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[effortless cool] 08/2/2017 14:28

No offence taken .... and the header had got too long.

[blackbear] 08/2/2017 12:55

still no sellers, 35p by Friday.

[bones] 07/2/2017 15:50

Long live the guff!

[rhomboid] 07/2/2017 15:38

EC your guff is of a very informative nature , the more you guff the better imho

[greenroom78] 07/2/2017 15:33

EC - I found your guff useful fairly recently too.

[effortless cool] 07/2/2017 12:52

Thanks, Bones, I'm glad someone appreciates me!

[bones] 07/2/2017 12:48

EC, for the record I found your "guff" in the header to be a very useful intro to the company when I was first considering an investment here last October. It was a dispassionate analysis that helped me weigh up the development and the turnaround merits.

[effortless cool] 07/2/2017 11:25

In deference to QS99's aversion to "guff", I have transferred some of the older forecast updates in the header to post #2.

[qs99] 07/2/2017 10:45

ta! still a bit of shame having all that guff up there....but thanks not seen that button before....doh...! hehe

[blackbear] 07/2/2017 10:37

click on skip header buddy.

[qs99] 07/2/2017 09:57

yup, edging up nicely....wish someone would edit all the words above, takes a day and a half to scroll down to the posts!

[rivaldo] 07/2/2017 09:17

Good to see a 15k buy just reported at 28.61p, nicely above the published 28.5p offer price. Keen.

[qs99] 06/2/2017 15:39

shame mate, but still below 30p and good strength today, I managed to top up but at around 27-28p....let's see how it unfolds but looks like seller now cleared and we are in run up to full year IMO...DYOR and gla

[greenroom78] 06/2/2017 15:35

Agreed, annoying though as they didn't fill my top up order at 26p this morning.

Proves it is one you have to buy when there is a seller around.

[qs99] 06/2/2017 15:26

that is more like it....

[bones] 06/2/2017 12:20

That's interesting, dealit. I hope you did not suffer too many hardships at the time.

[qs99] 06/2/2017 12:16

at last the blue returns...gla

[dealit] 05/2/2017 20:27

Yes "bones" I remember it well I was a timed served Compositor at the time. I loved the job but you cannot stop progress.

[bones] 05/2/2017 16:50

Rivaldo, that dispute reminds me of the 1980's print union disputes but there was only going to be one winner in the long run - TECHNOLOGY!

There you had the typesetters, a skilled workforce but becoming outmoded by the emergence of the computer-generated newsprint capability.

Here you have digital imagery being readily and cheaply available to keep an all-seeing eye on the operation of transport.

In both cases, you have the eternal battle between human resources and social equality on the one hand and "job-destroying" technological advances on the other.

The 1980's print battle was laced with politics however at a time of acute ideological change at the cusp of an industrial shift from labour to capital. This article from last month's Independent is a fabulous read, especially for those that lived through it (apart from maybe those losing jobs). Well worth a read, not only as a historical document, but as there is some relevance to the rail industry vis-a-vis the Southern dispute:

[rivaldo] 05/2/2017 11:14

The Southern Trains rail strike dispute with ASLEF has been settled in the last couple of days. I note that upgrades to CCTV are part of the deal:



"The deal agreed by Aslef is understood to include upgrades to CCTV in drivers’ cabs...."

It so happens that PEG supplied previous CCTV systems to Southern in 2013...which suggests more work coming PEG's way:

[blackbear] 03/2/2017 16:05

I'm expecting 35p before final results, in around 6 weeks or so.

[rivaldo] 03/2/2017 15:30

Hopefully a quick bounce to 30p coming.

[noujay] 03/2/2017 12:05

Seems to be tightly held with very small volumes jangling the price about