Halloween Photo Article of angels and a wannabee Rachel Reeves pumpkin at the Welsh Hovel, Tom Winnifrith

boohoo (#BOO) – appoints Dan Finley, currently CEO of its Debenhams business, as group CEO

Challenger Energy (#CEG) – CFO Gagan Khurana “has resigned… for personal reasons, effective immediately”

Ondine Biomedical (#OBI) – proposed fundraising to raise “not less than” c.£8.5m at 8.5p per share

CAP-XX (#CPX) – £2.5m placing at 0.11p per share, up to a further £0.275m “retail offer”

ADM Energy (#ADME) – further results delay, states now expects to publish “in the coming weeks”

Active Energy (#AEG) – further loan, directors Max Aitken and Jason Zimmerman “step down” and appointment of Zeus Capital as joint broker

Emmerson (#EML) – engages litigation counsel and formally notifies Morocco government of investment dispute, “is examining various funding avenues”

Hummingbird Resources (#HUM) – “advanced discussions… to partially restructure its outstanding debt and to reschedule payments due”

Solid State (#SOLI) – acquisition of Q-Par Antennas USA for $1.5m and a further $0.5m earn-out

Cloudcoco (#CLCO) – completes disposal of its CloudCoCo Connect business

Georgina Energy (#GEX) – H1 £3.3m loss and net debt and even net current liabilities!

Georgina Energy (#GEX) – ‘seismic data reprocessing progress and resource potential review’, attempted ramptastic

Argent Biopharma (#RGT) – “Quarterly Report”, ended quarter with just “A$311k of cash on hand”, since raised a further just A$0.2 million

Vodafone (#VOD) – MoU for potential acquisition of parts of Telekom Romania Mobile Communications

Nexteq (#NXQ) – de-stocking and customer delays warning, Financial Controller Matt Staight to take over as CFO

Filtronic (#FTC) – “anticipate H1 to be stronger than H2, as the retrofit completes”, though confident of FY “in line with market expectations”

Synthomer (#SYNT) – “volumes continue to improve from historically low levels, although at a slower rate than during Q1 and Q2”

Haleon (#HLN) – Q3 organic revenue +6.1% YoY, “well on track to deliver our full-year 2024 guidance”

Kainos (#KNOS) – now expects FY revenue “moderately below current market consensus with the majority of the reduction flowing through to adjusted PBT”