Bright ideas to make your eyes sparkle…A massager for puffiness and a pill to soothe screen damage

Hay fever, excess screen time, even some medications can affect our eye health.  Here, Elizabeth Hawkes, a consultant ophthalmic and oculoplastic surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Trust and the Cadogan Clinic in London, assesses a range of eye health products. We then rated them.  A massager for puffiness, eye wash to ease hay … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Westminster Group

How to get airlines flying again after the coronavirus disruption is offering a big opportunity to AIM-listed Westminster Group. Fever screening equipment at airports is one of the remedies being suggested and that plays right into the hands of the security and technology group, according to chief executive Peter Fowler. ‘It’s our business,’ he says, … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Galileo Resources

Shares in Galileo Resources have enjoyed a significant boost in recent weeks as the company moved to consolidate its ground position in Zambia, where it holds licences for the Star Zinc and Kashitu projects. Galileo’s chief executive Colin Bird describes those developments more as a ‘mopping up exercise’ than as anything drastically new. A more … Read more

SMALL CAP IDEAS: Gaming Realms reaps rewards from strategy shift

Online casino game specialist Gaming Realms made a major change in direction two years ago when it switched from being an operator to a content developer and licensor. Management realised that with tighter regulation, rising taxation, and falling margins to compete in the operation of the games (Real Money) was becoming very tough for a … Read more

From Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place to No Really, I’m Fine & History Of Ideas: This week’s top podcasts

From Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place to No Really, I’m Fine, History Of Ideas with David Runciman and Easy Peasy Quarantini, this week’s top podcasts By Leaf Arbuthnot Published: 22:01 BST, 9 May 2020 | Updated: 12:29 BST, 10 May 2020 Happy Place Every week Fearne Cotton asks famous guests to tell her what happiness means … Read more

SMALL CAP IDEAS: Anglo Pacific’s chunky dividend looks more than safe

‘Anglo Pacific is in a very strong position currently,’ according to Julian Treger, the company’s chief executive. London’s only mining royalty company of any scale put out full-year results on April 7, and they were good, showing new records hit in terms of revenues and earnings, and highlighting that for a company of its size, … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Circassia Pharmaceuticals one for the recovery portfolio as sales pick up

Investors have had to be patient waiting for AIM-listed biotech Circassia Pharmaceuticals to come good, but things might now be turning in its favour. A recent trading update highlighted good sales growth while cash – another key metric for any early-stage biotech – was healthier than expected. Circassia was caught up last year in the … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Supermarket Income REIT

Property’s position as a safe source of income for investors has been thrown into disarray by the coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown of the UK economy. Companies are having to ponder very hard about postponing or even scrapping their dividends where only a few months ago it would have been unthinkable. Against that background, the … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: VR Education in prime spot as demand for virtual meetings lifts off

Conference organisers have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdowns, but one answer is to hold events online or even better in virtual reality. VR Education specialises in this type of technology and for the AIM-listed business, this period of enforced homeworking might prove to be a company maker. A month ago, for example, it ran … Read more

Steven Moffat reveals he WON’T return to Doctor Who because he’s ‘run out of ideas’

Steven Moffat reveals he WON’T return to Doctor Who to write story for Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord because he’s ‘run out of ideas’ By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 22:49 BST, 10 April 2020 | Updated: 23:35 BST, 10 April 2020 Steven Moffat has revealed he has no intention of returning to Doctor Who because … Read more