Hi All,

Anyone heard any rumours about Base Group ????

All I know is, that the price went up 86% last week, as one buyer (Crispin Barker - see below !) increased his holding by 8,000,000 shares, to give him 54,750,000, or 6.5% of the company, which is just a cash shell, looking for aquisitions for a reverse takeover. Today the price dropped, and it was ALL buys, 6.2m in total, so I reckon he has bought more, wait for an RNS to show it I reckon.

Crispin Barker is connected to Civilian Content, check out their recent RNS's ....

http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=news&cb=1124819100&symbol=L%5ECCN


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117876399?categoryid=1246&cs=1
Artists Independent Network, the London- and New York-based production/management shingleshingle run by Charles FinchCharles Finch and Luc Roeg, is seeking a merger with Civilian Content, the publicly-listed parent of U.K. lottery franchise The Film Consortium and sales company The Works.
The move has the support of Richard Thompson, Civilian's founder and largest shareholder with 25%.

AIN has lodged a bid to buy the 22.5% stake owned by Crispin Barker, offering a premium upon the current $1.1 million market value of his stock. The deal is contingent upon the Civilian board agreeing the merger, due diligence on both sides and a vote by all Civilian's shareholders.


More ....
Civilian Content buys 5.92 pct stake in aim-listed invstment vehicle Motive TV

LONDON (AFX) - Civilian Content PLC said it has acquired a 5.92 pct stake in
Motive Television PLC, the AIM-listed television investment vehicle headed by
ex-Chrysalis industry veteran, Mick Pilsworth.
Motive TV was established in May 2005 to acquire television production and
licensing businesses in the UK, following recent favourable regulatory changes
in the television market.
Civilian chief executive Chris Auty said: "This is a strategic investment
for the company as we look to further diversify our interests. Recent changes to
the regulatory framework governing terms of trade in the TV sector are clearly
favourable to the production sector, particularly in drama and series." Civilian
Content specialises in film production, finance, UK distribution and
international sales.



Also what could be in store here ????
Civilian Content PLC
03 August 2005


Civilian Content plc


Change of Name


Following the company's recent announcement that it had launched a new
distribution business 'The Works UK Distribution Limited', and with its other
major subsidiary being 'The Works International Sales Company', the Board of
Civilian Content PLC has decided to change the group's name to more fully
reflect its trading names.


Therefore it is proposed to change the name of the group to 'The Works Media
Group PLC'. The previously agreed name change 'Civilian Group PLC' will not be
pursued.


This change of name will be proposed at an Extraordinary General Meeting to be
held on Friday 26th August at the offices of KBC Peel Hunt's offices, notice of
which is being sent to shareholders today and copies of which can be obtained
from the offices of KBC Peel Hunt at 111 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1PH.






These companies and people are new to me, so does anyone know what the plan might be, and if it's worth a punt ????

Cheers,
PM

q

Buys still drifting in, more pressure on Crispin to show his hand, LOL !

I wonder if we will see another rise after USA opening time ????

Cheers,
PM

plenty of buys today wounder why price drop earlier
cheers AUTO

Auto Hi,

Maybe they discovered what we did yesterday, there isn't any stock left to buy !

If it's a tree shake to get some back, it's not working very well .... LOL !

Cheers,
PM

hI/ Paul
well a nice blue day with base , same on Tuesday and we might (should )see a price move north, can't see why it didn't today ?perhaps i'm being greedy, as somebody used to say we shall see
cheers AUTO

Auto Hi,

Looks like it's me, you and Crispin here .... LOL !!!!

Actually I had a look on Bloomberg at shreholdings in BS, and Crispin has the third highest holding, and the Chairman has the 4th largest holding, Pershing Nominees have a big holding, but together, all those (who have declared !) holding more than 3% add up to over 50% of the stock !

There is definately something going on, and the current MCap is cheap for a shell, but Crispin is not buying stock in a shell company for the benefit of his health, nudge nudge, wink wink .... LOL !!!!

