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Has come along way from its highs - surely there must be some readjustment here and a good 10-15% potential rise in SP

Chris Moore, Chief Executive Officer, commented: "This is a great opportunity for us to further increase the scale of our operation and develop our business in one of the largest economies in the world. The German pizza market represents a particularly fertile ground for Domino's with a limited number of relatively small players and no established international pizza delivery brand. "The German business will be headed up by Patricia Thomas, our former operations director, who took up a new role of international development director at the beginning of the year. She will be building a team to be based in Germany, drawn from the current German operation, strengthened with resources from the UK and others involved in Domino's markets worldwide. The continued involvement of Grand City Hotels also brings considerable knowledge of the German market combined with a wealth of resources, particularly with respect to property acquisition. "This exciting move into a new territory gives us access to the potential opportunity of 2,000 stores servicing around 150 million people in two of the world's leading economies. We will continue to do what we do best - make great quality pizzas, delivered with great customer service and marketed in interesting and innovative ways."

International Expansion Domino's Pizza UK & IRL plc ("Domino's" or "the Company"), the leading pizza delivery company in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, today announces the acquisition of 75 per cent of Intergrowth Enterprises Limited ("Domino's Germany"), the master franchisee for Domino's Pizza in Germany (the "Transaction"). The other 25 per cent will be retained by the vendor Briskas Ltd ("Briskas"), an affiliate of Grand City Hotels Group, the second largest hotel operator in Germany, with over 100 hotels in Europe.

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Indonesia South Sebuku-2 appraisal well, Bengara-1 PSC The HPS-1 land rig that will be used to drill the South Sebuku-2 well ("SS-2") has commenced mobilisation to the well site. The SS-2 well is expected to spud in mid-May. SS-2 is appraising the South Sebuku gas discovery made in 2009 that is thought to contain gross mean contingent resources of 80 Bcf. Salamander has a 41% interest in the Bengara-1 PSC.

Drilling Update Salamander Energy plc provides the following update on its current drilling operations in Thailand and Indonesia. Thailand Dao Ruang-3 well, Block L15/50 The Dao Ruang-3 appraisal well has spudded and will be drilled to a planned depth of 1,900 m TVDSS using the MB Century-26 rig. The well is forecast to take 45 days to drill on a dry hole basis. Salamander has a 50% interest in, and is operator of, Block L15/50. Block B8/38 The Ocean Sovereign rig is back on location at the Bualuang Alpha wellhead platform and has resumed drilling operations. Salamander has a 100% interest in, and operatorship of, Block B8/38.

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Chairman Philip Rogerson will announce at today's AGM that he intends to retire from the Board of Aggreko in 12 months' time, at the 2012 AGM, at which point he will have served for 15 years on the Board and 10 years as Chairman. He will be succeeded as Chairman by Ken Hanna, who joined the Board as an independent non-executive director in October 2010 and is currently Chairman of Inchcape plc and a non-executive director of Tesco plc. Philip Rogerson said: "Although I greatly enjoy my role with Aggreko, I believe that there comes a time when a change of leadership is appropriate. We have chosen to announce this change now in the interests of ensuring an effective and transparent process of succession." Current Outlook The strong start seen in the Local business is encouraging, but as always the performance for the year as a whole will be heavily dependent on trading during the summer months. Despite political instability in a number of our markets, International Power Projects has also had a good first quarter; in the light of the strong order intake in recent months, and the healthy pipeline of enquiries, we plan to increase the rate of our fleet capital expenditure in the second half by about £70 million, and to spend around £390 million across the Group as a whole during 2011. As a result of movements in the US Dollar : Sterling rate, we are now applying a rate of 1.60 to our forecasts for 2011, rather than 1.56 used at the time of our 2010 results announcement. The impact of this is to reduce anticipated full year trading profits by around £7.5 million. Despite this adverse exchange rate movement, we now expect trading profit for the year to be slightly ahead of 2010, which would represent underlying growth in constant currency of around 20%.

Financial position Largely as a result of increased rates of capital investment, net debt at £195 million has increased by £63 million in the three months to 31 March 2011 and compares to net debt of £163 million at 31 March 2010. During the first quarter we completed and drew down the funds on a £177 million private placement which, together with our recently refinanced bank facilities, give us total facilities of £762 million which is ample to finance the current needs of the business. As announced at the time of our 2010 results, we are proposing a return of capital to ordinary shareholders of approximately £150 million which, subject to shareholder approval, is expected to be paid in July 2011.

Trading The business has had a strong start to the year. Group revenues in the three months to 31 March 2011 grew by 9%; excluding the revenues from major events (Vancouver Winter Olympics, FIFA World Cup and Asian Games), this represents 18% underlying growth in constant currency and excluding pass-through fuel. International Power Projects revenues grew 19% in constant currency and excluding pass-through fuel. Order intake in the first quarter of 280 MW was very encouraging, with notable orders signed in the Bahamas, Argentina, Oman and Indonesia; in addition, as previously announced, we recently signed a Letter of Intent with Tokyo Electric Power Company for the supply of 200 MW of emergency power for a minimum period of a year. This Letter of Intent has now been converted into a signed contract with an estimated value of around $100 million. Average MW on rent in the quarter was 18% higher than the prior year, and the low levels of off-hires seen in the last quarter of 2010 continued into the first quarter of 2011. Trading margin ran at a similar level to that achieved in the full year in 2010. Local business revenues in the first quarter in constant currency were at similar levels to the prior year, but grew 18% on an underlying basis (i.e. in constant currency and excluding the revenues generated from the major events noted above). Revenues in our North American business in the first quarter were up 33% on an underlying basis, maintaining the strong momentum with which we finished 2010. Revenues in Europe and the Middle East grew by 4%. Aggreko International's Local business performed very strongly with underlying revenues growing by 29% with all areas performing well; our Australian business in particular had a very strong first quarter. We made good progress against our strategy to increase the reach of our Local businesses, opening new service centres in Durban, Lima and Delhi; as previously announced, we also completed the acquisition of NZ Generators Limited in New Zealand. On an underlying basis, margins in the Local business overall were similar to the same period in the prior year.

