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Well say goodbye to your money then, as it's the boring circles, and research that helps identify winners in the market.

Sympathies, My average is just over 0.381p and I have 550,000 of these tickets, thank god I also invested in SLP at the same time to offset the losses. Still stings, and like yourself, very little faith that LC will turn this around now. Lessons learnt, it does what it says on the tin... Investment funds and risk spreading is the way forwards, it's safe and boring, but better than getting shafted....

God it's lonely on this board. Pleased to see the price rise here, suspect it will top out at around £21.50 - £22.00 just before the summer break, some good news from the CFO recently, so a lot of positives, and the dividend is still a good payout....

Erm 5p actually....

Firstly as a long term holder with a current significant loss, I think this is positive news. Getting out of coal is way overdue, as without the financial backup to develop even clean coal power generation, it's unlikely that anyone is going to JV or put significant funds in to new projects for what is perceived as a dirty fuel. What I would like to see if a credible plan for the new projects, along with a clear view of the Financial model. Sort of feels like the usual LC smoke and mirrors to be honest, so I don't hold out much hope, but the project itself seems to press the right buttons that might encourage some additional funding or JV to actually get it over the line.

Pretty hard to go in any other direction, having said the gravitational pull of LC's lead boots might just drag us down further in to the pit of despair, and a zero net value....

Been an Aviva investor for 9 years, and apart from the reasonable dividends the share price has been a disaster. My average is about 10% over todays price, so if it reaches those heights, I am out of here, and moving on to a broader investment policy, to be honest, I think I am getting out of individual shares and moving to investment trusts wholesale....

Other good dividend shares IMHO - NG (National Grid), REL (RELX group), CBG (Close Brothers Group). Might also suggest that each has a little bit of growth in them as well. As always DYOR but definitely worth a look if it's dividend return you are after. Other alternatives to spread any risk are obviously investment ISAs but you need to spend the time looking for the good ones, as there are some real dogs out there...

Been a while since I bought these at 10p a share, I am loving this level of growth, and all on my 19th Wedding anniversary as well, the missus will be happy! Top sliced this last year, and that's sitting in RR with a healthy profit as well. Did the planets align and I just didn't notice... £2.35 seems reasonable so tend to agree this has an upward trajectory to that point.

Craigy, As per Vascular's comment protect yourself. I was fortunate to have invested here in the early days so have made a healthy profit and now recovered my initial investment a couple of times over on the ups, and I have bought back on the downs. You should read up on the concept of top slicing. Investment in my view is all about protecting your capital, whist at the same time taking a reasonable profit (Multi baggers are relatively rare). The level of profit depends on the risk you are willing to take. I may well kick myself if ZOE does end up doing a "FeverTree", however at the moment I can sleep at night knowing my initial capital investment in ZOE is safely invested elsewhere (well as safe as my follow investment in IAG, and RR shares is), and everything I have retained in ZOE is now profit. DYOR, and read the advice that is out there on credible internet investment sites...

Hmm, a lot of buying today, but not a blip on the share price..... Really??!??!??!?

If it helps my son says he doesn't want his Isa pot, he wants to earn on his own.... If that's the case I will partying in Ibiza on his fun budget for a few summers!! Woop Woop!

Similarly topped up at todays low, in both my ISA, and my kids as well. Not too much, but enough to make a nice pot when the time comes... Good to see that it moved up. Lots of longer term value in this share, we do need a sales update sooner rather than later to prove out the various products.

Well ideally you should be trading in an ISA tax free. II.co.uk or Hargreaves Lansdowne wouldn't be a bad place to take a look.

Entitled to our opinion, but as an ex Transco employee and a Shareholder, I think we will agree to disagree. It was a bad move for both organisations. NG didn't know how to operate at scale, or what to do to develop the much more heavily regulated gas business, and tried to implement strategies to gain organisational synergies that would never have worked. When that failed they just sold off the gas businesses, and made several disastrous outsourcing moves for services that have cost a lot in the long term, and left their systems in an archaic state. Interestingly they now try and operate each business with separation, and may have learnt their lesson...

I think the changes actually make logical sense. It looks to me like Rhode Island was a bit of a swap for Western Power, and gut feel is that NG are looking to extend control over the end to end Electricity network so that they can better provision services to cater for changes in the market that will occur as the UK shifts to localised demand as a result of Electric vehicles local power provision etc. Looks like a good move to me, also the US is actually a larger proportion of the NG revenue and market, it's still a vast opportunity for any company with deep experience in Electricity distribution, so I think that you will see further acquisition and business growth there. I am a long term holder primarily for the dividends, and not looking to grow my share numbers here, but I think this move will allow NG to continue to grow revenue, and more importantly sustain their dividend payments... So a buy if you want a good dividend stream, maybe not a massive growth share...

Cool, definitely a fan of Renault, had a Clio Williams V6 for a couple of years until I had an argument with an oak tree, that I lost. Totally my own fault, nobody else to blame, I was completely gutted at the time, never know I might get another one if this gets to the levels that it promises. Looking at the current prices for a replacement Clio V6 these days, it needs to go some.......

Got to ask the question - What Van did you actually buy?

Watch out for the Hippos, and Crocodiles, they will steal your shares from right under your nose, and probably tear your arm off if your unlucky....

If you look on Google maps the Rufiji river still floweth like the proverbial torrent. Not a sign of a dam, a road, or any infrastructure apart from the odd Safari lodge... Smoke, and mirrors..... Just search for Stieglers Gorge Tanzania..... All total and utter bull testicles, they are never going to be able to fund or build it, but have ready power on their doorstep if they just took a pragmatic approach to coal, and the economic benefits it would bring them....