Have a good looooong weekend !

Watch out for YOO interims next week, Monday is the same date as last year. Also watch out for the EGM statement, and other possible RNS from SEO.

Cheers,
PM

Thanks paul!

-Doing very nicely with YOO and AEX at the mo. Not tempted by this one yet though.....looking to aquire stock in ULT when the time is right and adding to YOO if results as good as we expect. Also going to add to PDX on Tuesday.

Also watching closely...MTT, CRX and GFM.

If you've any spare time over the bank hols you might take a look at these? I would strongly recommend you look at PDX!

Would value your opinion.

HI/Paul
I will be having a long weekend, Grandchildren down on Saturday
i will be well cream crackered time they go home.(don't get old) . no spare cash to buy any more shares unless i sell some SEO or DGO and i really don't want to do that , these two are doing nicely, get 1p on base may sell them see how it goes
cheers AUTO

Hi All,

Here are a couple of other cash shells, compare them to Base Group, and then think about Crispin Barker accumulationg stock, do you think as I do, that BS will soon be worth 2-3 times what it is now ????

Cheers,
PM

Use the link 'click for fundamentals' from th top right of the compan info

CIH - Assets 1m cash - MCap 6.3m
http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=quote&btn=s_ok&symbol=LSE%3Acih&s_ok=OK&mid=1&period=5&reportbug_desc=

ADP - assets .7m (cash 290k) MCap 2.5m
http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=quote&btn=s_ok&symbol=LSE%3Aadp&s_ok=OK&mid=1&period=5&reportbug_desc=

BS. - Assets 250,000 (cash) MCap 0.9m
http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=quote&btn=s_ok&symbol=LSE%3Abs.&s_ok=OK&mid=1&period=5&reportbug_desc=

WTI - Assets 130,000 (cash) MCap 4m
http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=quote&btn=s_ok&symbol=LSE%3Abs.&s_ok=OK&mid=1&period=5&reportbug_desc=

VOS - Assets 250,000 (cash) MCap 11.69m
http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=quote&btn=s_ok&symbol=LSE%3Avos&s_ok=OK&mid=1&period=5&reportbug_desc=

Keep any eye on this one ....

Cheers,
PM

HI /Paul
any ideas about the 14,000,000,also the time of the trade , where would they be coming from?
cheers AUTO

Auto Hi,

There's a K (block trade) showing up on that date, on advfn trade history, maybe they cancelled it, and it's only just showing up ?

3 102R234B05 0.05 14473743 K 16:17:57 14,473,743

Cheers,
PM

thanks Paul

Hi all,

All trades at .001 are buys, I tried dummy buys and sells to check. Sells would go through at .0009

Cheers,
PM

I said it was coming, and Crispin Barker must know it's coming too :)

Base FY pretax loss narrows, sees acquisition for reverse takeover by
Christmas

LONDON (AFX) - Base Group PLC said it believes it will be able to announce
an acquisition before Christmas, as it announced its pretax loss in the year to
February narrowed to 153,000 stg from a loss of 1.32 mln.
The company, which has been seeking potential acquisitions for a reverse
takeover, needs to complete a takeover by April 1, 2006, otherwise it will be
delisted from the Alternative Investment Market.
It added that meanwhile, all executive and non-executive remuneration has
been deferred to minimise overhead costs.

Any drop and I will be adding to my 2.85m shares.

Cheers,
PM

As I said ....

767598 BestQuote Buy BS.L LSE BASE GRP. ORD 1P GBP 01/09/2005 12:42 - 0.00090 1,125,000 Executed with improved price of 0.00085
TOTAL IMPROVEMENT = 56.25

Now holding 3,975,000

Cheers,
PM

Here we go !

Check out the buying ....

Cheers,
PM

Check out the rise today on low volume .... it's about to happen :)

Cheers,
PM

Check it out, it's rising again, 2nd day in a row, something is definately brewing here .... NOW !

Cheers,
PM