainstream division. Following this contract win and other recent progress by Travel, the Board now expects that Travel's revenues and profits for the year ending 30 April 2012 will be at least in line with those reported in the previous financial year. Travel's order backlog is now expected to close the current financial year ending 30 April 2012 in excess of £85m (compared to £69.7m as at 31 October 2011). As a result of this increase in expectations, the Board now expects overall Group profits for this financial year to be at least at the top end of the range of current market expectations. Anite will issue a year end trading update in early May.

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"The Board is pleased to report another solid business performance in 2011 and recording a sixth successive year of double digit growth in profits." "The Company is focusing on consolidating its position in the Analytics field and, through its strong partnership with its suppliers in this area it is allowing the business to broaden the scope of its technology offering outside of 'web-based analytics' into 'pure line business analytics'." "The overall mix of our business is to benefit from the on-going demand for Managed Services and especially so from the Analytics area. The security of Turnover and Gross profit gained from the high proportion of Recurring Revenue allows us a high level of comfort in the current insecure economic climate that surrounds us. This, coupled with a return to growth in our Projects business, leads the Board to be optimistic going forward."

2011 Financial Highlights · Revenue £9.06 million (2010: £10.98 million) · Recurring income accounted for 50.3% of revenue (2010: 41.4%) · Gross profit margin increased by 42% rising to 41.02% (2010: 28.91%) +12 points · Reported profit from operations £897,000 (2010: £678,000) +32.3% · Group profit* £835,000 (2010: *£699,000) +19.46% · Diluted earnings per share 3.03 pence (2010: 2.46 p) +23.17% · Final dividend 0.90p (2010: 0.79 p) · Total for the year 1.30p (2010: 1.15p) +13.04% · Strong balance sheet and cash position at year end of £531,000 (2010: £574,000)

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Commenting on the results, Eric Gadsden, Chairman, said: "There is a strong push to gain a recovery of costs and ultimately this will work its way through into the bottom line, but in the meantime our business is well invested, and has a high degree of complementary products demanded by an increasingly discerning market. "We are aware of a number of potential opportunities to grow our business and we will consider all of these, and believe that we are uniquely able to progress and lead them. We are able to look forward with cautious optimism."

CONT In our half year statement for the period ended 30 September 2011 the Board indicated that following the completion of our Chiswick store in May this year, capital expenditure would be largely suspended for the time being. That decision is now under review for the reasons set out below. The proposed VAT change would see a significant reduction in the cost of construction of new stores given that VAT on the construction costs would be recoverable. Furthermore the Group would be entitled to a repayment of previously unrecovered VAT on past construction expenditure, which we believe would be sufficient to fund the £14.3 million construction cost of new stores on the three sites that the Group currently owns at Gypsy Corner and Enfield (both in London), and in central Guildford. This would have the desirable effect of turning fallow assets into income producing contributors to the Group. This is particularly relevant on these London/London proximate stores which we believe would break even at circa 25% occupancy and be cash flow contributors within a year of opening. Notwithstanding the fact that the Group's debt is relatively low, we believe a further modest reduction is appropriate and that therefore remains our core ambition in the short term. The phased construction of these stores partially financed from the reimbursement of VAT would not significantly change the pace of the debt reduction programme.

Pre-close statement for the year ended 31 March 2012 Following last week's budget announcement on the proposed changes to the VAT status of self storage from 1 October 2012, the Board of Big Yellow Group PLC (the "Group") believes it is appropriate to update shareholders on the Group's progress by way of a pre-close statement this year. As we stated in last week's announcement, it is our intention to actively engage in the consultation process with HMRC. The Group is pleased to announce, with six trading days remaining in the final quarter of its financial year, that for the first time since the onset of the economic downturn in 2007, the occupancy in the Group's wholly owned store portfolio is above the high enjoyed in the previous September, thus recouping all the normal seasonal occupancy losses incurred in the December quarter. We now look forward to our traditionally busiest trading period from a new all-time high of occupied space. Growth in the quarter to date across our 53 wholly owned stores is 86,000 sq ft, compared to 41,000 sq ft for the same quarter last year. The occupancy of our 32 established store portfolio is currently 74.0%, and, excluding our newly opened store at New Cross, wholly owned store occupancy is 64.0%, compared to 63.4% at 30 September 2011 and 59.3% at 31 March 2011. The 12 stores within Big Yellow Limited Partnership have grown in occupancy by 21,000 sq ft in the quarter to date, and are now 42.6% occupied. We expect full year earnings to be in line with market expectations. The proposed changes to the VAT status is an industry wide issue and this, together with the current levels of demand we are experiencing, gives us increased confidence that our previously articulated strategy of wholly or substantially mitigating the impact of those changes has a reasonable chance of success.

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"These independent third-party estimates confirm those of our exploration team and justify our plans to develop Sentinel into a state-of-the-art facility capable of producing up to 300,000 tonnes of copper in concentrate annually. Our strategy is to develop this facility over a two-year timeframe at the same time as a new copper smelter in Zambia that would process all of Sentinel's concentrate production, eliminating the need to export concentrate to offshore smelters." "Altogether, we estimate Sentinel and the smelter project will require a capital investment of over US$2.4 billion, including an extensive infrastructure development program, and create approximately 2,400 direct jobs for Zambians." "We plan to fully activate the development of Sentinel on conclusion of commercial negotiations that are currently underway," noted Mr. Philip Pascall, First Quantum's Chairman and CEO.

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. ("First Quantum" or the "Company", TSX Symbol "FM", LSE Symbol "FQM") today issued the mineral resource and reserve estimates for its Sentinel copper project in Zambia. The project is part of the Trident project that is located approximately 150 kilometres west of the Company's flagship Kansanshi mine. Highlights: · An estimated measured and indicated ("M&I") resource of 1,027 million tonnes ("Mt") @ 0.51% copper ("Cu"), using a 0.2% Cu cut-off, containing 5.2 Mt of Cu. · An estimated recoverable proved and probable mineral reserve of 774 Mt @ 0.50% Cu, using a 0.2% Cu cut-off, containing 3.9 Mt of Cu. · A strip ratio of 2.2:1. · A mine life estimated to be in excess of 15 years with potential to increase with planned delineation drilling and future successful exploration.

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Profitability Plan Implementation 26 March 2012, PowerFilm, Inc. (AIM: PFLM), ("PowerFilm" or the "Company"), the developer and manufacturer of thin flexible solar panels and developer of roll to roll flexible electronics, today announces that it has begun executing elements of its updated strategic operations plan announced on 19 March 2012 in its year end results announcement. The Company's Management Committee has conducted a comprehensive review of 2012 plans and budgets to sharpen strategic priorities and to reduce costs. As a result, reductions are being made in payroll expense, costs in sales and marketing, consulting fees, R&D material usage, consolidation of IT, and supplies. As part of the process the service of 9 employees has been terminated. In addition a focused effort is continuing to be made to expand and grow sales revenues. The positive impact of these cost reductions is anticipated to be realized primarily in the second half of the year.