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Good progress and reducing loss - growth continues

Commenting on the results, Mike Hickey, CEO of Wolfson, said: "The growth momentum we achieved last year has continued into the first quarter of 2011 with revenues up 44% year-on-year. We are also pleased to report that last year's record design-in performance has continued with over 100 new design-in successes during the quarter. "Our audio solutions are being increasingly adopted by existing and new customers in mobile phones, particularly smartphones, tablet PCs and gaming, driving excellent growth across these applications. "Despite the first half impact of slower than expected end product sell-through at a major customer, previously reported design-ins are now transitioning to volume production and these should drive strong revenue growth in 2011, particularly in the second half of the year."

Outlook for Q2 2011 · Wolfson anticipates further year-on-year growth in the second quarter of 2011, helped by broader market penetration but moderated by lower than anticipated end product sell-through at a major customer during Q1 and Q2 2011. With a degree of uncertainty surrounding the timing of end-customers' new product ramps and with the ongoing situation in Japan in mind, the Company expects revenues to be in the range of $37m - $45m · Despite the above, as previously reported design-ins translate to revenue, the Company continues to expect strong year-on-year growth, particularly in the second half of 2011 · Gross margin is expected to be around 47% for Q2 2011, increasing to around 50% for the full year

First quarter operational summary: · 2010 revenue growth momentum continues with revenues up 44%. Sales more than doubled year-on-year in mobile phones, particularly smartphones, gaming, eBooks and PC/tablets · Industry trends towards dis-integration of the audio function and opening up of digital signal processors (DSP) for audio enhancements ideally suit Wolfson's Audio Hubs. This is helping to support strong design-in momentum with over 100 new design-ins, at both existing and new customers, in the quarter · Market penetration with existing customers continues to progress with notable new Wolfson product adoptions in the quarter that include: o LG selected Wolfson audio solutions for its G-Slate tablet PC, multiple mobile phones including the Optimus 2X smartphone, the Optimus Mach, Black and 7, and its 4G LTE phone, Thrill o Samsung selected Wolfson Audio Hubs for multiple new Galaxy S models, including the Google Nexus S, its Wave 2 smartphone platform, one of its next generation Galaxy S2 platforms, its latest tablet PC products and its 4G LTE phone, the Galaxy S Vibrant o A major global Japanese consumer electronics brand selected Wolfson's Audio Hubs for its new portable gaming console and its new tablet PCs · Encouragingly, and further increasing market penetration, new customers are also adopting Wolfson products. Notable additions in the quarter include: o Research in Motion (RIM) has selected a Wolfson Audio Hub for the recently launched BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC o A major global consumer electronics brand has selected Wolfson's Audio Hubs for its recently introduced range of smartphones and tablet PCs o ZTE has selected Wolfson's Audio Hubs, with the first product being its new tablet PC o A Japanese mobile phone manufacturer has selected Wolfson's fully programmable standalone audio Digital Signal Processor (DSP) for a selection of its new mobile phone platforms o A major mobile phone manufacturer has selected Wolfson's MEMS microphones · Wolfson's Ambient Noise Cancellation (ANC) headset is now available for sale in shops and online. In addition, the headset has been certified by Skype and will be available in Skype's online store in Q2 2011 · Product development performance has been maintained with the launch of seven new products · As anticipated, cash reduced in Q1 2011 as working capital increased. Cash expected to return to towards 2011 opening position by year end

Wolfson Microelectronics plc ("Wolfson" or "the Company"), a leading supplier of mixed-signal semiconductors for consumer electronic products, announces its financial results for the first quarter ended 3 April 2011. First quarter financial summary: · Revenues up 44% to $41.1m (Q1 2010: $28.5m) · Gross margin of 47.1% (Q1 2010: 51.5%) · Underlying* operating loss reduced to $0.9m (Q1 2010: $4.9m loss) · Operating loss reduced to $3.4m (Q1 2010: $7.1m loss)

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Adil Tastanov, Chief Operating Officer of Frontier, commented: "I am pleased to announce we have restarted operations at Koskuduk ahead of schedule. The target for this year is 6,000 ounces of gold with silver equivalents and we are on track to achieve this."

Frontier Mining Ltd ("Frontier" or the "Company") 2011 Mining Operations start at Koskuduk Frontier Mining Ltd (AIM: FML), the AIM listed gold and copper exploration and development company focused on Kazakhstan, announces that the Company has re-commenced mining and crushing operations at its Koskuduk deposit for 2011. Koskuduk mining operations close down at the end of November for the winter period and restart in early May each year. This year the mine has reopened a week early as a result of good weather. The first gold pour has been achieved from previously stacked ore and consisted of 286 ounces of Gold (Au) and 1,260 ounces of Silver (Ag).