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easyJet, an European airline carrier, anticipates its first half financial performance for the year to go beyond the guidance set in its first quarter of the year.

A G Barr sees solid performance in UK soft drinks market; posts 6.2% rise in full year profits.

NEXT PLC, the Britain's second-largest clothing retailer, has delivered a solid performance in sales and profits combined with exceptional advances in earnings per share and dividends even in a difficult year.

Kingfisher, the home improvement retailer, has reported a rise of 3.3 percent in its sales for the FY 2011 on a constant currency basis and rose 3.6 percent to £10.8 billion on a reported rate basis sales.

Premier Oil, a leading FTSE 250 independent exploration and production company, has reported its record after-tax profits of US$171.2 million for the year ending December 31, 2011, up from US$129.8 million in 2010. Operating cash flows increased by 11.4 per cent to US$485.9 million, up from US$436.0 million in 2010.

Game Group announces that it no longer has any equity value with administration imminent.

Close Brothers Group, a specialist financial services company, has reported that its adjusted operating profits for the six months to 31 January, 2012 were broadly unchanged at £63 million due to the difficult economic and financial market uncertainty for securities.

Brady, a commodity risk management software provider, has reported a rise of 72 per cent in its full year revenue to £19.16 million, up from £11.12 million in 2010, including an increase in recurring revenues of 147 per cent to £9.79 million.

The pub group, JD Wetherspoon, has recorded a moderate growth for the first half of 2012 with an increase in sales of 8.4 percent, given the pressures on the UK consumer.

Aggreko, the leader in the supply of temporary power and temperature control equipment, has reported that its underlying group revenues increased 22% for the year ended December 31, 2011.

SThree, an international staffing business firm has reported that its first quarter gross profit rose 15 percent year on year to £47.7 million, up 12 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.

YouGov survey shows that most Britons do not think the Occupy London protests achieved anything.

Morrisons Supermarkets, the food retailer, has reported that its turnover rose 7 per cent to £17.7 billion for the year ended 29 January, 2012. Profit before tax was at £947 million compared to £874 million in the previous year and raised its total dividend by 11 per cent to 10.7 pence.

Schroders, an international asset management and private banking group, has reported a slight rise in its profit before tax at £407.3 million for the year ended 31 December, 2011 from £406.9 million a year earlier.

Glencore, the supplier of metals, minerals, energy and agriculture products has reported its preliminary 2011 results with revenues for the year ended 31 December 2011 at $186,152 million, a 28% increase compared to $144,978 million in 2010.

Britain’s FTSE 100 index ended lower 56.40 points or 1 per cent at 5,871.51 on Wednesday, though investors digested the latest second round of a European Central Bank long term liquidity operation.

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IBTimes UK looks back at the four months of the St Paul's camp in pictures.

'Chances are that we have been infiltrated by the police,' says St Paul's activist.

Nine men who plotted to bomb London Stock Exchange and build terrorist training camp sentenced.

Four men admitted to plot to blow up London Stock Exchange in the heart of the capital.

About 20 campaigners were detained while they tried to barge into a West End Office in central London.

As the Occupy London movement looks sets to continue in the courts, critics are suggesting that the protesters simply pack up and go home. But can a protester take this argument to Parliament by becoming an MP?

Occupy protesters camping outside St Paul's Cathedral may stay for good, say the anti-capitalists pitched there.

British police last night searched the Occupy the London Stock Exchange camp site after an "anonymous tip" reported seeing a firearm in one of the tents.

Canon Dr Giles Fraser, the chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, has resigned from his post at the church.

The ‘Occupy London’ demonstrating outside St. Pauls Cathedral who are protesting against capitalism may have to move and set up a base elsewhere if their following becomes too big.

Following the Anonymous Collective's ongoing support of the Occupy movement and the public presence of several "anons" at the Occupy London protest, analysts have questioned how long it will be before Anonymous' hacker-cell join their protesting brethren.

UK police have moved to stop the new Occupy the London Stock Exchange protest before it starts, blocking access to the movement's intended camp site.

IBTimes reporters at the scene of the new Occupy the London Stock Exchange protest, breakdown the key moments of the new movement’s opening hour bringing exclusive photos and testimonies direct from the scene.