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Wynnstay, the agricultural and specialist merchanting group, is delighted to announce the appointment of Toby Reich as Head of Seed at Wynnstay Agricultural Supplies. This appointment follows three other senior appointments made over the past nine months when David Howard joined the Group as Head of Dairy Services in May 2020, Tomi Jones was appointed as National Hardware Manager in February 2020 and Bryn Hughes was appointed as National Beef and Sheep Specialist towards the end of 2019….

Town Centre Securities Plc, the Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and London property investment, development and car park operator, today provides an update on the on-going impact of COVID-19 on its business and details of rent collections for the last quarter, being the final quarter of the Company's financial year ended 30 June 2020….

MJ Gleeson plc (GLE.L), the low-cost housebuilder and strategic land specialist, today provides an update for the year ended 30 June 2020 (“FY2020”). The Company will report its audited full year results on Monday, 14 September 2020….

NewRiver is today providing an update on its retail portfolio and Hawthorn Leisure pub business following the easing of lockdown restrictions across parts of the UK….

DWF, the global legal business, provides an update on current trading and the implementation of its strategic change programme….

Pennon Group plc (“Pennon”) is pleased to announce that it has completed the sale of Viridor to funds advised by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. for an enterprise value of £4.2 billion. As anticipated, the cash proceeds received by Pennon were £3.7 billion, after taking into account debt and debt-like items that remained with Viridor and customary transaction costs.

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AstraZeneca and MSD Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., US (MSD: known as Merck & Co., Inc. inside the US and Canada) today announced that Lynparza (olaparib) has been approved in the European Union (EU) for patients with germline BRCA-mutated (gBRCAm) metastatic pancreatic cancer….

Victrex plc, an innovative world leader in high performance polymer solutions, today releases its Interim Management Statement for the third quarter (Q3) covering the period 1 April to 30 June 2020….