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Telecity Group plc ('TelecityGroup', 'the Group' or 'the Company'), Europe's industry-leading provider of premium carrier-neutral data centres, today announces its results for the six months ended 30 June 2011. Highlights • Revenue up 19.8% to £112.2m (H1 2010: £93.7m) • EBITDA(1) up 30.5% to £49.4m (H1 2010: £37.9m) • EBITDA margin up to 44.1% (H1 2010: 40.4%) • Adjusted(2) profit before tax up 44.6% to £31.0m (H1 2010: £21.4m) • Adjusted diluted earnings per share up 27.3% to 11.2p (H1 2010: 8.8p) • Acquisition of market-leading carrier-neutral data centre operator in Ireland, Data Electronics Group Limited, for a total consideration of £87.6m brings critical mass and secured expansion capacity in a growth territory • Total available customer power at the period end up to 59MW (H1 2010: 54MW), increasing to 63MW with the acquisition of Data Electronics • Total announced(3) customer power including the acquisition of Data Electronics up to 116MW • Senior debt facility expanded by £100m to £300m and term extended to May 2016 with interest rate savings

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Commenting on today's announcement, Liam Church, Chief Executive Officer of Escher, said: "We are delighted to see Escher Group's shares trading on AIM today. The quotation provides us with a strengthened balance sheet and additional working capital to help accelerate our rate of growth. We see a number of opportunities to expand our business through leveraging our leading market position, entering new markets and rolling out Riposte TrEx, our revolutionary new digital Post Office box model."

Key strengths of the Group · Market leadership. In a market with high barriers to entry, the Group is a world-leading provider of outsourced postal counter software solutions to national post offices, of which Escher supplies 29. As far as Escher is aware, none of its competitors supplies more than three. · Growing markets. Demand for outsourced postal counter software is growing as national post offices seek to increase revenues and reduce costs. The Group's current targeted retail products projected sales pipeline is estimated at US$157 million. The estimate of targeted sales pipeline provided is based on sales that may arise further to tenders already submitted, interaction with potential customers and anticipation of tenders that may arise within a three year period. · High visibility of earnings. As at 31 May 2011, the Group had US$29 million of contracted revenues, approximately US$9 million of which relates to the period from 1 June 2011 to 31 December 2011. Lease, maintenance and support contracts often run from 5-10 years. Historically, approximately 60 per cent. of the annual sales budget is visible in January of each year. · High quality of earnings. Length of typical contract, the quasi governmental nature of Escher's customers and the geographic spread of customers all contribute to the Directors' high level of confidence in Escher's revenues. Over the past three year period, no single customer accounted for more than 17 per cent. of Escher's revenues. · Experienced management. The Executive Directors have in aggregate over 63 years of experience within, and providing services to, the postal industry. Having conducted the MBO of Escher in 2007, they have increased Continuing EBITDA from US$0.7 million in 2008 to US$4.3 million in 2010 (US$4.6 million net of one-off costs). · Proven technology. The core Riposte software is robust, reliable and adaptable. It has been running continuously for 18 years. · Multiple growth opportunities. The Group has four key opportunities for growth: incremental sales to existing customers; further penetration of the outsourced postal counter software market; the application of the Group's existing retail technology to other vertical markets and the adoption of the Group's revolutionary, message-based communications software - RiposteTrEx.

