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I nearly choked on my tea... and then saw it was a poncy buy of £90.

Unfortunately, the black cat seems to have walked under the ladder.

£200k gross = circa £180k net; which equals 31.8% of reorganised capital.

Val of VAL = 180/0.31.8 = £556k

I will leave it to shareholders to add their expletives.

kenny100,

Farmland is exempt from inheritance tax - he has been buying the land as a tax dodge. It prices actual farmers out of the market - maybe COVID will change the way our society operates and values the work done by some of our lowest paid citizens.

An unusual but plausible partial explanation.

'Elderly people and those with chronic diseases who were spared death by the flu from November through January then became an outsize target for the new virus in February and March.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/italy-s-mild-flu-season-may-solve-mystery-of-coronavirus-deaths?srnd=premium-europe

The RNS was perfectly timed. No doubt there may be a few sellers in the morning but I would expect those who still believe (or who have been watching from the sidelines) will snap up what they consider to be bargains, especially if they have spare ISA firepower. This could stabilise the share price and give hope for the next ISA season.

Then those who have been considering investing some or all of the next years ISA allowance may well consider the share price support significant and decide they need to press the buy button next week before the price increases (which will inevitably increase the share price).

Good luck to those still onboard, or boarding, the 'good ship' SS Gusher.

If I was paid £2k EVERY DAY you could write anything about me you wanted - it is easy to have thick skin on those 'wages'.

If I was paid £2k EVERY DAY you could write anything about me you wanted - it is easy to have thick skin on those 'wages'.

But if you take costs at $15 per barrel then about 490 tankers.

Well, SS can certainly afford some new pants. £310k bonus; total remuneration £776k.

Good stuff (at least for him).

Another example of the competence of our Government - Zoom does not support end-to-end encryption - careless?

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/

'But when reached for comment about whether video meetings are actually end-to-end encrypted, a Zoom spokesperson wrote, “Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption for Zoom video meetings. Zoom video meetings use a combination of TCP and UDP. TCP connections are made using TLS and UDP connections are encrypted with AES using a key negotiated over a TLS connection.”

The encryption that Zoom uses to protect meetings is TLS, the same technology that web servers use to secure HTTPS websites. This means that the connection between the Zoom app running on a user’s computer or phone and Zoom’s server is encrypted in the same way the connection between your web browser and this article (on https://theintercept.com) is encrypted. This is known as transport encryption, which is different from end-to-end encryption because the Zoom service itself can access the unencrypted video and audio content of Zoom meetings. So when you have a Zoom meeting, the video and audio content will stay private from anyone spying on your Wi-Fi, but it won’t stay private from the company. (In a statement, Zoom said it does not directly access, mine, or sell user data; more below.)'

I thought that herd immunity had been ditched - are you suggesting that exposing support staff is a good idea?

'there is no one is expert at this'

Whilst I agree, those who moved to cash quick enough have immunised themselves from the ongoing market meltdown. Some economists are suggesting that this depression will make the Great Slump look like good times. Many weak businesses (including banks) will not survive under the same ownership.

Your link had a lot of detail about particle sizes - the Nightingale Hospitals are preparing mass wards; trapping and removing airborne particles from the environment safely will be critical and I expect that they will have had insufficient time to install negative air pressure systems.

It means that the support staff not on the wards will be exposed to the virus as air (and the associated droplets) will circulate throughout the facility.

Nice for some - most PIs have to pay over 0.004

Bermudashorts,

I suppose it is like expecting the Nightingale Hospitals to have negative air pressure on the mass wards...

Well done to the brave who are holding through thick and thin...

An interesting take on statements made by our Government:

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-30-coronavirus-fake-news-how-the-british-government-misled-the-public-for-weeks/

'I trust UK GOV............... Doing a great job....'

Kenny, I used to work for them in a role reporting to Downing Street during the last recession. Your trust is misplaced.

It is one of the few scars that I am happy to have...