asset sales and phil thomas, page-9

Right about what??? Sales and purchases by directors are reported as a matter of course and I haven't seen any disposal notices. So you are clearly ill informed.There is a whole lot of speculation about what deals could have been done but clearly this was the only/best deal on the table. Prior to the past few weeks the company had been very active in trying to fix its financial situation -but I guess a number of posters were holidaying on some other planet as the world was reduced to two major investment banks and previously dominant market players were taken over by banks-and in that process lots of people would have been looking at the company's assets.

THE AMAZING THING IS THAT A DEAL WAS DONE!!! CONGRATS TO DIRECTORS.

Given our regulatory environment the time it would have taken to do a shareholder deal would have made sure that a receiver was in charge of your former company. While PM may have a bar to invest the rest of the market may not be so enthusiastic-REALITY CHECK -roll the dice and lose the company??