Escher Group Holdings Public Limited Company First Day of Dealings Escher Group Holdings Public Limited Company (AIM: ESCH.L, "Escher" the "Group" or the "Company"), a world leading provider of outsourced, point of sale software to the postal industry, is pleased to announce that the Company's shares have today been admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange plc under the TIDM code "ESCH" and ISIN Code IE00B6SKRB38. 9,033,097 Placing Shares have been allocated to institutional investors at a price of 170 pence per share raising approximately US$25.0 million (£15.4 million) for the Company before expenses. On admission to AIM a total of 17,033,097 Ordinary Shares were in issue capitalising the Company at approximately US$47.1 million (£29.0 million) at the Placing Price. The Company's nominated adviser and broker is Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited. Background on the Group · Escher is a world leading provider of outsourced, point of sale software to the postal industry. Escher's core software, Riposte, provides a solution for postal authorities which are seeking to counteract a decrease in traditional mail volumes by widening their service offering, reducing cost and increasing efficiency. · Postal authorities' software requirements have become more complex, leading to a growing trend towards outsourcing. Riposte is already in use in 30 countries and territories worldwide. It is licensed for over 150,000 workstations. · Substantially all of Escher's existing customers are national postal authorities including An Post in Ireland, Austria Post, Deutsche Post, Norway's Posten and SAPO in South Africa. Long licence and maintenance contracts and repeat business from quasi governmental customers give Escher good visibility of high quality earnings and have increased Continuing EBITDA (as defined in the Admission Document) from US$0.7 million in 2008 to US$4.3 million in 2010 (US$4.6 million net of one-off costs). · The Company is targeting continued growth through incremental sales to existing customers, new sales within the postal industry, penetration of new vertical markets and through the launch of its revolutionary new product, RiposteTrEx.

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Trans-Siberian Gold plc Asacha project update London: 8 August 2011 - Trans-Siberian Gold plc ("TSG" or "the Company") (TSG.L) is pleased to report the start of the commissioning process of the Asacha gold plant. The site's power unit, consisting of 4 diesel generators with a total capacity of 4 megawatts, was successfully launched, with the gold plant and other facilities being switched to the permanent power supply. Final testing of the mills, which is being supervised by the manufacturer, is nearly complete. Other mechanical equipment has been checked. Hydraulic tests of the plant equipment and piping are expected to be finished within 5-6 days. After that, tests of the plant equipment with waste rock and low grade ore will be undertaken. The works at the underground mine continue as planned. In June and July 671 metres and 6,445 m3 of mine development were completed. The ore stockpile ready for processing now amounts to more than 73,000 tonnes with an average grade of about 9 g/t. The Company confirms that it currently remains on track for the start of gold production later this month.

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Simon McGivern, CEO of Ila, commented: "This major order, our largest from a single customer, is from a household name with global reach. We hope this will be first of many such orders, the fulfillment of which will be helped by the recently secured working capital. It is a testament to Ila's progress that we received such strong support from shareholders, both existing and new, for this fundraising, despite the current adverse stock market conditions. We continue to expect sales growth for the following 12 months to be significantly stronger than previously forecast, and as a consequence expect to reach breakeven earlier than previously predicted.

Trading update and successful fundraising · Major contract win from multi-national blue-chip customer · Over $800k of orders received in the last 8 weeks, the largest yet from a single customer · Fully-subscribed equity fundraising of £1.55m to fund continued rapid growth Ila (AIM: ILA), the UK based international marketing and distribution specialist, is pleased to announce that it has received significant orders from a major new multi-national client totalling over US$800,000. Further orders are expected over the next three months from this blue-chip customer. Of particular significance is that the orders are for products manufactured by Ila's recently acquired subsidiary, Premium Factory, reflecting the rapid turnaround and integration of the company since acquisition. Ila now has a strong pipeline of sales which include those announced recently ($365,000 to Austria/Germany and $445,000 from Elkjop in Norway), which will underpin the company's rapid development. Ila (AIM: ILA) is also pleased to announce a the completion of a share placing of 129,166,660 Ordinary Shares at a price of 1.2 pence per share to raise £1.55m. The proceeds of the placing will be used to provide the Company with further working capital which will enable it to fulfill current orders and future growth.

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George Bennett, MDM Executive Director said: "MDM is thrilled to be working on the Bulyanhulu gold project in Tanzania. MDM will be able to bring the experience of the team's 35 gold plants designed and built across Africa, including 2 x 650k tpm tailings plants built in the last 3 years. We look forward to a long working relationship with African Barrick Gold."

