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You've always had to have cash in your ISA before you could deal, and a lot of people with smaller investment pots use their ISA account rather than nominee...

Really pleased with the latest news. I am invested in both Luceco & EAAS and believe them to be excellent companies which will both benefit from this latest development. Out of the doldrums and soon not be underwater, maybe?!

It's not the media that delight in takeovers. Ever since Thatcher took it that British companies being bought out was an indication that we were "open for business" rather than idiots who don't appreciate the value of what is being lost, we have had Governments happy to wave through takeovers of brilliant British companies as if there will always be more brilliant companies to replace them... Privatised utilities now owned by foreign interests, fantastic private companies being taken over in hostile bids and despite having legislation that should enable Government to stop takeovers that are against our national interest the raids and losses to the UK continue...

I doubt that Labour will be taking over NWB, but I think they might just let it continue without selling it off & let the dividends roll in. We have the worst Government & the worst politicians that we've ever had - and that's saying a helluva lot!!

If anyone is local & can get along, this sounds interesting... Maritime Heritage Talk: The Future of Shipbuilding on the Torridge
Join us for the next in a series of talks curated by Way of The Wharves on local maritime history. Tom Hart, General Manager of Harland & Wolff shipyard in Appledore, will discuss the reopening of the shipyard in 2020 and their current projects. Doors open at 6.15pm. Advance booking recommended. Cost: £5 includes a drink. Thursday 9 March, 6.30-7.30pm.

If anyone is local & can get along, this sounds interesting... Maritime Heritage Talk: The Future of Shipbuilding on the Torridge
Join us for the next in a series of talks curated by Way of The Wharves on local maritime history. Tom Hart, General Manager of Harland & Wolff shipyard in Appledore, will discuss the reopening of the shipyard in 2020 and their current projects. Doors open at 6.15pm. Advance booking recommended. Cost: £5 includes a drink. Thursday 9 March, 6.30-7.30pm.

I was responding toTeletim post of 13.31

What are you talking about?? You're not local are you?

Hi saintly, glad to see we have a few good companies in common, and I so agree that they need and deserve to do better in 2023

We only got the ghastly Blair because of Thatcher. She actually said she was proud that she had changed the face of politics particularly in the transforming of Labour into New Labour. Macmillan was absolutely right to lambast Thatcher for selling off the family silver. I cannot see any politician currently in the House of Commons with the intelligence and common sense to get this country functioning properly. I was never sure whether Thatcher created the kind of society we have now or was just symptomatic of a fundamental change. Sadly, many people were born too late to know anything of this country prior to Thatcher. It's all ancient history to them.

Personally, I like both, though they have both suffered a bit recently - and so have I! But I'll hang in there with both & hope all comes right in time.

Mad economics surely? One arm (BoE) trying to dampen hings down, reduce inflation, drastic action contemplated to raise interest rates whilst other arm (Truss, Kwarteng) want to stimulate. No wonder the markets are in turmoil. What are these idiots playing at? Then we have the ghastly Rees-Mogg waving through any takeover of brilliant British companies (just like Kwartend did when he was Business). How did he get to be Chancellor. He's a disaster and Truss is delusional, it seems to me. Unjustifiable behaviour.

Can anyone tell me why some brokers say you can't hold BXP in an ISA? I'm with x-o (JIM) and hold BXP there but wondered if this will be stopped at some point? Is this what has caused the drop in BXP SP? I'd be grateful for any info/advice around this.

Hope that those who go to Investors Day will report back on here, as I'd be interested to hear about it. TBH I only invested when they took on Appledore and I am not as clued-up as I might be. Just disappointed when it closed down before and delighted that there was new ownership that would give the area some decent skilled employment opportunites. So they have a reserve of goodwill from me, which is just as well as the gap between cost of investing and current SP values is pretty wide!

I see that they have corrected date of JIM dividend payment now. Still sad that so much that HL used to have freely available is no longer available. As I said before, I do still use HL for Fund investments but use x-o for share dealing as that suits my style better.

I used to find HL info really good. Now they don't have broker forecasts any more, up-to-date and accurate dividend payments etc not as they once were. I still have a SIPP with them, but for share-dealing I've gone down-market, maybe, but find them extremely good for what I need x-o/JIM. Funny that HL have an incorrect dividend payment date for JIM... And there is still a considerable number of investors smarting over HL's support of he-who-may-not-be-named for far too long...

I have also held shares from demutualisation & haven't we suffered through all the chops & changes?! I'm in the process of transferring shares from Equiniti to JIM which will cost £15 rather than £50 and allow me to deal with my shares in any way I see fit rather than the sell all or hold options they offer. Spent ages on phone to Equiniti (many recorded msgs drive you crazy before you get a real person to request the right form). Love JIM, cheap (like me?!) contactable and an all round pleasure to deal with. Plus I have shares in JIM that have flourished & dividends too. So - holdings of abdn & Eqn big disappointments. Will hold on for now with abdn & glad that Eqn takeover is happening as they used to be good, but on latest showing no longer... so will just chalk up small loss on EQN to a grateful end.

I hold both APH & BXP. I'm looking at them both for LTH dividends. My own feeling is that the differential in pricing will continue so I don't expect some sudden explosion in BXP SP here. Will possibly add from time to time, just for the continuing dividend. Just a bonus if it does rise, but then less likely to be an add if it goes too high!

Just spent a good while on phone to find out charge for switching to another nominee account as I don't like the "take-it-or-leave-it" attitude of Equiniti - keep all or sell all, £50 for the privilege of a crap service! Form E will be posted to me & cost £15 to switch to JIM nominee account where I get flexibility and low charges & even told what I need to do to make the switch!! I guess the plummeting SP is people deciding abrdn & Equiniti are a nightmare & selling up in despair. I want to hold in the hope that abrdn get their corporate act together ...

Sadly we don't always get any say on getting bought out. I've been with other companies - only a small investor, but with conviction about good cos & wanting to keep them but e.g. ARM - I had no say & UK Govt never seems bothered at loss of good businesses. Hope we don't get sold out, but it has happened to me a few times now so I stay with this & hope for the best...