The City's weather-watchers yesterday said it was time for shares in pothole fillers, travel companies, funeral providers and coat sellers to warm up on the back of the freezing conditions. The extended winter climate gave Peel Hunt's scribblers a chance to pick likely success stories. The Scottish road mender Breedon Aggregates, holiday groups Thomas Cook and Tui Travel, funeral provider Dignity and fashion company Supergroup were among their predicted winners.
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Friday 01 February 2013
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Sack the managers of failing hospitals, says Hunt
Sunday 06 January 2013
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Crouch stoops to conquer as Stoke make it four in a row
Sunday 18 December 2011
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Monday 14 November 2011
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Monday 04 July 2011
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Sunday 03 July 2011
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Wolves moving in right direction says owner Steve Morgan
Wednesday 29 June 2011
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Sunday 05 June 2011
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Olympic athletes among 250,000 who lost out on 2012 tickets
Thursday 02 June 2011
British athletes are to be given a second chance to buy tickets for the 2012 Olympic Games after some of the nation's leading medal hopes complained that they had lost out in the public ballot.
Toothless Birmingham pay the price with safety in sight
Monday 23 May 2011
Tottenham hotspur 2 Birmingham City 1
Blues and Blackpool drop on day of ups, downs and drama
Monday 23 May 2011
Wolves, Wigan and Blackburn survive on nerve-shredding final Premier League afternoon
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