Fair comment Harry. The spread is a real pain, but I expect to be in for the longer term, when hopefully the initial spread would not hurt so much. History fairly meaningless before transformational activity last year - with sales running this year at around 3 times current market cap (and new orders "generating healthy levels of contribution") I remain quietly confident, but always DYOR.

Solid results well received today and interim dividend for the first time. Prospects good, although still below my purchase price - but as one of the few speculative punts in my portfolio doing better than most at present!

Very good figures today and P/E now 4 at 36p. Debt still high, but rise attributable to exchange translation (most sales in US). Not so pleased that dividend omitted as a result, perhaps as a quid pro quo for enhanced bank facilities until 2013, but pleased to have averaged down on recent weakness. Even if difficult to deal (and recently gone on to PLUS as well as AIM) these remain imo a solid share for the medium term, but always DYOR.

Has quietly gone up 100% since May.
And the sales are slowly coming in.

http://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/88285-cps-deal-during-uk-china-trade-trip.html?news_section=5