Down the list, iconic cooker maker AGA Rangemaster edged down 2p at 118p, despite reporting a small profit for 2009, adding that markets improved as the year progressed.

Climate Exchange, the exchange for trading emissions and environmental products, jumped 35.75p at 510p when it said it made a pro-forma pretax profit of £6.8m in the year to end-December 2009, up from £2.8m the prior year.

Regent Street department store Liberty climbed 20p to 295p when it confirmed it has received approaches which may or may not lead to an offer. Story provided by Business Financial Newswire