Models and collectibles group Hornby (HRN) has announced results for its year ended 31st March 2019, “pleased to report to our shareholders in an exciting but challenging period for our company”…

A tiny AIM investment company called Agronomics (ANIC) suddenly seems to have become very popular, but I think you’d have to be mad to be paying the current share price. If we look at it under its previous name of Port Erin Biopharma Investments (PEBI), before the recent change to Agronomics, it immediately becomes apparent that its main area of investments is in the pharmaceutical sector, with several listed and non-listed holdings...

In today's bearcast I comment on Quindell fraudster  Rob Terry in light of my earlier artice, I look at the FRC, PWC and Redcentric (RCN), ValiRx (VAL), Plutus Powergen (PPG) and at Neil Woodford and IP Group (IPO) which might be next to unravel as the contagion spreads.

For those of you who read The Times I bring you tomorrow’s news today: Neil Woodford’s Income Focus fund has continued its downward path. Yesterday I noted that it had suffered over 5% of redemptions in a single day, so how do the latest figures (to yesterday lunchtime) compare?

A “Permitting update” from Ascent Resources (AST) that “a report has appeared on a Slovenian government website that the partners appeal against the issuance of the permit to re-stimulate Pg-10 and Pg-11A has been denied by the Environment Ministry”. Uh oh…

You could not make this stuff up.  Watchstone (WTG), Quenron as was is trying to sue its founder, the king of the fraudsters, Rob Terry and others for breach of the share purchase agreement entered into by the Company with Mr Terry and others on 28 April 2011 in respect of the sale and purchase of shares in Watchstone Limited. But now Terry is seeking to counterclaim for £14.7 million. His claim is utterly ridiculous but will waste more of Watchstone’s dwindling cash pile.

Julie "lingerie on expenses" Meyer's 30th firm of lawyers, Tweeds, sent me a fascist lawyers letter 13 days ago as you can see HERE.  I have ,today, responded. If they were expecting a climbdown they will be disappointed.  My letter to lawyer Peter Mcgrath follows:

I know the Warren Buffett witticism that you should 'invest in a company that can be run by an idiot...because one day it probably will be' is worryingly close to the truth, but management does matter and there were two good insights in this regard in Wednesday's regulatory news statements…

Drug development & clinical trial services company Venn Life Sciences (VENN) has announced audited 2018 results, a placing and acquisition (in which Tom Winnifrith has shares) progress which has seen the shares restored to trading – and we have chatted with CEO Cathal Friel…

Hello, Share Slappers. Oh, the woes of writing about shares every day! I was 80% into writing a difficult piece extolling a motorcar-related company when doubts crept in. The company seems to be doing fine, but I became aware of some general headwinds out there. Also, I realised it would be hypocritical of me to indirectly boost the motor industry when I blame cars for air pollution and so refuse to invest in the sector myself...

Sorry for the late bearcast, I enjoyed a long chat with Reuters (see Roger Lawson not all the deadwood press hates me!) on when Neil Woodford's Income Focus Fund will be gated. It is a when not an if and I discuss what is going on under the surface. Then it is on to Pendragon (PDG) and BCA MarketPlace (BCA) which is more of a BIG SHORT - than ever. I look at Big Sofa (BST), Amphion (AMP) which looks like a zero and finally, in some detail, UK Oil & Gas (UKOG). Now back to the rising water levels at the Welsh Hovel.

Having fallen from more than 30p in early 2018 to a recent circa 4p-5p, shares in TechFinancials (TECH) were heading towards 13p earlier today. Cue a ‘speeding ticket’ RNS being required…

Attractions design, production and fit-out company Paragon Entertainment (PEL) has updated including, “during the audit of the FY 2018 financial statements it has become apparent that following the adoption of IFRS 15, some revenue (and therefore the profits associated with that revenue) that was previously expected to be recognisable in FY 2018 will now be recognised in FY 2019. This mainly relates to a shift in the programme and therefore revenue/profit recognition regarding the company's Kidzania Abu Dhabi project. Therefore the company provides the following update to the guidance previously notified in the Trading Update dated 6 March 2019”. But hasn’t there been similar from it before?...

I suppose Neil Woodford does not care about executive greed at Allied Minds (ALM), people in glass houses, etc, etc. But it seems as if Richard Bernstein of Crystal Amber is not quite such a happy camper and is particularly pissed that the fat cats refuse to discuss it with him. He has now taken to twitter to express his ire as you can see below.

More positive news from OptiBiotix Health (OPTI)?... The company has announced an exclusive license agreement for the commercialisation of, currently fully-owned subsidiary, ProBiotix's cholesterol management products CholBiome and CholBiome_x3 in Vietnam…

In April I wrote on automotive retailer Pendragon (PDG) update suggests ‘operational and financial prospects’ review ain’t going to be positive. The shares were then around 23p and are now falling well below 20p on the back of “Outcome of Financial & Operational Review”…

This morning’s data from Neil Woodford’s Income Focus Fund (IFF) will be a real worry for Nomates. As at midday yesterday, the NAV of the accumulation units had slipped slightly by 0.33% but the size of the fund plunged to £371.31 million.

A lot of the time there is very little that you can do to avoid bad news coming out of the blue, and even less so where the directors of the company have previously tried to make out that the situation is far more positive than the reality. That would definitely seem to be the case with African gold miner Avesoro Resources (ASO), and if anything proves that I should stick with my gut feeling when something doesn’t quite feel right about a company...

The company Vesuvius (VSVS) may have an ear-catching name, but it does something rather boring. Metal flow engineering doesn't set the heart racing, which is possibly why such a fancy name was chosen. Never mind, boring often translates to overlooked in Shareland...

Disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford has sent an email to IFA's begging them to not only stay with him but to send a templated email to their clients urging them to do the same. The Woodford email is below and, sadly, scores low on the veracity front.