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Vodafone, AT&T Wireless is reported to have asked rival bidders Vodafone and Cingular to sweeten offers worth about $35 billion sources familiar with talks sayCanary Wharf, Morgan Stanley may increase its bid to 293p

St Modwen property firm reported a 17% rise in annual profits and said the current financial year had started well. Annual profits came in at 35 million pounds from 30 million a year earlier within analysts expectations and the dividend is increased 16 percent to 6.6 pence.

Anglo Platinum profits fall 64%

Exel storage and logistics firm says it has reached an agreement to buy the logistics unit of Japanese electronics conglomerate Fujitsu to triple the size of its Japanese operations.

Compass Group the world's biggest catering firm, said it was on course to hit its annual targets with turnover up at least six percent this year and to improve like-for-like margins by 20-30 basis points

 SMP St Modwen Properties (F), eq group, Stream ITNET, Anglo Platinum, Hercules Property Services,

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Provisional Calendar For UK Equities  The Week Following  23rd Feb - 1st March

Anglo and Overseas Trust (F), Bunzl (F), Hemscott (F), Jardine Lloyd (F), National Express (F), Old Mutual (F), Pharmagene (F), Provalis (F), Scottish and Newcastle (F), SDL International (F), Stadium Group (F), Ultra Electronics (F), Wembley (F), Provalis (I), Reed Health (I), Ricardo Group (I), Electra Kingsway (AGM), Phytopharm (AGM), Raft International (AGM), Treatt (AGM), Gladstone (EGM)

Abbey National (F), Alliance UniChem (F), Amersham (F), Cookson (F), Croda (F), Dairy Farm International Holdings (F), Domino's Pizza (F), Kerry Group'a' (F), Molins (F), Prudential (F), Thorntons (F), Wembley (F), Wimpey (F), Xenova (F), Xstrata (F), Surface Transforms (I), Thorntons,  Brewin Dolphin (AGM), Tadpole Technology (AGM),  Berkeley Group (EGM)

Anglo American (F), Aviva (F), BBA Group (F), Domnick Hunter (F), Hardy Underwriting (F), HBOS (F), Isotron (F), Michael Page (F), Morse Holdings (F), Novar (F), Paddy Power (F), RAC (F), Reed Health (F), Spirent (F), TDG (F), Urbium (F), Wilson Bowden (F), Dickinson Legg (I), Isotron (I), Reed Health, Aukett Group (AGM), Capcon Holdings (AGM), Leeds Group (AGM), Aukett Group (EGM), OMG (EGM)

CBAE Systems (F), Belgravium Technologies (F), Capita Group (F), CryptoLogic Inc Com Shs NPV (F), Elementis (F), Estates and General (F), Hilton Group (F), MFI Furniture Group (F), National Express (F), Provident Financial (F), Rentokil Initial (F), Trinity Mirror (F), United Business Media (F), Domestic and General (I), Galliford Try (I), Ultimate Leisure Group (I), Wilmington Group (I), Cobra Bio-Manufacturing (AGM), M&G Income (AGM),

BInternational Power (F), Rank Group (F), WPP (F),  Games Workshop (I), Vernalis (I), Newsplayer (EGM)