MDM is awarded the feasibility study for African Barrick's Bulyanhulu project MDM Engineering Group Limited ("MDM") is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the feasibility study ("FS") for a 2.4 million tonnes per annum ("mtpa") CIL gold plant to treat reclaimed tailings and current flotation rougher tailings for African Barrick Gold's ("ABG") Bulyanhulu Gold Mine in Tanzania. ABG is the largest gold producer in Tanzania with a portfolio of four operating mines and is the operator and manager of Bulyanhulu Gold Mine, which is wholly owned by Bulyanhulu Gold Mine Limited, a 100% owned subsidiary of ABG. A concentrator plant has been in operation at Bulyanhulu since commissioning in 2001. During 2010 ABG completed a scoping study to determine the technical and economic viability of reclaiming and processing the stored tailings for recovery of gold. As a result of these in-house studies ABG now wishes to undertake a FS for a new CIL facility to process tailings reclaimed from the historical tailings at a rate of 1.4 mtpa concurrently with current flotation tailings at a rate of 1 mtpa. The new plant total throughput will thus be 2.4 mtpa.

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International Ferro Metals Limited ("IFL" or the "Company") Operational Update - Furnace Roof Upgrade and Sky Chrome Following its IMS and Production Report issued on 19 July, IFL provides the following update to the market regarding its furnace roof upgrade project and mining at Sky Chrome. Installation of the first furnace roof was completed, and the Company switched in the furnace successfully on 30 July 2011. The furnace is expected to ramp up to full production from mid-September as previously announced. The roof upgrade has been completed on time and within budget. The second furnace roof upgrade is progressing to plan with switch-in expected in early September and ramp-up to full production from mid-October. In a further update to the 19 July IMS and production report, the first delivery of ore has been received at the IFL plant from the new mining operations at Sky Chrome.

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The Joint Venture, comprising GGG and Auzex, is pleased to announce that after a geostatistical review of the new drill data from the Bullabulling Gold Project, using the conditional simulation technique, the drill density required to classify the resource estimate into the Indicated category has been increased to 75m north-south and 35m east-west (from the original 50m north-south and 25m east-west spacing). The widening of the drill spacing will reduce both the timeline and cost to complete the current infill drilling programme along the Bullabulling Trend and confirms Bullabulling as having consistent and highly predictable mineralisation. A revised plan and budget has been completed for infill drilling remaining between Gryphon in the south to Bonecrusher in the north, which is a strike length of more than eight kilometres. There is now less than 45,000m of infill drilling required to convert the Inferred resources to Indicated resources. That infill drilling should be finished by the end of 2011. Drilling from early August to the end of September will be dedicated to drilling the remaining areas between Bacchus, Titan, Phoenix and Hobbit. Drilling of the Dickson's to Bonecrusher area should be completed by late November. A new resource estimate will be completed once this phase of drilling has been completed. The drill spacing study has delayed the finalising of the classification of the new resource estimate. The new resource estimate is currently being reviewed to reclassify the estimate using the wider drill spacing, which will increase the number of ounces in the Indicated category.

GGG Resources Plc Bullabulling Update 8 August 2011 Bullabulling Gold Project: Bullabulling Drill Parameters Agreed Highlights * The JV partners have agreed with the resource consultants the required drill spacing to define JORC Indicated resources. * Indicated JORC spacing is set at 75m North-South by 35m East-West. * Confirms Bullabulling mineralised zones as unusually continuous and readily predictable. * Phase 2 infill drilling now underway will be done using the wider drill spacing with 25,000+m already completed. * Less than 45,000 metres of infill drilling are now required to convert the resource at the Bullabulling Gold Project to the Indicated category. * The Infill drilling programme will now have a reduced cost and take less time to complete, releasing drill rigs to accelerate the exploration programme. * The substantial historic drilling data acquired on acquisition has now been significantly duplicated and will now only be used as a supplement to future JORC resource estimates. * The current JORC resource estimate is in the process of being finalised pending sign off by the resource consultants.

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