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And for those of you who live between Nottingham and Sheffield will know: ..... check the Arup webside on M1 widening. Note how much is being spent (3 billion) on this project if you think the country is stagnating (although G.B. has done his best to C**K it up with his beligerant use of the phrase 'end of boom and bust' and the word 'sustainable' while knowing full well that most were using plastic for their apparent new-found affluence). "We used GIS to prepare and manage a consultation strategy for this £3 billion project in the East Midlands" Again, Breedon Quarry is 5 minutes drive by lorry from the M1 motorway - the busiest in Britain. Strategically well-placed!

.... but not in the second half of 2008! It was a 'STAND CLEAR' 6 months, as the cardiac doctor would say! That's why share price recoveries now are so astronomical - the market panic was almost totally indiscriminate (apart from for oil majors). Even these suffered a bit, when the price started to drop, but then recovered, when the price dropped further. Where's the rationality in that? Only in the last two days has reality kicked in with these!

Not really. This one is a difficult call as one might presume that Oilexco have made a number of big boobs in the North Sea. There are a lot of players in UK waters tinkering with small fields that are fault-bounded and therefore can have leaked dry millions of years ago. Deeper waters in the N. part of the North Sea basin still have much to reveal, in terms of oil and gas. There is still a lot to be explored but it is pricey and there is no guarantee until you have drilled several times and tested the holes. It is a risky and very high cost business, costing several million per exploration hole in medium to deep water. It all depends really on the parent company's intended direction from here. Perhaps they have plans or perhaps they are waiting for the dust to settle and oil to creep up. I made small profit on them but since then have pulled out.

Don't worry about the bid price pegging back. It's just the brokers playing around. I am confident the price will go up next week.

I'm sticking. they will probably be the week's second-biggest climber, if the price holds. It is a toss up between them and Uniq at the mo. on my radar. Therefore, it should get spotted and perhaps a little mor enthusiasm will follow.

Correction: 'Governs' rather than controls. There is only one time when a share price is controlled - when a company is bought out!

No. What controls a share price is mega-complicated. Price can sometimes go up on buys alone, but is can also go up because of 'real news' or broker 'upgrade' or simply on market sentiment, and trigger sales either automatically or when people spot the movement. That often means the price drops a bit (which is what happened here). however, if the brokers and company are confident, and they know they have more good news, it will recover. I seldom pay much attention to buys and sells as a barometer for movement. I take most other real (o potential) factors, as I perceive them, into account though. The exception on the buys side is ramped shares, which tend to react more directly to day trading.

No I don't but thanks. I shall investigate some time. I have a composite investigation technique which seems to work at the present. I was away working last year, took my eye off the ball in the jungle (with all the leaves and often being out of internet range) and lost over 50 grand as a result (on long-term (>60 year holdings), so that diluted my earnings for the year somewhat! P.S. - I am not over 60!

Back to c. 18 p by day end. Then a rise next week, of some description.

FROM APRIL 08 CLIPPER ENTERS FINANCIAL AND STRATEGIC RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE EQUITY PARTNERS, JP MORGAN CHASE'S PRIVATE EQUITY ARM • One Equity Partners to invest US$150 million into Clipper Windpower • One Equity endorses Clipper's next phase operational plan o Concentration on wind turbine business and Clipper's innovative 2.5MW Liberty Turbine o Focus operations on delivering on Clipper's firm customer order book • Companies to cooperate in strengthening Clipper's supply chain • Creation of committee to guide Clipper's business expansion • One Equity to nominate two representatives to Clipper's Board of Directors

LONDON, Dec 8 (Reuters) Clipper Windpower Plc plans to build in Britain offshore wind turbines with the biggest capacity available to meet demand from a boom in North Sea wind farms. Jim Dehlsen, chairman of the London-listed, U.S.-based company, told Reuters it will set up a factory in northern England, which would have an annual capacity to manufacture about 200 turbines by 2014-2015. Clipper has already begun engineering work on parts for a 10-megawatt offshore turbine in the north England town of Blyth, and plans its production in 2012. Some key components were already being tested. The company, with headquarters in California, sees a bigger market for its new turbine in the North Sea, but hopes demand for its offshore turbines will grow in the United States later. "We will start in the UK first ... offshore wind resources are one of the largest in Europe," Dehlsen said. " We expect the U.S. market will also be viable in that time frame.

Just bought 20,000 at a very low price (14.25). I have confidence, as most of the sales I suspect are baleouts from private investors watching teletext.

Avacta, the diagnostics specialist, climb 16.7 percent to 2.9 pence on news the company has launched an all-share bid for Curidium Medical , with Daniel Stewart keeping its 'buy' rating and 5 pence target price. 'Combined, the business looks to be a much stronger entity,' says Justin Bates, analyst at Daniel Stewart, says in a note. The intention is to create a stronger diagnostics business that brings Avacta's revenue generating contract services business, together with the imminent launch of two of its products (Optim & MIDAS), plus Curidium's development expertise of diagnostic tests,' Bates says. For more double click on Reuters Messaging rm://david.brett.reuters.com@reuters.net

Advice is difficult to give. I have a large holding, bought small initially then big when they were at 0.35. I am therefore sitting on about even stevens at the mo. if I sold. However, I am not buying more because I don't know what pushing up the price. The Enn directors are very quiet, and I have no knowledge other than what I see around the area and have seen more Enn lorries on the roads in the last 6 months than I ever have. All I know therefore is that they are still selling, but then there are quite a few major construction projects in the East Midlands, and lots of farmers spending their newly-acquired wealth on hard-standing. Who knows ... they might go bust, but if they don't they will gain massively.

It seems to be settling at 15.5/16. Should go up again from here.

There aren't enough buyers yet.

Is there a big buy about to come in, or are they expecting a deluge of small ones? If so both B and S will jump.

50% of my holding stop lossed in at 18 p. Are dropping a bit.

Now there we are. The very successful and privately-owned Donington Park guys can buy ENN. They will then have their own supply of aggregates. Not sure if the Carb. limestone underlies the circuit - heavy normal faulting around there, and I don't have the geol map for the area. Only joking!

On UEN easy to do. I nearly bought back in (for the fifth time) but held back and only suffered on a token 10,000 shares left in. However, I doubt if they will go bust in the short or medium term. Uniq's rise is now posted on Teletext 513, which may attract interest. However, when people are so cash-strapped it doesn't always work that way, so rises may also be followed with profit-taking - at least by private investors. Uniq is a very sound business though..